Dialogue With Skeptic (Part 1)

If you poke around Instagram & other social media websites, you’ll find that any number of quasi-pagan & pagan qua pagan individuals are engaged in a propaganda campaign that is trotting out Parallelomania/Pagan Copycat Theory and asserting that Christianity derives Trintarianism from one or more similar ideas found in any number of other religions.  Essentially Skeptic is asserting that if these 3 pseudo-deities are arranged together, then that’s a trinity.   

Remembering the definition of “Trinity” let’s put that to the test. 

Q1. Are these triads ontologically perichoretic?  No.  

Q2. Are they 3 separate beings or 3 people who are members of the same being?   Three separate beings.   

Q3.  Are their monarchial dominions territorial or universal?  Territorial.  

Q4.  Do they go to war with each other?  Yes.   

Q5.  Do they behave transactionally relative to each other &/or their followers? Yes.  

Q6.  Do they do suzerain covenants?  Maybe.   

Q7.  Are they both transcendent & immanent simultaneously?  No, they are either one or the other. 

Q8. Are they always simultaneously intense & immense in relation to the created order?  

No, they are usually one or the other but never always & in the same measure. 

Skeptic, like the myths you cite, you describing a triad at best, not a **trinity.** By way of contrast, the Bible correctly understood describes the antithesis of a pagan triad. 

2 - It isn’t enough to state that writers are affected by their culture.  For this claim to succeed, you need to actually demonstrate **from the myths to which you have, at best, generally pointed** the truth of the theory. Otherwise, you sound like one of the nut hutch who believe that Zeus impregnating Danae is a virgin birth, even though sex was involved. 

3 - James, Paul, Peter, John, John Mark, Barnabas, Matthew, Silas (Cleopas) & Jude (Thaddeus) were all Jews.  Why would they write material draw from paganism? 

Well educated Jews 2000 years ago were times well versed in Greco-Roman philosophy — but they despised Greco-Roman religion.  Why would the Jewish people to whom they wrote & ministered find their teaching at all attractive if they didn’t recognize the writers as I AM worshippers?  Reading/listening to you one begins to think you believe people 2000 years ago were as gullible &, at times, as self-reinforcingly ignorant as you yourself are when sitting in front of a microphone.  

Where is there any record of Jewish people accusing Christians of pagan copycat theory?  If so, how did their foils respond? 

4 - Basically, you are appealing to your skepticism & copycat theory to underwrite a math equation in your mind then dismiss the New Testament (and the Bible in general) & what it teaches. You have no real evidence that rises above yet another conspiracy theory. 

Imagine someone sees lights in his house in the dark of night, at around 4:30 AM.  There is no special effects crew.  There are no aliens. He has had  dreams as vivid as walking next door to a neighbors’ home.  They are as sharp and colorful as the Wizard of Oz in HD.  

He starts  hearing voices that sound like angels and people he knows, so he talks to a Village Skeptic who is a psychologist or psychiatrist.  The Therapeutic Skeptic sits there and diagnoses him with a delusional disorder because his commitment to metaphysical naturalism outweighs his obligation to produce an evidentiary argument to prove to him that these supernatural events did not happen.   Skepticism dictates that there is a naturalistic explanation, ergo the client is delusional.  

Skeptic thinks this is all really improbable, so he does some math in his head and dismisses the client.  The next night, as the client goes to bed, a white window as large as a TV screen opens & appears for 5 or 6 seconds.  He see it, & he goes to sleep knowing that Skeptic committed medical malpractice.  He diagnosed his client based on a math equation, not actual evidence.  That’s all you really are, Kid.