Post by david on Dec 11, 2020 18:13:59 GMT
Dear friends,
The Third Person of the Christian Trinity is used by the Goddess Christians to prove that a Goddess is part of Christian teachings, which is justified by the Greek name, Hagios Pneuma, pneuma being a feminine noun. This requires a closer examination.
Pneuma is the Greek word for spirit, and because it is a feminine noun, it has to be used in that form in the Gospels, but there is a problem. Hagios, which is the Greek word for holy, is a masculine adjective. It could have been feminised by changing the case ending quite easily, but they did not. Why the contradiction? They could have masculinised the word pneuma quite easily by chasing the case ending, so why did they not?
The Gospel authors were writing in a foreign language when they wrote in Greek, and the Gospels contain some incorrect use, of which the most serious is that it is the word for frankincense tree, and not frankincense, that is used for the gift of the Magi to Jesus. The explanation for this is quite simple. Because their command of Greek was imperfect, they would have been sensitive to the accusation of using a word incorrectly.
The whole point of the Trinity is that it contains three inter-related terms, but to conceive of the Third Person as a Goddess does not inter-relate it with the other two Persons.
Taking all this into consideration, it is quite clear that the Gospel authors were thinking in masculine terms when they conceived of the Trinity.
May She be with you,
David.
The Third Person of the Christian Trinity is used by the Goddess Christians to prove that a Goddess is part of Christian teachings, which is justified by the Greek name, Hagios Pneuma, pneuma being a feminine noun. This requires a closer examination.
Pneuma is the Greek word for spirit, and because it is a feminine noun, it has to be used in that form in the Gospels, but there is a problem. Hagios, which is the Greek word for holy, is a masculine adjective. It could have been feminised by changing the case ending quite easily, but they did not. Why the contradiction? They could have masculinised the word pneuma quite easily by chasing the case ending, so why did they not?
The Gospel authors were writing in a foreign language when they wrote in Greek, and the Gospels contain some incorrect use, of which the most serious is that it is the word for frankincense tree, and not frankincense, that is used for the gift of the Magi to Jesus. The explanation for this is quite simple. Because their command of Greek was imperfect, they would have been sensitive to the accusation of using a word incorrectly.
The whole point of the Trinity is that it contains three inter-related terms, but to conceive of the Third Person as a Goddess does not inter-relate it with the other two Persons.
Taking all this into consideration, it is quite clear that the Gospel authors were thinking in masculine terms when they conceived of the Trinity.
May She be with you,
David.