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Yahweh was originally a weather god, not unlike Zeus, well before being interwoven with El during proto-Judaism [1]. Any "Greek period" of the eventual Jewish f
by RhysU 3y ago
Yahweh was originally a weather god, not unlike Zeus, well before being interwoven with El during proto-Judaism [1]. Any "Greek period" of the eventual Jewish faith, to which you refer, ended certainly by their complete adoption of monotheism. Judaism came "pre-Greeked".
That particular Council affirmed that Christianity's God is triune by expressly rejecting Arianism. God sending God to do things God could already do is heavily a consequence of the trinity [2], hence why Nicaea was a big deal theologically.
Whether a monotheistic God is unary, binary, trinary, etc has implications that seem sufficiently fundamental that no major religion will abandon its chosen view.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity
- 082349872349872 3y agoUnfortunately all the interpretations of Yahweh at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh#Periods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh#Periods fall under the Zeus/Cancer/Aries timeframe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761574 ... > Whether a monotheistic God is unary, binary, trinary, etc... In particular, Arianism would've allowed a supernatural of characteristic zero, while trinitarianism demands characteristic two.