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series of exegetical works remarkable for industry and ingenuity, but meager in solid results. He considered the Bible a living organism, consisting of three elements which answer to the body, soul, and spirit of a man, after the Platonic psychology. Accordingly, he attributed to the scriptures a three-fold sense; (note that he had a triadic view of even the Bible. Remember Aristotle’s Platonic doctrine: “we (Pagans) make further use of the number three in the worship of the Gods.”) (1) a somatic, literal, or historical sense, furnished immediately by the meaning of the words, but only serving as a veil for the higher idea; (2) a psychic or moral sense, animating the first, and serving for general edification; (3) a pneumatic or mystic and ideal sense, for those who stand on the high ground of (Pagan/Kabblah/Gnostic) philosophical knowledge. In the application of this theory he shows the same tendency as Philo, to spiritualize away the letter of scripture, especially where the plain historical sense seems unworthy, as in the history of David’s crimes; and instead of simply bringing out the sense of the Bible, he puts into it all sorts of foreign ideals and irrelevant fancies. But this allegorizing suited the taste of the age, and, with his fertile mind and imposing learning, Origen was the exegetical oracle of the early (Catholic) church, till his orthodoxy fell into disrepute.”
On page 792 of the same book we find: “He (Origen) even goes further in this (hidden mystic meaning) direction than the Gnostics, who everywhere saw transcendental, unfathomable mysteries.”
We are told that the Trinity is a Mystery. It is a Gnostic Pagan allegorical mystical theory that is read or forced upon the Scriptures. It is therefore a baseless irrelevant mythology. Many have lost their minds and souls over this unfathomable mystery that comes from ancient Mystery Religions. The real one God will not harm anyone trying to understand Him better, nor will he destroy any soul that refuses to believe in three Gods. Yet, modern-day Platonic Gnostics promote this vague contradictory metaphysical allegorical lie. Many of us choose to deal with reality and not old or new age mysticism.
Dictionary of Theological Terms by Alan Cairns, 2002, page 494. “Dr. South said that if you try to comprehend the doctrine of the Trinity, you may lose your mind, and if you deny it you will lose your soul.” [How sad. Believe in this mystery because we say so!]
Oxford Companion to the Bible, 1993, By Dr. Metzger and Dr. Coogan, page 783. “While there are other N. T. texts were God, Jesus, and the Spirit are referred to in the same passage (e.g., Jude 20-21), it is important to avoid reading the Trinity into places were it does not appear. An example is 1 Peter 1:1-2.”
The Triune God, by Edmund Fortman, “The Old Testament tells us nothing explicitly or by necessary implication of a triune God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There is no evidence that any sacred writer even suspected the existence of a trinity within the Godhead. Even to see in the Old Testament, suggestions or foreshadowing or veiled signs of the trinity of persons, is to go beyond the words and intent of the sacred writers. The New Testament writers gave us no formal or formulated doctrine of the trinity, no explicit teaching that in one God there are three co-equal divine persons. Nowhere do we find any Trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the
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