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Protestant direct access, egalitarianism, and justification by faith create new problems: confusion around the Trinity, sectarian chaos, and anxiety over whether one truly believes.
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Trinity
The central Christian problem in this lecture is why Jesus had to die: Paul ties it to original sin and forgiveness, but the later doctrine that Jesus is God makes divine self-sacrifice conceptually puzzling.
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Jiang says Newton was part of a secret society with John Locke and others who saw themselves as the true church and rejected the Trinity in favor of one God.
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The central Christian problem in this lecture is why Jesus had to die: Paul ties it to original sin and forgiveness, but the later doctrine that Jesus is God makes divine self-sacrifice conceptually puzzling.
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Jiang presents Muhammad's rejection of the Trinity as a liberation for persecuted Christians who already found the doctrine nonsensical.
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"...God directly. The problem is that Christians believe in the Holy Trinity, okay, the Holy Trinity, right? God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are..."
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"...Because if you don't really know God because of the Holy Trinity, how do you know you really believe in God, right? The Catholics..."
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"...in his notes, he was very clear. He thought the Holy Trinity was nonsense. There's only one God, OK?"
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"What did God create us? What is our responsibility to God? Okay? And the last question is, how can we best worship God? Meaning,..."
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"And because we disobeyed God, God had no choice but to banish us from the Garden of Eden. Okay? And so, why did Jesus..."
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"...who lived about the second century, he argued for the Holy Trinity, which is that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are separate but..."
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"Allah knows and you do not know. Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a monotheist, a Muslim. Okay? So,..."
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"...this is very important, is that Muhammad is saying the Holy Trinity, the idea, is just nonsense."
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