<@&588707615643795456> Daily Question✝️

- Should extra-biblical texts be considered? That is other works not included in the Bible and/or canon. Example would be the book of Enoch or Jasher. Should they be tossed out? Examined? Believed? This also doesn’t just apply to Christianity but other religions.

I don't see any benefit to not knowing what's in a book

probably for greater context, sure

The bible is not the sole authority on christianity

Donno about that statement

The Dead Sea scrolls tho

To an extent god is the ultimate authority

Donno about those

How can the bible be the sole authority, it was compiled by 12 men

The church is an authority

No.

Who were assigned to do it

Simple as.

Also no

Ultimately, you are your the authority in determining what is true.

The church is based on the Bible

Don't determine it wrong.

The trinity isnt mentioned in the bible, yet the church preaches it as fact

Trinity as in the connections?

God is said to be life, light and love in passages within the bible. That is a trinity of sorts

Yes but it is never explicitly described as the trinity, because it was agreed upon by churchmen

God is not just the trinity but the trinity is God.

Well yes

As a method of understanding the holy spirit

The trinity is derived from understanding the Bible and determining the essence of each element

Jesus declares himself to be the light, making him satisfy one third of the components of God described within the bible

The holy spirit could be life
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/life

http://www.byzant.com/Mystical/Kabbalah/Veils.aspx

The trinity makes more sense from the standpoint of kabbalah and the three nothings

That's just trying to turn Christianity into Satanism

God is being, he is not nothing.

"I am", he is in the most simple terms Being

If he was privated from being he would be imperfect

He would be evil

Which is why he is not

Negative existence is not the same as being truly* nothing

It's actually a high state of potential energy.

The negative trinity is: nothing, limitless nothing, and limitless light

God has nothing in potential

He is purely actual

Or else you must argue he is not immutable and such