Trinity

    I was an adult, over 40, when I realized Christianity believed Jesus is a god, the concept of the Trinity, 3 gods in one: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. That was because religion was quasi-banned in communist Romania, and my grandmothers (my mentors for religious matters) did not want to go to that sophistication and explain it. So, what was in my head was that Jesus was the son of God, but a man.
    That was a huge surprise. If Jesus is a God who walked the Earth 2000 years ago, why did He not write his message in a book or carve it in stone that no one could hide or destroy? For everybody to see it? He could if indeed he was a God. My logical explanation was that He did not want to leave proof of his goodness or was not a god.
      I was crushed. So, I read about the Trinity and found that the concept did not exist in early Christianity but became the Christian dogma only after the Council of Nicaea in the 4th century, like a business decision.
     I have already read the Bible, and I have reread it.
    And I found this in Mark 10:18: And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.”
    I remember this because it hit me in the groin, kind of like Jesus saying He is not good and he is a different entity than God the Father. Whatever significance you assign to “good,” “not good” is synonymous with not being perfect, so Jesus is not a god. And there are so many other places I do not remember now where Jesus suggests he is not a god. Or places raising questions like how can a god die?
      I was not ready yet to deny faith. I only concluded that the Bible translation is not accurate and should not be fully trusted, or the church wanted to portray Jesus as God for a tricky agenda of some sort.
      Where am I leading with this?
     Maybe I should have mentioned at the beginning of my series of articles that I am now an agnostic: Maybe there is something out there but I do not know what, and no religion could explain it.
     I will explain my transformation in the next articles.