(06-12-2019, 01:50 AM)Jason Wrote:(06-10-2019, 08:33 PM)Jude86 Wrote: Well, that's comforting. I'm willing to accept that Jews and Christians conceive of the same God differently--but to accept that he's a different God ENTIRELY is heresy and anathema to me and all right-thinking Catholics.
I guess my opinion would be even more than ἀνάθεμα, since I think that every person has his own idiosyncratic concept of deity. I would argue that there are as many gods as there are people, each person conceiving of God in different terms. Since Christians generally believe in a God that exists in three persons, they worship a different generic concept of God than the Jewish generic concept of God, which is absolute unity without "substance vs. person."
Just wanna add as a tiny thing that that's not really what Catholic Christians exactly believe. I know the substance vs. person thing is a bit . . . choppy, but the Christian concept is one of absolute unity. We (and I mean we Catholics) would say that God is indivisible, that God has no "parts" and that the persons of the Trinity do not constitute a mathematical equation where God is divided into three equal parts. Just wanted to add that on, because the Trinity is a Christian teaching that is so logically incoherent (and intentionally so) that you'll find most Christians will generally ignore the doctrine and simply say that they believe in one God because at base, that's what we believe in: One, indivisible, single God.