Section: Clarifying the Contradiction in the Christians’ Creed
They say, “God is one, the Creator is one, the Lord is one.” In itself this is a true statement. Yet they overturn it with the words of their own creed:
“We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, true God from true God, of the same essence as His Father, equal to the Father in essence.”
Here they have affirmed two gods; then, when they add the Holy Spirit as a third god and declare that he too is to be worshipped, they end up affirming three gods—while still insisting, “We affirm only one God.” This is a blatant contradiction, a merging of two opposites: affirmation and denial at once.
For this reason some rational thinkers have said: “Almost every human doctrine can be conceived, except the doctrine of the Christians, because those who formulated it never understood what they were saying. They spoke out of ignorance and combined in their speech two mutually exclusive propositions.”
One remarked, “If 10 Christians were to gather, they would part holding 11 different opinions.” Another said, “If you asked a Christian man, his wife, and his son about their ‘monotheism,’ the man would give one answer, the wife another, and the son a third.”