Christian nondualism? Nondual Christianity? The Trinitarian Option for Progressive Christianity.

[Ocelot II]

4. I've always figured that the concept of the Trinity was just the slippery argument

the Council of Nicaea came up with to keep from painting themselves into a theological corner. Christianity, conceptually and traditionally a spin-off from Judaism, was supposed to be monotheistic. But if Jesus was also supposed to be divine, that might mean there was more than one god. So now that you've got at least one extra god to try fit into that monotheistic structure somehow, what do you do with him? You come up with a doctrine where Jesus and God are kind of the same entity, along with the Holy Spirit, whatever that is, even though Jesus was also a man, at least for awhile. But as long as you've got a single divine entity that is comprised of three god-entities, you've still got your monotheism and you're off the hook and you don't have to argue that Christianity is a whole new religion when it was supposed to be the fulfillment of the old one.

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.