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To: OneWingedShark
Then why do you condemn me for saying that I truly don’t understand the trinity?

Dood, you need to read the words that are written. I'm on you for presumption. Saying you didn't know which is which is like saying Jesus never claimed to be God in the flesh.

475 posted on 06/03/2010 9:42:05 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: papertyger

So, is the Trinty three persons?
If not, then why would Jesus pray to the Father? Why would the Father say “This is my son, in whom I am well pleased”? How could the world exist without the Creator to sustain it during the days Jesus was dead and in the tomb? How could it be said that Jesus being in nature God didn’t consider equality with God to be grasped? {This ONLY makes sense if they are distinct; otherwise it would be like you saying that I’m trying to be equal with myself and, by definition, an object is always equal with itself.}

If so (that the Trinty are/is three persons) then:
Why is there only one God, as the ten Commandments prohibit [worship of] other gods?
Why does John say that the word was with God, and was God (that is being the same-thing)?
James 2:19 — “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well; the devils also believe, and tremble.”

It is not something that I understand, metaphysically. I put no claim on it other than that I want to ask God about it when I see Him, face to face; as Paul said: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” [1 Corinthians 13:12]

{The New Living Translation puts it this way:
Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.}

Perhaps, as I said before, the truth is that both are true: like light being a wave and a particle both.


481 posted on 06/03/2010 10:06:59 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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