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To: Kartographer

The Holy Trinity puts God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Ghost as three separate entities but one as a whole. It makes no logic but it doesn’t have to. its justification thru faith. they are all equal yet the two were begotten by God.


20 posted on 08/14/2015 10:50:22 PM PDT by RightLady (Walker's my Man)
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To: RightLady
One entity having one person is not the rule: it's just what we're used to.

The Trinity is three separate persons but one God.

We know this through Christ's revelation, but why is it the case?

It may help to realise that the Trinity is the perfect example of Love. Whenever we say 'God is Love' we are proclaiming the reality of what God is.

But if God was one person, how could He be Love? Love is between persons.

There is only one God. But God is Love. Therefore God is more than one person. God is not alone!

Even if we didn't have Christ's explicit revelation of the Trinity we would have to imagine at least a duality of persons 'within' God. And Christ has revealed who these two persons are: God the Father and God the Son.

These divine persons love each other so fully, so completely that their love is also a person, of completely equal status, being and personhood to the Father and the Son. This person is the Holy Spirit.


The closest thing on earth to the Triune reality of God is the Family. The Trinity is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. the Family is Father, Mother, Child.

It's not a perfect analogy, but we can see how the love between two persons in the family becomes a third person, and how a family is incomplete - indeed we can't call it a family - unless it contains (at least) three persons.


Parenthically: this is also why our enemies are always attacking the Family. The Family is the image of the Trinity, so the Devil keeps trying to efface it.

Indeed, we have trouble thinking of the Family as an image of God's love precisely because of this ceaseless assault. Our society is littered with broken images of the Trinity: broken homes, broken marriages, the families killed by the hellish machinations of Planned Parenthood and so on.


It's worth reading Thomas Aquinas on the Trinity and about the nature of personhood and Godhood. Aquinas belonged to a time of intense coherent thought that we moderns can barely understand, so I recommend approaching him through his commentators. Chesterton's biography "Thomas Aquinas" is a good first step.

Hope this was helpful.

22 posted on 08/15/2015 1:10:34 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: RightLady
The Holy Trinity puts God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Ghost as three separate entities but one as a whole. It makes no logic but it doesn’t have to. its justification thru faith. they are all equal yet the two were begotten by God.

A useful analogy I've found is that it's like a person in a two dimensional world trying to explain or even comprehend a three or four dimensional being passing through their two dimensions. Now imagine the being having infinite dimensions.

26 posted on 08/15/2015 5:49:50 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016 - Regulation)
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To: RightLady

Jesus is God. God said so in Isaiah 43:10
I read chapters 41-43 to grasp the context. The sentence before is crucial to understanding. In 42:1 He talks about His servant, “My chosen one in whom My soul delights. Continuing through to 43 God is still talking about His servant and says in verse 10:
“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,
And My servant whom I have chosen,
In order that you may know and believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
And there will be none after Me.”

Repeat...”And understand that I am He.” New American Standard Version.


28 posted on 08/15/2015 10:34:14 AM PDT by huldah1776
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