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To: verga

You said:
They are three separate but Equal persons. They are three persons with one nature. This nature is fully Divine. This means that all three are omnipotent (all powerful) and omniscient (all knowing).

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I have trouble accepting this. They cannot all three be omnipotent or one would not have power over the others.
They cannot all be omniscient if one of them knows something the other does not know, such as when the end of the world will be.


346 posted on 05/30/2016 1:13:29 PM PDT by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: JAKraig
If you believe Jesus performed actual miracles then it follows such occurrences were sourced in the ‘seed’ which remained within Him ... He IS God with us. All we are able to see of God is where He intersects our limits well, as Jesus. [John 14] The Bible says that GOD made Himself a bit lower than the Angels, to come into our limits well to teach us and sacrifice Himself for us. Let me explain that the following way:

If you are a three spatial dimension being and you emptied yourself of one of the dimensions, say height, what could you sense of a three dimensional object in your two dimensional state of only length and width?

348 posted on 05/30/2016 1:35:54 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: JAKraig
I have trouble accepting this.

Too much Mormon influence in your thinking.

397 posted on 05/30/2016 5:49:11 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: JAKraig
They cannot all three be omnipotent or one would not have power over the others.

Rock, paper, scissors...

398 posted on 05/30/2016 5:49:48 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: JAKraig
I have trouble accepting this. They cannot all three be omnipotent or one would not have power over the others.

The power is "shared" equally and their wills are in full accord. When Jesus says that the Father "sent" Him or that He will "send the Spirit", it is not to be understood as a command, but rather as a cooperation.

They cannot all be omniscient if one of them knows something the other does not know, such as when the end of the world will be.

Now we are getting in to the issue of the hypostasis, which I was really trying to avoid. but here goes: Just as God is three persons with one nature, Jesus is one person with two natures. He has a fully divine nature and at the same time a fully human nature.

Make sure you understand I am not saying that He is demigod, half god half man. He is both fully human and fully divine at the exact same time. When He says that only the Father knows the exact time, it is His human nature that says this.

I fully expect the prots to make some snide comments, but I will try to clarify for you if need be.

412 posted on 05/30/2016 7:05:21 PM PDT by verga (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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