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To: adiaireton8

Explain how God can be 3 persons and yet is One.


1,898 posted on 12/18/2006 10:56:33 AM PST by Blogger
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To: Blogger
Explain how God can be 3 persons and yet is One.

Short answer: the respect in which God is one is not the respect in which He is three. He is one in being (contra polytheism), but three in hypostasis (contra Sabellianism).

-A8

1,901 posted on 12/18/2006 11:04:19 AM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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Explain how God can be 3 persons and yet is One

Don't ask questions you can't answer yourself.

1,916 posted on 12/18/2006 12:03:55 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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