[blue-duncan]

I think I've found the hymn that explains this knotty theological conumdrum.


www.ziplo.com/grandpa.htm

[Mad Dawg]

LOL. I don't even have to go to the link.

Of course, referring that, ah, hymn to the doctrine of the Trinity ... well, let's just say I hear thunder and am taking cover. Where exactly do you live?

;)

The last time I said this, Blogger "laughed me to scorn", but I've taken my antidepressants and can handle it, I think. I may sniffle a little.

I propose: The copula in Trinitarian language is not commutative. That is to say that the statement "Jesus is God" does not imply the statement, "God is Jesus", and similarly to say "The Father is God" does not imply "God is the Father". This ain't geometry.

Another way to say this is that in the scheme I laid out before, to wit:

• The Father is God.
• The Son is God.
• The Holy Spirit is God.
• The Father is not the Son or the Holy Spirit.
• The Son is not the Father or the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit is not the Father or the Son.

it starts getting tricky when you isolate one statement from the others.

But if the undivided Church goes with Theotokos, I'm sure not going to argue.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

LOL. Sounds suspiciously like Bill Clinton singing. I've wondered what he was up to since he's been out of sight for awhile. Maybe he's hanging out with Garth Brooks.