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To: sevenbak
None of those speak to anyone being one in substance. They are one, just like He told the Apostles to be one. Further, there are several references to them being 2 distinct personages, but one in purpose and Godhead.

The Protestant view is that the 3 are 1. In other words, there are 3......but they are one. That's why the Bible describes them both ways. In our human form, we cannot understand it but we don't need to understand it. We simply acknowledge that God can do such things.

If we take your position that they are of one accord rather than one, it would seem to imply an order. God is #1 therefore Jesus is a lessor god or a Holy Personage. That's an Gnostic belief IIRC.

434 posted on 05/09/2008 9:58:34 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy
Yes, the trinity view and the LDS view of the Godhead are quite different, as I've already pointed out.

This further illustrates what I'm talking about:

Jesus said, Whom do men say that I am?

And his disciples answered and said, Some say you are John the Baptist returned from the dead; others say Elias, or other of the old prophets.

And Jesus answered and said, But whom do you say that I am?

Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Logos, existing in the Father as His rationality and then, by an act of His will, being generated, in consideration of the various functions by which God is related to his creation, but only on the fact that Scripture speaks of a Father, and a Son, and a Holy Spirit, each member of the Trinity being coequal with every other member, and each acting inseparably with and interpenetrating every other member, with only an economic subordination within God, but causing no division which would make the substance no longer simple.”

And Jesus answering, said, “What?”

852 posted on 05/09/2008 11:48:40 PM PDT by sevenbak (1 Corinthians 2:14)
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