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To: Cronos
1. The three persons are called God. Good. But where is the description of the Trinity as ONE God, three hypostases? Are these 3 separate persons in your opinion or just facets/views of the same person? Where do they have the same essence, the same homousis?

Phil 2:5-7 (NIV)
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

We have it written that the Son is of the same nature as God; what indicates that the Holy Spirit of not of this nature as well?

As for if the trinity is three aspects/facets of one 'person' or three separate 'persons' I honestly don't know. Maybe the truth/actuality is as strange as the nature of Christ: being both man and God. (Like light being BOTH a wave and a particle in Physics.) ...perhaps both are true.

Perhaps it's better that we, as finite people, cannot truly wrap our minds around an infinite God.

451 posted on 06/03/2010 8:28:54 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark
As for if the trinity is three aspects/facets of one 'person' or three separate 'persons' I honestly don't know.

Then you have absolutely NO business debating ANYONE on Christian orthodoxy! God in three persons: Blessed Trinity.

452 posted on 06/03/2010 8:39:08 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: OneWingedShark

what indicates that the Holy Spirit of not of this nature as well? —> what indicates in scripture that The Holy SPirit IS? You’ve put it correctly where you say that we as finite people, cannot truly wrap our minds around an infinite God.


454 posted on 06/03/2010 8:50:30 AM PDT by Cronos (Origen(200AD)"The Church received from theApostles the tradition of giving Baptism even to infants")
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