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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: papertyger

I told you I *don’t* understand the concept; not really.
I’m a programmer and to put it into object-oriented programming terms:
is the reality something like:
type
Father = interface; ...
Son = interface; ...
Spirit = interface; ...
God = object(Father, Son, spirit) ...;
{This is the 1 God approach; “Hear oh Israel, the lord your God is *one* God”}
OR
type
God = {abstract} Object {the nature of God} ;
Father = Object(God) ... ;
Son = Object(God) ... ;
Spirit = Object(God) ... ;
{This is the three-gods approach; “Hear oh Israel, the lord your *God(Elohim)* is one God”; ‘m’ is the pluralizer in Hebrew and it is said that it is on the term for ‘God’ to show respect/importance... it also underscores that the Father is not the Son and neither is the Spirit.}

But these models are human constructs trying to explain something that I *don’t* understand: the Trinity. (Which is not to say that I don’t accept it.)

How would you explain the trinity?


456 posted on 06/03/2010 8:53:38 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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