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To: Alamo-Girl; betty boop; TXnMA; Quix; Texas Songwriter
I aver that the Father was not sent, Jesus was sent, the Holy Spirit was sent.

Correct. But that is hardly Trinitarian. Christian dogma of the Trinity posits that the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are co-equal and co-eternal. The Bible speaks of the Son and the Spirit as errand boys of the Father; that's hardly co-equality. It's called suboridnaitonalist theology that is incompatible with the Trinitarian theology. It was actually taught by practically all early Christian apologists—until the first Nicene Council (325 AD).

812 posted on 09/29/2010 8:35:59 PM PDT by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: kosta50; betty boop; TXnMA; Quix; Texas Songwriter
The terms co-equal and co-eternal are irrelevant to me.

Indeed the term "eternal" is something I do not use in reference to God because the term basically means time without end. Instead I use the term "timeless" because time is part of the Creation and not a property of or restriction on the Creator of it.

814 posted on 09/29/2010 8:42:13 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: kosta50

Very acute analysis Kosta, well done. As I’ve read the comments it seems that we are having trouble reconciling eternal beings using temporal understanding. I feel that the Trinity was a reaction to imposed monotheism (the Jewish understanding) and spiritual superiority to physical (the Greek understanding). Would you comment on that?


848 posted on 10/05/2010 1:34:29 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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