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To: annalex
This is the scriptural building block with which we build our concept of the eternal Holy Trinity

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

36 posted on 04/06/2005 11:36:30 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan

The Trinity is not explicitly stated in the Scripture. It is something the Church constructed as an intellectual effort, from the revealed truths. The revealed truths are mostly in the temporal domain. For example, the begetting of the Son is not described in the scripture as a primordeal event, Rather, it is postulated "I was there in the beginning" and then the Christmas incarnation, which is a temporal event, explains the relation between the Father and the Son. Similarly, the Holy Ghost is postulated as a primordeal person in the Genesis, and then a temporal event, the Pentacost, explains the relation between the Son (with the Father implied) and the Holy Ghost.


37 posted on 04/06/2005 12:02:30 PM PDT by annalex
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