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To: Judith Anne; Dr. Eckleburg
And Scripture tells us Christ said, "I and the Father are One." "Whosoever hath seen me, hath seen the Father."

The heresy of Modalism denies the individual personhood of the 3 PERSONS of the trinity THREE SEPARATE PERSONS YET ONE..

7,307 posted on 09/28/2010 5:05:13 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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Yeah. Mary was only the mother of Jesus’s human nature. Right?


7,310 posted on 09/28/2010 5:07:24 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: RnMomof7; Judith Anne; Dr. Eckleburg
The heresy of Modalism denies the individual personhood of the 3 PERSONS of the trinity THREE SEPARATE PERSONS YET ONE..

Not persons. Hypostais is not a "person." Modalism comes form the Latin mistranslation of Greek into persona, which in Latin means a mask. Thus, some Latin Chirtsians believed God was merely carrying different masks as he revealed himself. Unfortunately, western Christianity never corrected the mistranslation and so "persona" became a theatrical term in English, while the Greek term hypostasis became a "person."

Literally, hypostasis (sub+stasis) means something that stands on its own, i.e. sub-stantia, something that exists on its own, in Greek o ΩΝ (literaly the existence), a self existing or hypostatic reality. There is no personality imputed or implied in it. It's an insult to God to call him a schizophrenic deity, a multiple personality God.

Of course, Latin managed to complicate things further by (illogically) incorrectly translating ousia into substantia (or substance, matter), further corruption the concepts, especially given the fact that ousia in Greek means essence or nature and not necessarily matter.

7,374 posted on 09/28/2010 7:27:56 PM PDT by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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