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To: Cronos

When a Christian gets to heaven, will he/she see all three, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, or will the Christian see only one, God???


472 posted on 06/02/2011 8:14:30 AM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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iscool: When a Christian gets to heaven, will he/she see all three, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, or will the Christian see only one, God???

Thank you for asking me how we Christians (lutherans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Catholics, Orthodox, Methodists, etc.) will see when we get to heaven

Apocalypse 4:3-6 tells us

[3] And he that sat, was to the sight like the jasper and the sardine stone; and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. [4] And round about the throne were four and twenty seats; and upon the seats, four and twenty ancients sitting, clothed in white garments, and on their heads were crowns of gold.

[5] And from the throne proceeded lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and there were seven lamps burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.

[6] And in the sight of the throne was, as it were, a sea of glass like to crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind

this is a description of the throne occupied by God in His three hypostases

This is further described in Apocalypse 5:6

And I saw: and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the ancients, a Lamb standing as it were slain, having seven horns and seven eyes: which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth
But remember 1 Tim 6:16
[16] Who only hath immortality, and inhabiteth light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen
we may never be able to understand completely the enormity that is the Godhead, but we can focus on the Lamb, Jesus Christ, the Son, the Word of God
478 posted on 06/02/2011 8:46:36 AM PDT by Cronos (Palin, Cain, Jindal)
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