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To: drstevej
Ah, but you took my figurative language literally. Your point was, from the first, a literal one: Christ can't be physically in two places at the same time--though you don't deny he can be virtually present everywhere. My rejoinder was: he can. Of course it makes no sense--but neither does the Trinity or his own Divinity. Some things we believe because the Church has always taught this, from very ancient times.
448 posted on 05/20/2003 9:12:19 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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To: ultima ratio
***Ah, but you took my figurative language literally.***

Note the irony of a Catholic telling a Protestant this!
449 posted on 05/20/2003 9:17:21 PM PDT by drstevej (FR token Protestant)
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To: ultima ratio
The Holy Trinity makes perfect sense. Think of the Trinity along the lines of being similar to water--same substance, three phases, one identity. Water as ice, water as liquid, and water as vapor are all still water, but each one possesses different characteristics. All are one in the same, three phases, one substance. That is how I resolved the concept in my own mind.
464 posted on 05/20/2003 10:19:02 PM PDT by jt8d (War is better than terrorism)
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