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1 | Explain Trinity Father Son, Holy Ghost | Is 1:1 | halroy | 199586 | ||
Thanks for the welcome, Doc, In seeking to understand how three Persons can be One, I find it handy for my weak mind - I am no scholar - to consider that my own existence seems to entail three...modes, if you want to use the term. However, I ascribe no modes of subordination or derivation to the Godhead based on this. The image of myself produced by my Kodak comes much closer to revealing the essence of my existence, than whatever image my existence reveals to me of the essence of God. It was not meant as an analogy, but just a dim perception of comparison not intended as a basis for doctrine. My beliefs are very conservative, and, I am sure, orthodox. I agree with your caution. may god bless you, halroy |
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2 | Explain Trinity Father Son, Holy Ghost | Is 1:1 | Hank | 199634 | ||
Dear Halroy :: A warm welcome, sir, to Study Bible Forum. Yes, I also concur heavily with the caveat that we must lean toward caution when speaking of, or trying to invent metaphors and similies to explain, the idea of the triune God. God has revealed much of Himself in His word, all, I would dare say, that man is capable of comprehending. And even then He has encased much of His revelation in what John Calvin was pleased to call "baby talk," by which I take Calvin to mean that God has reduced His eternal truths to the simplest human language possible so that we might know Him as intimately as possible. Yet God is still God and man is still man, and God remains transcendent. ...... And when finite man attempts to explain in his own language and according to his own limited reason the attributes of the triunity of the transcendent God, all his metaphors and similies rapidly fall apart because they never had adhesion to begin with. ..... But we know that Scripture teaches clearly the triunity of God even though we understand it but dimly. No one I suppose has anything like a perfect understanding of this vital doctrine of the church, but the ancient creeds add much to our understanding, even though it remains limited. ...... As an afterword, I'm reminded of a story one of my college professors told me long after I'd left school and his classroom. The professor (of English) used to teach a surprisingly popular class on the King James Bible as literature. After class one day, a young co-ed walked up to his desk and presented her dilemma. It so happened that her very next class was a speech class and she had chosen to give a brief speech on the Trinity. But she admitted to the English professor that she had not had time to prepare for her speech and asked him to explain the Trinity to her (she had all of 10 minutes before her speech class) so she could make her speech. "And what did you tell this young lady? I asked. And the professor told me that he said something like this to her, "My dear young lady, you flatter me enormously. Some of the finest minds who have ever walked this earth have strugged with the doctrine of the Trinity for hundreds of years, and you presume me able to explain the Trinity to you in 10 minutes? Next time you're called upon to give a speech, for goodness' sake choose a subject you know something about. Good day, young lady." ...... Grace to you, halroy. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Explain Trinity Father Son, Holy Ghost | Is 1:1 | halroy | 199635 | ||
you folks are too tough for me | ||||||
4 | Explain Trinity Father Son, Holy Ghost | Is 1:1 | halroy | 199636 | ||
Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Mar 8:12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation." Luk 8:55 And her spirit returned, and she got up at once. And he directed that something should be given her to eat. Luk 24:39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have." Joh 3:5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Joh 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Act 7:59 And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Act 16:7 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. Rom 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you Rom 1:10 always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. 1Co 2:11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." |
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