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1 | the farher,son,holy spirit? | 1 Tim 6:16 | biblicalman | 229191 | ||
Hi, The first thing that we must all remember is that when we are speaking of God we should do so in awed tones. We are speaking of the Almighty God, not some interesting debating topic. 'God is in Heaven, and we are on the earth, therefore let our words be few' (Eccles 5.2). The Triune God is Spirit (John 4.24). Thus He is not definable in human terms at all. We can only approach Him because when He created us, He created us body, soul and spirit (1 Thess 5.23) That is what is meant by being 'created in the image of God' (Gen 1.27). But we cannot understand our own spirits,nor can we scientifically examine them. How then can we expect to understand God? Throughout the Old Testament God revealed Himself in many and varied ways in what we call theophanies (e.g. in Isaiah 6.1-7). But those were physical theophanies, revealing a little about His glory, but not really a display of what God is truly like. He is the One Whom no man has seen or can see (1 Tim 6.16), dwelling in unapproachable light (1 Tim 6.16). We know that God is in threeness because that is how He has revealed Himself to us. He is the Father, He is the Son Who became man for us, He is the Holy Spirit. And these three are each personal and they inter-communicate. And yet they are not three individuals. Indeed I hesitate to speak of three 'persons' because in our experience 'persons' are individuals. In that sense God is not three persons. But within the Godhead are personal, intercommunicating relationships. The Father communicates with the Son, the Son communicates with the Father. In that sense we can speak of persons. At His baptism the Father spoke to the Son, and sent His Holy Spirit into the Son. There we see three distinctions within God. And yet they always act as One. We may reverently say that there had to be such distinctions within God because He is complete in Himself. For God to be love, there had to be One Who could love, and One Who could be loved. The idea of an isolated and alone God with no one to communicate with (like Allah) would leave God lacking in something essential. But that is as far as we can or should seek to go. In the end we must accept God's revelation of Himself. Best wishes |
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2 | the farher,son,holy spirit? | 1 Tim 6:16 | justme | 229199 | ||
biblicalman(:-) I have seldon read a better way of explaining the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit! Often I have said that there is no way our very limited human ability can grasp how to explain The Triune God. No theory of using an egg or water comes close in my thinking. I take Deut. 29:29 and trust in what God has allowed to know in the Bible about the Awesomeness of the LORD. Blessings. justme |
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saving my family | ||
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