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NASB | John 17:22 "The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 17:22 "I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one, just as We are one; |
Bible Question:
God the Son On another page some one asked is Jesus Christ, God. I answered that God is Jesus Christ. I know some of you answered that Jesus Christ is God. I am an Australian, and follow English Theological Doctrine (such as I know). There exists the Westminster Confession of Faith - 'In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons of one substance, power, and eternity; God the Father, ***God the Son***, and God the Holy Ghost. The Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son'. What I wanted to know is what other confessions of faith exist among christians. And what other standards peculiar to the different denominations are there. To me saying God is Jesus Christ or God is the Son is a confession of my faith. I hope I am still accepted here? Is it a Catholic site? |
Bible Answer: Leslie N, I am the only regularly participating Catholic on this iste as far as I know. But I am planning a Traiathalon for all the members who will be required to swim the Tiber, cycle around the Vatican and run the road to Rome. (Just kidding). Here is what I believe about the Trinity. "The dogma of the Holy Trinity 253 The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial Trinity". The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God." In the words of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), "Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature." 254 The divine persons are really distinct from one another. "God is one but not solitary." "Father", "Son", "Holy Spirit" are not simply names designating modalities of the divine being, for they are really distinct from one another: "He is not the Father who is the Son, nor is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who is the Father or the Son." They are distinct from one another in their relations of origin: "It is the Father who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds." The divine Unity is Triune. 255 The divine persons are relative to one another. Because it does not divide the divine unity, the real distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them to one another: "In the relational names of the persons the Father is related to the Son, the Son to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to both. While they are called three persons in view of their relations, we believe in one nature or substance." Indeed "everything (in them) is one where there is no opposition of relationship." "Because of that unity the Father is wholly in the Son and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Son is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Son." 256 St. Gregory of Nazianzus, also called "the Theologian", entrusts this summary of Trinitarian faith to the catechumens of Constantinople: Above all guard for me this great deposit of faith for which I live and fight, which I want to take with me as a companion, and which makes me bear all evils and despise all pleasures: I mean the profession of faith in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. I entrust it to you today. By it I am soon going to plunge you into water and raise you up from it. I give it to you as the companion and patron of your whole life. I give you but one divinity and power, existing one in three, and containing the three in a distinct way. Divinity without disparity of substance or nature, without superior degree that raises up or inferior degree that casts down. . . the infinite co-naturality of three infinites. Each person considered in himself is entirely God. . . the three considered together. . . I have not even begun to think of unity when the Trinity bathes me in its splendor. I have not even begun to think of the Trinity when unity grasps me. . ." You can read it here in a larger context. http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p2.htm#III Welcome to the forum Emmaus |