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Logical contradictions and the trinity
This question may seem strange, but I believe it is valid. It is commonly understood that God cannot create logical contradictions, such as a square circle, or make 1+1=3. However, it seems that the ...
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According to Trinitarians, how could Jesus (God the Son) be GIVEN life in Himself (John 5:26), if he shares the same essence of being than the Father?
A similar question has been asked here, but no details have been asked other than how Trinitarians interpret this verse. The top answer of the linked question talks about the Son being "eternally ...
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Are the 3 Persons of the Trinity dependent on each other?
So I'm recently trying to reconnect with my faith and I stumbled across the doctrine of the Trinity, and so a question came across my mind especially after I got into a debate with a muslim friend
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Which Jesus died or in what sense did Jesus ("God") die for our sins
Jesus is "fully God" & "fully man". Jesus (the man) is made up of body+spirit(+soul). Jesus (God) is a spirit.
Which of these "natures" died for us, considering that:
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Is it absolutely required for people to believe in the deity of Jesus to be called Christians? [closed]
The more I study scripture the more I realise that all those proof texts for the deity of Christ can also be interpreted in another way that points more in the direction that Jesus is an Elohim but ...
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Which Person of the Trinity is the Ancient of Days sitting on His throne?
Accordring to Trinitarians who is this person with a form, sitting on His throne?
Daniel 7:9-27
New King James Version
Vision of the Ancient of Days
9 “I watched till thrones were put in place, And ...
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Do Seventh Day Adventists believe in three Centers of Consciousness in God?
I want to ask my Seventh-Day Adventist friends about their view of the Trinity. I was listening this morning to one of your preachers. He said that EGW never refers to the Trinity but is adamant there ...
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How does the soul fit in with the existence
My question(s) relates to how the soul fits in with the existence "equation" and I have 2 main questions:
Is the human soul part of your person or your essence, if essence then do humans ...
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Significance of one divine essence/nature
All human beings share a common nature/essence, yet are not one "being", but the 3 persons of the Trinity share a common essence/nature and are one being. I have 3 questions here:
What ...
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What pronouns make most sense when referencing the Trinity?
The Trinity is 3 persons sharing 1 essence.
They share It.
(Where does the "He", "Him", "Me", "My" come from?)
Jesus uses plural personified pronouns when ...
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In what way(s) is God the Father a father to God the Son? And in what way(s) is God the Son a son?
Every concept and Truth is from the creative mind of God. This includes what defines a father and a son. By observation, we can know how God defines a father within His design.
Some examples of ...
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In what sense was mankind created in the image of a triune essence?
God created mankind in His image.
Gen 1
26 And 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 fowl of the air, and over ...
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Trinitarian Ontology... What is it? Being vs person vs essence vs _______
I will try to ask this unique question again. How can we answer here without defining simple words used to define God?
Premise
From Wikipedia:
Ontology addresses questions of how entities are ...
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According to Trinitarians, which person/essence/being/substance/relation is "the Living God"?
Psalm 84:2
My soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of YHWH; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Matthew 16:16
Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the ...
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Can a human coherently claim to be "God the father"?
Can a human coherently claim to be "God the father"? Apologies for the obscure question; I have not read much of the bible. Is it theologically (metaphysically?) possible for a human (I ...
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According to Trinitarians, can a Person of the Trinity add a new nature whenever He wants to?
According to Trinitarians, the Second Person of the Trinity 'assumed' or 'took on' a human nature at incarnation. Do Trinitarians hold that the Second Person of the Trinity (or any Persons) can ...
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Did the Cappadocians teach one or two substances?
"One substance" means that Father and Son are one single substance. That is known as numerical sameness.
But if homoousios in the Nicene Creed is translated as "same substance," it ...
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Does the Catholic's Trinity doctrine imply that the Unitarian God Multiplied into Three persons by Generating the other Two?
Does the cause-effect and begotten doctrine of the Eastern and Roman Catholic Church imply a division or multiplication in the nature of God? Unitarian God (Father) begets or caused into effect the ...
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According to Trinitarians, is Jesus the begotten Son of God the Father, or the begotten Son of God?
A typical translation of a line from the Nicene Creed from the First Council of Constantinople (381) is
"And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten
of the Father"
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What is the earliest clear and unambiguous post-NT affirmation of the Holy Spirit's personhood in Christianity?
I have two very related questions:
What is the earliest recorded post-NT instance of a clear and unambiguous affirmation that the Holy Spirit is a Person, distinct from the Father and the Son, in the ...
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Is there a Christian denomination that only considers the Son and the Father to be persons of God? [duplicate]
Is there a Christian denomination that holds only the Son and the Father as persons of God? (Only two persons) -- as opposed to Trinitarianism and Unitarianism. Has it been upheld by anyone in ...
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How do the Father and Son differ if they have the same particular essence?
My question assumes ousia in Christian orthodoxy means a particular (not universal) essence or form, and not a concrete instantiation (hypostasis).
If the Father and Son have the same ousia, where are ...
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According to Catholic Tradition, did God the Father ever teach or punish God the Son?
Catholics are taught to believe in the Trinity - God in Three Persons - The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
If Catholics are taught to worship God "The Father" and God "The Son", ...
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From a trinitarian perspective, how do you biblically reconcile Jesus dying and Jesus being God?
I've heard non-trinitarians say, "The Bible says God can't die, therefore Jesus isn't God.
First of all, does the Bible even say that God can't die (I assume it does, or at least it implies it). ...
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Why were ousia and hypostasis synonymous in the Nicene Creed?
Why were ousia and hypostasis synonymous in the Nicene Creed?
In the original 325 A.D. Nicene Creed, an anathema is included which has ousia and hypostasis as synonymous. In this case, the Trinity is ...
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In Trinitarian theology who created the world? [closed]
Did the father create the world by himself by fiat ("Let there be and there was...")?
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Did the father order the son to create the world and the son did the work (where "Let there be..." was a ...
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Is God the Son's divine nature human?
According to the hypostatic union, God the Son assumed a human nature, so that he is both fully divine and fully human. The two natures, although distinct, are not separated.
Does this mean god the ...
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According to Trinitarian theology of Calvinism, was the Word (2nd person of the Trinity) missing from heaven when He (the Word) incarnated on Earth?
What I mean with "missing from heaven" is something like this :
A. Only the first and the third persons of the Trinity were in heaven because the second person was on Earth.
Example:
Q : Where is ...
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Does 1 Corinthians 8:6 prove Unitarianism? [closed]
yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all , things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. 1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV
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According to Trinitarianism, is Jesus God Almighty?
First of all I want a Trinitarian answer.
Is it proper to say that Jesus is God Almighty? The Scriptures are very clear but they (and the church fathers) are very clear that the Father is God ...
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Is God the Son the God of God the Son?
Calvin's Commentary of John 20 says...
It is, unquestionably, an invaluable blessing, that believers can safely and firmly believe, that He who is the God of Christ is their God, and that He who is ...
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According to the Catholic Church, why is God called “Father” (and not, say, “Mother”)?
Throughout the Bible, Jesus specifically refers to God as Father, and us as his sons.
Why is it significant that God is a Father? Why did God choose the image of “Father,” as opposed to other ...
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According to Protestantism why did God choose the persona of a Father?
Throughout the Bible, God uses the persona of a Father. Jesus specifically refers to God as Father, and us as his sons. Why is it significant that God is a Father? And why did God choose the nature ...
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Do Mormons actually believe in any sort of supreme being/ultimate reality/"Absolute"?
From what I've heard about the Mormon God, he doesn't actually seem to fit the description of "supreme being" and rather seems more like a polytheistic Greek or Hindu God.
The following may be ...
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How is the Trinity compatible with divine simplicity?
Divine simplicity is the doctrine that God has no parts/composition. It implies that God is equivalent to his attributes and his attributes are equivalent to each other. So God is love and God is ...
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Was it possible for God to be a single person like in Islam and Judaism? Or is the attribute of "Trinity" an essential property of God? [closed]
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the Father "begot" the son from eternity. I suppose you could formulate my question as, did the Father have any choice in this? As in, could he ...
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Is the Divine Substance rational?
According to the answers here and here, the term person means "an individual substance of a rational nature".
According to trinitarian theology, the triune god exists as three consubstantial persons ...
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Did the Father and Holy Spirit become man?
According to Trinitarian theology, the second person of the triune god became man. The second person of the triune god is also fully god, and since there is only one god, the second person of the ...
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What is the biblical basis for the personhood of the Holy Spirit?
According to Trinitarian theology, the Holy Trinity consists of three persons (τρεῖς ὑποστάσεις), the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who share the same essence/nature (ὁμοούσιος). What is the ...
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Which Ante-Nicene Church Fathers believed that Jesus is the "eternal Son" of the Father?
Economic trinitarianism, in the pre-Nicene sense of the phrase, says that God is a monad who becomes tripartite for the purposes of creation and redemption. Forms of this view were held by Justin ...
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How do the Orthodox and Catholics understand the spiration of the Holy Spirit?
The following are definition(s) of SPIRATION (source):
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a obsolete : the action of breathing as a creative or life-giving function of the Deity
b (1) : the act by or manner in which the Holy ...
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Why is the Trinity a Trinity? [closed]
It's well established and accepted by most Christians that God is triune, consisting of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
However, while talking with a friend earlier about Wisdom (from Proverbs), I ...
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What is the Biblical evidence that there are ONLY three persons in the "Trinity"?
(This is a followup to the various answers for the question What is the Biblical basis for the doctrine of the Trinity?)
The specific concept of 'trinity' isn't specifically spelled out in the Bible. ...
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