Questions tagged [trinity]
The doctrine of the three-personhood of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; who, though existing in three distinct persons and work towards different arenas, are the same God, of the same mind, and the same purpose.
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Are WLC's arguments against Relative Identity Trinitarianism valid?
In his book Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, William Lane Craig offers three arguments against Relative Identity.
The first argument regards the alleged "spurious" nature ...
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Does the concept of Godhead (one God, but multiple persons) predate Christianity? Can we find evidence of this concept in Judaism before 0 A.D.?
Was the concept of Godhead (one God, but multiple persons) known by the Jews prior to the advent of Christianity? Were there Jews that held a Binitarian, Trinitarian or similar "Godhead" ...
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What are the differences between "spiration" and "procession"?
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, proceed means:
Full Definition of proceed; intransitive verb
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Do non-Social Trinitarians believe that "begotten" and "proceeding" are different?
(To clarify, I am asking about Nicene-affirming Trinitarians, just ones that don't accept intra-Godhead emotions)
In the Nicene creed, Jesus is described as: begotten of the Father
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Theologians who compared the tripartite division of civil authority to the Trinity?
Pope Pius XI, encyclical Quas primas (1925) instituting the feast of Christ the King, says that the "lordship of Christ […] consists […] in a threefold [tripartite] power which is essential to ...
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Is believing on God for salvation the same as believing in Jesus as Christ?
I'm interested in answers particularly from Evangelicals who might disagree with this idea, as well as those who agree with it. I'm especially interested in theological considerations - ie. does this ...
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Has any scholar argued that the Trinity doctrine solves the "best possible world" and "divine freedom to create" objections?
Quoting the wikipedia article, "The claim that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds is the central argument in Leibniz's theodicy, or his attempt to solve the problem of evil." It is ...
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Why is it significant that Arius taught two Wisdoms? Was this a deviation of some kind?
Both Athanasius noted that Arius taught two Wisdoms. Athanasius wrote that in Arius’ theology,
“There are … two Wisdoms, one God's own who has existed eternally with
God, the other the Son who was ...
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How do Biblical Unitarians explain the use of the singular in 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17?
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 is
"16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by
grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
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How to express the Trinity in terms of category theory
I've recently been studying category theory (mathematics), in which the relations between objects are generalized to a very abstract level. I was wondering therefore if the relations between the ...
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Does the Holy Spirit speak on behalf of the Father , or the Son or both?
We see in John 16:13, Jesus giving his disciples a foresight into the role of the Holy Spirit:
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, ...
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Was Isaac Newton a Heretic?
(Related to Was Leo Tolstoy a heretic?) Most know Sir Isaac Newton as the person who discovered gravity when he observed the fall of an apple or his discovery of light being a particle, but few are ...
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What does Eastern Orthodox Christians mean that the Father alone is the one God?
What does Eastern Orthodox Christians mean that the Father is the one God?
I understand that Eastern Orthodox Trinitarianism differs from Unitarianism in that the former teaches three divine persons ...
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Is there a specific term to denote an encounter with the Holy Spirit?
Encounters with God (the Father) are called Theophanies, encounters with Jesus are called Christophanies, but what about encounters with the Holy Spirit? Is there a specific term for an encounter with ...
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Given that Jesus can read minds. Why did God need to observe external behavior to know what was in the heart?
Given that Jesus can read minds. Why did God need to observe external behavior to know what was in the heart?
In Mark 2:8 it reads
And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so
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Did the Son receive His substance from the Father?
In the Nicene Creed, the Son of God is begotten of the substance of the Father. In other words, the Father is the Source of the Son’s substance:
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten ...
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How does the Catholic Church explain the term “the Son”: in the Sign of the Cross as well as in Matthew 28:19?
We read at Mtt 28:19:
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
In the Sign of the Cross we take the name of ...