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Eternal Generation and Simplicity

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Some follow the more Thomist school of thought about the Trinity. That has a crossover with the issues of Eternal Generation. Thomist have a flag planted in each of those debates and that leaves them with a difficulty reconciling them. So, like Aquinas, Dolezal’s view of the Trinity is that there is one God, with three “subsistent relations.” Now it is possible that Dolezal is working with an unconventional definition of “relation.” If he is, he has not told us, and I confess that in all my study of scholasticism over sixty years I have never found a definition of … Continue reading Eternal Generation and Simplicity

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Celsus on the Deity of Christ (2nd Century)

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Many who deny the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ (Arianism in all its forms for example) have attempted to make the historical case that early Christians prior to the Council of Nicea didn’t believe in such things as the idea that Christ, in addition to His human nature, possesses fully the Divine nature in the same way that God the Father and God the Spirit do. While the orthodox Christian may respond with an appeal to a plethora of early documents such as Ignatius’ (A.D. 30-107) statements that demonstrate a high Christology in the Ante-Nicene period, and rightly so, … Continue reading Celsus on the Deity of Christ (2nd Century)

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Is the Holy Spirit female?

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I recently had an exchange with a rather strange person that thinks the Holy Spirit is a woman that had relations with the Father to produce Jesus (Mary being their daycare). I will not be providing the original conversation, but an edited version that takes any ambiguousness out of what I’m saying. Tommy Hall: So when Mark 10:8 says that when a man leaves his parents and becomes “one flesh” with his wife, does that mean that he is now transgender? No, it means they have formed one substance. Two people; one substance. It’s beautiful, not grotesque as you make … Continue reading Is the Holy Spirit female?

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TrueModalism

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I was asked to comment on an old youtube personality of TrueEmpircism’s open affirmation of Modalism. He seems out of the Theological loop and I suppose he invests too much money into books on biology and needs to spend more on theology. I won’t try an article rebutting Modalism, but I will quote Theologians on the issue: At various times people have taught that God is not really three distinct persons, but only one person who appears to people in different “modes” at different times. For example, in the Old Testament God appeared as “Father.” Throughout the Gospels, this same … Continue reading TrueModalism

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Trinity and Personality

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It is sometimes asked if God could include one less or more persons in the Godhead. The obvious answer is in the negative but interesting metaphysical reasons may be behind why. Sufficient meditation on the above observations yields the conclusion that God cannot be any more or any less than three divine persons, without being reduced to a common class with those finite “impersonally-contained” deities mentioned earlier. Any other number of divine persons would create a disparity between the personal contexts and the personal relationships; between the “one” and the “many” of the Godhead. For example, if God were bi-personal— … Continue reading Trinity and Personality

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A simplistic discussion on the Trinity

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This is not a full-blown model of the Trinity, but it will allow a simplistic articulation of the orthodox doctrine. The Trinity is a very complicated debate and I don’t have the brainpower to say anything remarkable about it. The only thing I will attempt is to explain or formulate a decent trinitarian doctrine. We will start with Biblical monotheism and move from there. In Christian theology, we know that only one God exists, Yahweh. This is foundational to a Biblical worldview(Deut 6:4, Psalm 86:10, Isa 40-48, John 1:1-3,17:3, 1Cor 8:4-6, Gal. 4:8-9). This also puts us in a strange … Continue reading A simplistic discussion on the Trinity