Kerryn

Thanks to all of you for your valuable insights. i dont comment much on this site but read ALL the entries and learn a lot!

it seems to me in my humble opinion that any of us who try and ‘box’ God into some neat little easily explainable package (be it called ‘Trinity’ or whatever) are on dangerous idolatrous ground. He is so awesome and so far ‘beyond’ what human words can do we are always going to ‘fall short’ trying to describe the INdescribable! Yet we are called to seek him and know him – so we must ‘try’ to do so!

as we dialogue about our God i pray that we are amazed and enthralled by this “Triune Being” – not desperate to box him into several neat little packages that our little minds can claim to contain him… may the “Trinity” ignite us with wonder – not frustrate us with our human limitations. what a task – to know the One who is so amazingly majestic, we can never ‘fully’ know him as he is “ultimately unknowable”! surely we can only know him as he has chosen in his great grace to reveal himself to us:- “Know this…the LORD YOUR GOD IS ONE” (deut 6:4). as we seek to better understand the “Trinity”, i believe that our concepts must not ever under cut the perfect unity, equality and “one-ness” of our amazing God. I am yet to read an ‘eternal subordinalist’ argument that does not at some point undermine the perfect unity and equality of Jesus and Father and Spirit.

I am personally particularly interested in exploring what the scriptures have to say about the way the “incarnate, human” Jesus relates with Father in ‘contrast’ (not sure that’s the right word?) to how the “eternal pre-existent divine Son” relates to Father. (The mystery of Jesus being fully human and and fully God at once is as amazing as the concept of the Trinity… so forgive me if i haven’t expressed my statement well. I do believe that Jesus was fully human AND fully divine!)

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Kerryn