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27th January 2009, 12:02 PM
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Reps: 168,296,954,672,949 (power: 168,296,954,677) | | Wow! I might be missing something but I thought Jazzpooh made a good statement on the trinity and did maintain that God is one, not 3. Maybe it was the Originally Posted by jazzypooh  He is one God just like we are one person, but made up of 3 different parts.
that brought about the concern.
I like the fact that her response actually had scripture along with it as well.
With that being said, Let me see if I got this right.
God is one God. But there is God the father (The Spirit), God the Son (or the Word, which IS God manifested in the flesh, and the Holy Spirit (God living in us and guiding us.) And to make sure we are not confused... this is not to say there are 3 Gods because God The Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost (Holy spirit) are one as stated in 1 John 5:7.
If thats correct them I'm good. If it is not, then I need more guidance on it.
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27th January 2009, 12:14 PM
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Reps: 733,823,841,429,782,784 (power: 733,823,841,429,797) | | Originally Posted by Bryan Cotton Wow! I might be missing something but I thought Jazzpooh made a good statement on the trinity and did maintain that God is one, not 3. Maybe it was the
that brought about the concern.
I like the fact that her response actually had scripture along with it as well.
With that being said, Let me see if I got this right.
God is one God. But there is God the father (The Spirit), God the Son (or the Word, which IS God manifested in the flesh, and the Holy Spirit (God living in us and guiding us.) And to make sure we are not confused... this is not to say there are 3 Gods because God The Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost (Holy spirit) are one as stated in 1 John 5:7.
If thats correct them I'm good. If it is not, then I need more guidance on it.
It's not so much that it was wrong, so much as that it could be easily misunderstood. The trinity is one God, three persons, as opposed to one God, one person, three manifestations. It is not one God, who is sometimes the Father, sometimes the Son, and sometimes the Holy Spirit. It is not one God, who plays the role of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is one Father who is fully God, one Son who is fully God, and one Holy Spirit who is fully God, and this is where mathematical logic has to go out the window; the three together are one God. It is so illogical by human standards that attempts to explain it using human logic tend to be somewhat misleading.
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God is not just revealed in three ways, or working in three ways, there are three eternally distinct persons in the Godhead.
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28th January 2009, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by BereanTodd Be careful you are sounding very close to modalism there. There are eternal distinctions in the Godhead. God is not one person revealed in three ways, He is three persons in one God. i understand what you're saying and i do believe that there are 3 distinct Persons that make up the Godhead. i was trying to figure out the best way to convey this concept to the OP, without further confusing him. sry if it sounded misleading. i know we dont always explain these things perfectly, because we're not perfect beings. but i was trying to bring it to a level where he could understand it, without speaking over his head or confusing him any further. but i definitely wasnt trying to say that the Father, Son, and Spirit are not equal in deity, because that is not what i believe.
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