In response to a member who erroneously suggested Jesus Christ was the name of the Trinity, I replied with the following Triadological and Christological treatise:
YHWH is God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The names of the Son are the Only-Begotten, Firstborn of All Creation (although He is uncreated), the Son of God, God the Son, (for He possesses the fullness of Godhood), the Son of Man (for He is Fully Man), the Theanthropos or God-Man (in some Patristic texts, indicating that he unifies in His person and hypostasis our human nature, which he partook of from the Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit, and the uncreated Divine Nature), the Logos, Emanuel, Jesus, Christ (the Messiah, Christ and Messiah meaning annointed), the Word of God, our Savior and Pantocrator.
Adonai and El Elyon and Elohim are synonymous with YHWH, representing the Trinity. Thus, those three names also refer to the Father and the Holy Ghost, while the three persons can be individually referred to as God, Lord, and the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and I would argue the term Creator can either be shared or applied personally. The Holy Ghost or Spirit is also known as the Paraclete. The Father Almighty is the unoriginate source of the Trinity, who the Son is begotten of before all ages, and from whom proceeds the Holy Spirt.
So, yes, Jesus Christ did, together with the Father and the Son, save the Israelites, and Jesus Christ is the proper name for the second person of the Trinity, but not the Trinity itself.
God exists in three persons, and three hypostases, but has one divine essence, which is of the unoriginate Father who shares it with the Son begotten of Him and the Holy Spirit proceeding from Him. The three persons are coequal and coeternal, existing in a union of perfect love which we are called to emulate in our relations with others in the Church, in the world, in our relations with others and in our family. And Christ prayed that we would be united just as He and the Father (and the Spirit) are united, not that we would become like the essence of God, which is incomprehensible, but rather, like Him in terms of a perfection of virtues and perfect harmony, participating in His uncreated energies, as Gregory Palamas said. Or, as was written by the most pious Athanasius, champion of the doctrine of the Incarnation and the Trinity at the Council of Nicea and for the rest of his life, and the man responsible, under, I am certain, the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, for our 27 book New Testament canon, “God became man so man could become god.”
YHWH is God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The names of the Son are the Only-Begotten, Firstborn of All Creation (although He is uncreated), the Son of God, God the Son, (for He possesses the fullness of Godhood), the Son of Man (for He is Fully Man), the Theanthropos or God-Man (in some Patristic texts, indicating that he unifies in His person and hypostasis our human nature, which he partook of from the Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit, and the uncreated Divine Nature), the Logos, Emanuel, Jesus, Christ (the Messiah, Christ and Messiah meaning annointed), the Word of God, our Savior and Pantocrator.
Adonai and El Elyon and Elohim are synonymous with YHWH, representing the Trinity. Thus, those three names also refer to the Father and the Holy Ghost, while the three persons can be individually referred to as God, Lord, and the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and I would argue the term Creator can either be shared or applied personally. The Holy Ghost or Spirit is also known as the Paraclete. The Father Almighty is the unoriginate source of the Trinity, who the Son is begotten of before all ages, and from whom proceeds the Holy Spirt.
So, yes, Jesus Christ did, together with the Father and the Son, save the Israelites, and Jesus Christ is the proper name for the second person of the Trinity, but not the Trinity itself.
God exists in three persons, and three hypostases, but has one divine essence, which is of the unoriginate Father who shares it with the Son begotten of Him and the Holy Spirit proceeding from Him. The three persons are coequal and coeternal, existing in a union of perfect love which we are called to emulate in our relations with others in the Church, in the world, in our relations with others and in our family. And Christ prayed that we would be united just as He and the Father (and the Spirit) are united, not that we would become like the essence of God, which is incomprehensible, but rather, like Him in terms of a perfection of virtues and perfect harmony, participating in His uncreated energies, as Gregory Palamas said. Or, as was written by the most pious Athanasius, champion of the doctrine of the Incarnation and the Trinity at the Council of Nicea and for the rest of his life, and the man responsible, under, I am certain, the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, for our 27 book New Testament canon, “God became man so man could become god.”
