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Recent content by jwilliams190800

  1. J

    How can God be simultaneously a Trinity of Persons, and yet one?

    I have in the past moved past it and focused on other things, but it always keeps coming back, which is why I've started asking, in the hope to find other views and some clarification from scripture
  2. J

    How can God be simultaneously a Trinity of Persons, and yet one?

    Because I am uncomfortable with the fact that God isn't one Person, but we often refer to God in a singular manner, and for me, it's actually quite a distracting thought
  3. J

    How can God be simultaneously a Trinity of Persons, and yet one?

    Quite a thorough explanation, and I think it is useful to understand scripturally where the basis of the Trinity is, especially the part about translating Hebrew to English, so thank you
  4. J

    How can God be simultaneously a Trinity of Persons, and yet one?

    I guess I don't really like vague things, so for me, it is a stumbling block. It's not that it stops me from being faithful, but it stops me from loving God with all my being
  5. J

    How can God be simultaneously a Trinity of Persons, and yet one?

    I really like this, it's a nice simple way of 'how God works'
  6. J

    How can God be simultaneously a Trinity of Persons, and yet one?

    That's really helpful actually, I think it's something that for me never sat quite right, and I'm not sure if it ever will, or even if it's supposed to. Perhaps it's just the change in how people understood God between the OT and the NT that is the root of the confusion
  7. J

    How can God be simultaneously a Trinity of Persons, and yet one?

    It still remains something that is very confusing, I've spoken to a few priests about this, and all I got was that God is one, and 3 at the same time, which is a contradiction.
  8. J

    How can God be simultaneously a Trinity of Persons, and yet one?

    It may not be something that people often don't care about, but the nature of God, for me, is important and at the moment, this is something that is preventing me from continuing further with my faith. I have prayed about this many times, and I still feel no closer to an answer
  9. J

    How can God be simultaneously a Trinity of Persons, and yet one?

    So why do we often talk about God as one Person, for example Exodus 3:14, we are given that God is called 'I AM WHO I AM', so why is it possible to ignore that and assume that God is three Persons in 1? If God wasn't a singular being, Exodus 3:14 would surely read 'WE ARE WHO WE ARE', no?
  10. J

    How can God be simultaneously a Trinity of Persons, and yet one?

    This is something that's bugged me for quite a while and I can't seem to get my head around it. I constantly see things which, to my mind, seem to contradict, sometimes God is referred to as part or the whole of the Holy Trinity, but then in the Creeds, we profess that we believe in one God. In...
  11. J

    Membership of a Church in UK

    Hi all, Recently I've been considering my faith and finding love for Christ. I've also been reading scripture. And I've been wanting to start going to church regularly for a while now. I intend to do so starting this Sunday. (fingers crossed that that goes well) The reason for me choosing...
  12. J

    Confused Young Man

    It's much closer than the ELCE church, but still relatively far away, it would depend largely on traffic on how fast I could get there; there aren't any motorways to use
  13. J

    Confused Young Man

    Cool, thanks for the link
  14. J

    Confused Young Man

    I did have a quick look, the closest congregation to me is a drive of about 2.5 hours away
  15. J

    Confused Young Man

    It truly is XD Between Adam and Jacob, around 67 people are listed as being born, not including Adam and Eve or the many cities and nations.