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As opposed to other gods, and other realms?
What do you mean by 'lower dimension', how do you know there are seven of them, and how do you know "the god of our realm" runs them?
That is not a proper English sentence. Could you rephrase, please?
What are these "forces of darkness"?
Jesus?
At the forefront of what?
If we don't have free will, we're not culpable for any action (or inaction) on our part. So, given that, why do dead humans go to Hell?
The two are mutually exclusive. Unless you're saying God is actually a conglomeration of several distinct deities, he can no more be both temporaland atemportal, then I can be both married and a bachelor.
But what would be judged? Our actions are not our own - we didn't choose to kill that person or give to that charity, as we don't have free will. When God comes down and judges us, by all rights he shouldn't do anything, as there's nothing that's happened for which we can be judged.
The mother more likely contributed the shooter to shoot the children at Sandy. As a group, other people cause others to do what they do. 4 cars on each side of me cause me not to be able to move my car. God puts things there but you do the action.
Again, there are three distinct persons, each with a differing ontology. For example, the Father is not incarnated, the Son is. If the Son is incarnate, he is technically temporal, and yet he is God. Yet the Father is not temporal, as He is not incarnated, and so He would remain atemporal.
But per your original claim, we don't have free will. The action is there, but no free will did it.
So you're a modalist - in 'Father' mode, he is atemporal, etc; in 'Son' mode, he is incarnate, temporal, etc.
And my car is one object of 100 distinct parts, and my dog is one creature existence 10[sup]12[/sup] distinct cells.
'Being' and 'person' would seem to be synonymous, yet since you assert that God is one 'being' and three 'persons' simultaneously, I think some definitions wouldn't go amiss. So, what are yours?
No, what I have stated is not Modalism. Modalism is the view that there is the Father, then Son, and then Holy Spirit. In other words, these 'modes' are never simultaneous, existing only after one another. What I said was God is one being existent as three distinct persons, the doctrine of the Trinity, which means all three persons exist simultaneously.
God does not need to switch as again both the Father and Son exist simultaneously.
And your point is? Can one of your distinct car parts operate in some efficient fashion that it would as if it were all one object?
The only way I can make sense of this is to say that "being" is defined as the qualities that constitute an existing thing. "Essence" would be synonymous with this. "Person" is defined as who one is.
Not at all: a woman can be a daughter, sister, and mother, three 'modes' that exist simultaneously. Modalism states that, to a given believer, God might appear in Jesus mode, or Holy Spirit mode, etc; Jesus mode is not Holy Spirit mode, just as daughterhood is not sisterhood, but nonetheless the person is the same.
"One being existent as three distinct persons" - could you define the operative verb, 'existent'?
As does a woman's motherhood and daughterhood... Modalism through and through
So, when you say that God is "one being existent as three persons", these three persons all share the same set of qualities. That sounds like Mormonism or Tri-Theism - the 'essence' of God is just some set of traits, akin to how two identical cars have the same 'essence of car'.
And what does that mean?
Not at all what? Modalism denies the co - existence of the three persons. There are never the Father and the Son existing at the same time according to Modalism. That's what it is, and I have not said that.
In this context I would say it means to have self awareness and consciousness.
No, that is not Modalism. Modalism does not affirm the view that all three persons exist simultaneously. I am not sure why you think they do when that is exactly why it is considered unorthodox.As does a woman's motherhood and daughterhood... Modalism through and through
You do know Mormonism denies the idea that the three persons are not the same being or substance, right? That is in stark contrast with what I said. I don't know if they think all three have the same qualities, and if they do that is fine because that is what the doctrine of the Trinity states too.
What does "who are you?" mean?
