Now that I have posted about God's oneness, persons, the divinity of Father, son, and Spirit, His "Threeness" I will now speak of His Divine Unity. It is does encompass all of the above things mentioned, but there are also other aspects of His Unity I'd like to speak about, too.
First of all, God is a Unity in the sense that all of what we delineate out as His attributes or characteristics in truth are a complete unified Divine Essence that only God possesses. All of what we can say to describe Him are not different parts of His Being, but are the completely unified Divine Nature with its infinite perfection. And because He is a perfect Unity, God does not change in His nature.
The second way God is a Unity is within the Godhead of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The persons are distinct and aware that they are we, us, he, him, his, ours, me, my I (read John's Last Supper Discourse), yet they are indivisibly unified in the one Beng of the Divine Nature.
They have always been three distinction that have personhood for all of eternity and have forever related to one another in this union. Some of how they relate to one another has been revealed to us, but there is infinitely more to their union is not.
Jesus said that He and the Father are One, that if you have seen the Son, you are also seeing the Father
The Holy spirit is called the Eternal Spirit, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from within this union into the world and into believers while still remaining unified and omnipresence.
The Scriptures say that the Father created all things, the Son, Jesus, created all things and that the Spirit gives life to all things.
The Scriptures say that the Father raised Jesus from the dead, that Jesus raised Himself, and that the Spirit raised Jesus from the dead.
These divine actions happened by way of the unified nature of God's one Being, with each distinct person having part in what occurred.
Now that I have posted about God's oneness, persons, the divinity of Father, son, and Spirit, His "Threeness" I will now speak of His Divine Unity. It is does encompass all of the above things mentioned, but there are also other aspects of His Unity I'd like to speak about, too.
First of all, God is a Unity in the sense that all of what we delineate out as His attributes or characteristics in truth are a complete unified Divine Essence that only God possesses. All of what we can say to describe Him are not different parts of His Being, but are the completely unified Divine Nature with its infinite perfection. And because He is a perfect Unity, God does not change in His nature.
The second way God is a Unity is within the Godhead of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The persons are distinct and aware that they are we, us, he, him, his, ours, me, my I (read John's Last Supper Discourse), yet they are indivisibly unified in the one Beng of the Divine Nature.
They have always been three distinction that have personhood for all of eternity and have forever related to one another in this union. Some of how they relate to one another has been revealed to us, but there is infinitely more to their union is not.
Jesus said that He and the Father are One, that if you have seen the Son, you are also seeing the Father
The Holy spirit is called the Eternal Spirit, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from within this union into the world and into believers while still remaining unified and omnipresence.
The Scriptures say that the Father created all things, the Son, Jesus, created all things and that the Spirit gives life to all things.
The Scriptures say that the Father raised Jesus from the dead, that Jesus raised Himself, and that the Spirit raised Jesus from the dead.
These divine actions happened by way of the unified nature of God's one Being, with each distinct person having part in what occurred.
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