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holdencaulfield
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What do you think? Use the Catechism please as well.
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Lazerlike42
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I can tell from your recent posts that you are either trying to understand the Trinity, or defend it.
Read this entire page: constantprayer.com/theology-sanity.html
It’s certainly a bit long, but you’ll come away with the answers you need, I assure you. It is the explanation of the Trinity by Frank Sheed, considered by most to be the best explanation ever put in print.
I would also highly recommend getting a copy of Frank Sheed’s “Theology and Sanity.”
God bless!
Read this entire page: constantprayer.com/theology-sanity.html
It’s certainly a bit long, but you’ll come away with the answers you need, I assure you. It is the explanation of the Trinity by Frank Sheed, considered by most to be the best explanation ever put in print.
I would also highly recommend getting a copy of Frank Sheed’s “Theology and Sanity.”
God bless!
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holdencaulfield
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Thank you. I also looked it up in the Catechism last night and it is a term for relation.I can tell from your recent posts that you are either trying to understand the Trinity, or defend it.
Read this entire page: constantprayer.com/theology-sanity.html
It’s certainly a bit long, but you’ll come away with the answers you need, I assure you. It is the explanation of the Trinity by Frank Sheed, considered by most to be the best explanation ever put in print.
I would also highly recommend getting a copy of Frank Sheed’s “Theology and Sanity.”
God bless!
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Genesis315
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I think reading some of the orations on the Trinity by St. Gregory of Nazianzus might help. It is relational, since the Son is co-eternal with the Father, but the relationship matters:
Essentially, what God “thinks” comes into being–that’s why all creation comes through the Logos. God also has an idea of Himself–an image of Himself–yet, since He is eternal so is this perfect idea of Himself–but since what He “thinks” comes into being, there is an eternal “begetting” of the Son (the Logos, the Image of God) from the principle person, the Father (this is why Jesus says everything He knows and is comes from the Father). But again, since the Father’s idea of Himself is perfect, the Son is equal to Him in all ways. And yet, like the word spoken by a man that proceeds from his mouth and yet remains within him in his mind, so is the Word of God “begotten” eternally, while always remaining in the unity of the Divine essence.
This explanation is not perfect, but hopefully it helps you understand a little (I might have just confused you more!)
Essentially, what God “thinks” comes into being–that’s why all creation comes through the Logos. God also has an idea of Himself–an image of Himself–yet, since He is eternal so is this perfect idea of Himself–but since what He “thinks” comes into being, there is an eternal “begetting” of the Son (the Logos, the Image of God) from the principle person, the Father (this is why Jesus says everything He knows and is comes from the Father). But again, since the Father’s idea of Himself is perfect, the Son is equal to Him in all ways. And yet, like the word spoken by a man that proceeds from his mouth and yet remains within him in his mind, so is the Word of God “begotten” eternally, while always remaining in the unity of the Divine essence.
This explanation is not perfect, but hopefully it helps you understand a little (I might have just confused you more!)
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