Jesus as the 2nd Person

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I have started reading a book on the “Holy Trinity” and is states that Jesus is the “word” of the God, the thought of God.

Would it be accurate to think that Jesus is the conscience of the God the father?
 
Mendieta said:
I have started reading a book on the “Holy Trinity” and is states that Jesus is the “word” of the God, the thought of God.

Would it be accurate to think that Jesus is the conscience of the God the father?
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Mendieta:
The way I have heard it explained, Jesus is Gods mental image of Himself, or His self-image. This image is so powerful and perfect that He is another person. The Holy Spirit is then the love shared between the Father and Son. This love is also so powerful that He is yet another person within the Trinity.

This is of course just a guess, as of course no one truly understands the Trinity. It is a mystery.
 
Mendieta said:
I have started reading a book on the “Holy Trinity” and is states that Jesus is the “word” of the God, the thought of God.

Would it be accurate to think that Jesus is the conscience of the God the father?
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I do not believe to be accurate. Conscience it is a tipical human tract and not divine. Read the definition in the Catholic Encyclopedia. Jesus by being fully human had a conscience, but that does not make him God’s conscience.
 
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Mendieta:
The way I have heard it explained, Jesus is Gods mental image of Himself, or His self-image. This image is so powerful and perfect that He is another person. The Holy Spirit is then the love shared between the Father and Son. This love is also so powerful that He is yet another person within the Trinity.

This is of course just a guess, as of course no one truly understands the Trinity. It is a mystery.
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Yes i have read similar, the word of God is not a word spoken by mouth but as thought. It is the absolute “thought” of god, of himself which is then absolute and complete, which is the second person in the trinity known as Jesus. The thought is linked still with the body(the father) which has life and the life connects with the thought. How then does the love between these two persons create a third? How does the life transfer?

As for your comments Cristiano, we are talking of the conscience of the lord, would not that be divine if there were such thing?

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Michael Ivan Mendieta
 
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As for your comments Cristiano, we are talking of the conscience of the lord, would not that be divine if there were such thing?

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Michael Ivan Mendieta
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No it would be human. The human nature calls for a soul and a conscience. My thinking is that in the case of Jesus the conscience would be perfectly formed. While in the case of the rest of us it is not. This is my own thinking and not extracted from any Church document. So I might be wrong, and it would not be the first time.
 
In the human person there is the Intellect, will and a function of the will that is the conscience. The conscience is sort of like the touchstone of the will. When a decision is to be made the intellect gathers the information and the will receives that information and in a sense compares it to the conscience and then the will is able to act according to the rules established in the conscience. This is an over simplification but I think works for the time being.

In God there is no need for a conscience since His Will and Intellect are in actuality the same thing. Since He has perfect knowledge of all things the will of God does not need anything to compare the information against. So, it is not correct to say that the Word (the Logos) as the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity is the conscience of God.
 
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