Perfect relationship between Trinity and other relationships in heaven?

[Tony]

My question can sound like a question out of blue, but I am going to ask it anyway.

We can come up with many different descriptions of so called “perfect relationship”, but for Christians the best example of perfect relationship (or the most “ideal” relationship) would be the relationship within the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).

Will every relationship that takes place in heaven (which includes heavenly relationship between God’s creations, for example, a relationship between two heavenly human beings) as perfect and complete as the relationship of the Trinity?

My logic says that because Heaven is “the perfect” place, the strength of relationship/union that occurs throughout heavenly community should be equally perfect, powerful, and strong to the utmost extreme. If the heavenly relationship between God’s creation are not as perfect and complete as that of the Trinity, that means unity in heaven is in a sense can be fragile.

Will every heavenly relationship (including relationship between a heavenly human and some other heavenly human) be as perfect and complete as the relationship that Trinity has?

 

[Eric_Hyom]

I wonder if the greatest commandments could describe a greatest good relationship?

God the Son, loves the Father with all his heart, soul, mind and strength.
Jesus loves all of us as he loves himself.

God the Father returns the same perfect love.

God the Father loves God the Son with all his heart, soul, mind and strength.
God the Father loves each and everyone of us as he loves himself.

Could the spirit be the power of God’s love; working through the perfection of the greatest commandments?

1 Samuel 18-1, NIV version

Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself.

Just a thought…

 

[fredystairs]

Short answer is “no” - our relationships will not be as perfect and complete as the relationships in the Trinity are. That is because we are finite creatures who are separate from each other; the persons in the Trinity are distinct but they are not separate as we are.

St. Basil wrote a letter (Letter XXXVIII) to his brother St. Gregory of Nyssa explaining the difference between essence (in the Greek ousia)(WHAT the thing is) and person (in the Greek hypostasis)(WHO the thing is). St. Basil wrote that (using three names) Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy all possess the same essence, i.e. they are all human. However, they are all separate examples of what humans are; they are separate persons. The operative word is that they are “separate”.

When St. Basil talks about the Trinity, the separation is not as distinct as in the case of humans. St. Basil, in describing the Trinity, says that there is a “seen a communion indissoluble and continuous”. So it seems that the relationship is different in the Trinity than it is in humans.

We don’t know what it will be like in heaven, but we will be tremendously happy nonetheless.

Hopes this helps.

Blessings