To Three persons in one God

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I was recently corrected by someone on this forum that the CCC say the Trinity is Three persons in ONE God. Which he was correct. But I was a bit upset because my pastor of my parish said that God the Father and God the Holy Spirit were both Spirits so in writing my post I went by what my pastor said instead of looking it up in the CCC. Needless to say I was embarrassed and deleted the post. This is not the first time I was told bad theology.

My advice is always look it up in the CCC first before putting it up it will save you the embarrassment God bless.
 
God is one, and is pure spirit. And Christ is God incarnate. Not having heard what the priest actually said, it is not possible to comment on it; you may have heard it correctly or may not, or may have misinterpreted what the priest said. If so, you would not be alone; I have had people say “Father said…” and given I also heard what Father said, they did not quote him exactly, but gave what they thought he said - which it wasn’t.

God the Father is spirit. God the Holy Spirit is spirit. And they, two of the three persons of the Trinity, are one God.

And from that statement, it is easy for someone else to misrepresent what I just said.
 
And, of course, Jesus is in heaven is Spirit as it is a spiritual realm.
 
I think the concern with calling all three persons of the Trinity “spirits” is we fall into that trap of thinking of God as something amorphous like “God spray” as the Pope said in his quote that got discussed in great detail on a different thread. The Pope wanted us to see each person of the Trinity as something real and concrete, not just an aura or “spray” wafting around. Hence the use of the term “person”.
 
Shakuhachi said:
And, of course, Jesus is in heaven is Spirit as it is a spiritual realm.
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I think Jesus has a physical body now. Glorified, but physical. From the CCC:

659 "So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.“532 Christ’s body was glorified at the moment of his Resurrection, as proved by the new and supernatural properties it subsequently and permanently enjoys.533 But during the forty days when he eats and drinks familiarly with his disciples and teaches them about the kingdom, his glory remains veiled under the appearance of ordinary humanity.534 Jesus’ final apparition ends with the irreversible entry of his humanity into divine glory, symbolized by the cloud and by heaven, where he is seated from that time forward at God’s right hand.535 Only in a wholly exceptional and unique way would Jesus show himself to Paul “as to one untimely born”, in a last apparition that established him as an apostle.”

Kind of confusing in parts, at least to me.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
I think the concern with calling all three persons of the Trinity “spirits” is we fall into that trap of thinking of God as something amorphous like “God spray” as the Pope said in his quote that got discussed in great detail on a different thread. The Pope wanted us to see each person of the Trinity as something real and concrete, not just an aura or “spray” wafting around. Hence the use of the term “person”.
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I suppose the word “Person” could confuse some and lead them to anthropomorphize God, which would also be a mistake. Only Jesus has been human.

But I agree with your post.
 
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Yes, I also think that the pastor calling God the Father a “spirit” was trying to avoid this anthropomorphization and make sure people understood that Jesus was the only “person” who had been human. When I was a child, my mother also taught me that God was a “spirit” but also that there were “three persons in one God”. I never thought too deeply about it but I can see where there is a bit of a conflict there that could cause one to be confused.
 
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A perfect immortal body.

You know how our current body is wrapped around our spiritual soul?

The glorified body is instead wrapped in the spiritual soul.

Jesus prior to his passion in his natural body: (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)

Jesus after Resurrection in his glorified body:
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There is a Natural body(the flesh) and there is
a Spiritual body(1 Cor. 15:44) Jesus has put on
a Spiritual body in heavenly glory and when He
comes again He will be in His Spiritual Glorified
form(“We shall be like Him, b/c we will see Him
as He is” 1 Jn 3:2)
 
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You sound like my parents, they put the priest before there own son that’s because they don’t question!!! The Church that’s why they say you must have heard wrong. There are some priest that don’t believe in hell today believe it or not I’ve heard it out of a priest mouth. That it is a figurative place. The priest are human and can make mistakes.
 
But Jesus also has his physical body. Remember when he appeared to his apostles after the three days. They couldn’t believe it was him then he asked for something to eat he sat down and ate a piece of fish.
 
Webster’s Dictionary says:
One of the three modes of being in the trinitarian Godhead as understood by Christians. The unitary personality of Christ that unites the Divine and human Nature’s.
 
My parents said the same thing that God is a spirit but if he was a spirit how could he walk with Adam in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3:8
 
ConstantLearner said:
I suppose the word “Person” could confuse some and lead them to anthropomorphize God, which would also be a mistake. Only Jesus has been human.

But I agree with your post.
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It’s an English language issue. We don’t have the exact word that they have in Greek. It came down to Persona vs Person for English. Person won.
 
phil19034 said:
It’s an English language issue. We don’t have the exact word that they have in Greek. It came down to Persona vs Person for English. Person won.
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I can see why Person was chosen. Persona sounds rather fake. American English has made it that way.
 
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I don’t think anyone said God was a body, but Christ, the Second Person in the Holy Trinity has a glorified body.
 
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