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== How not to speak of the Trinity == | == How not to speak of the Trinity == | ||
=== God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit === | === God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit === | ||
I have no idea where this phrase comes from. It may be an evangelical formula. I never say anything like this in class, but I have seen it often enough on exams to suggest that it is a moderately popular way of approximating the doctrine of the Trinity. | |||
Each of the Persons is God, not just the First Person; to think otherwise is to fall into the [[Arian heresy]]. | |||
=== Three parts of God === | === Three parts of God === | ||
=== Three entities in God === | === Three entities in God === | ||
Revision as of 13:52, 1 November 2010
A proper definition
Jesus is the Revealer of Himself as God, the Son, and of God, the Father, and God, the Holy Spirit.
The Council of Nicea provided a definitive interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures against the interpretation given by the Arians. The Athanasian Creed dates to that era and explores and explains the doctrine in detail.
- Short definition
- "Three persons in one God."
What is three is persons.
What is one is being.
The three persons are all homoousios (Nicene Creed, Greek for "same substance") or consubstantial (Latin translation of homoousios, literally "substantial with [each other]").
How not to speak of the Trinity
God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit
I have no idea where this phrase comes from. It may be an evangelical formula. I never say anything like this in class, but I have seen it often enough on exams to suggest that it is a moderately popular way of approximating the doctrine of the Trinity.
Each of the Persons is God, not just the First Person; to think otherwise is to fall into the Arian heresy.