Re: What is the Trinity

In article <6Huif.9997$%w2.9541@trnddc07>, Toasty says...
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>With some research the writers of www.themeofthebible.com have written
>a book on the subject.

After sampling the articles on that same site, I would hazard a guess that it is
a bad book, based on sloppy 'research'.

After all, the article on Trinity contains _serious_ distortions of the dogma
such as the following howler:

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The orthodox Trinity doctrine denies the sonship of Christ, for if Christ, the
Son of God, was some type of projection from the one God and part of the being
of God, then He could not properly be called a Son of the Father, as was
demonstrated by the Catholic acceptance of the doctrine of "eternal generation."
End quote-----------

Even the mere use of the word 'projection' is already a serious error, so
serious that it shows the author has NO IDEA what s/he is writing about. So is
his/her use of the phrase "PART of the being of God".

What? Hasn't LYnnford ever heard the Nicene Creed? Hasn't she ever heard how the
Creed is introduced with the following words?

Let us love one another that we may confess Father Son and Holy Spirit
the Trinity, consubstantial and INDIVISIBLE?

You _cannot_, even in a mental experiment, divide the indivisible. That IS what
'consubstantial' means, whether in this Preface from the Liturgy, or from the
Nicene Creed itself: the Son is CONSUBSTANTIAL to the Father.

But as if that was not bad enough, Lynnford's denial of Eternal Generation shows
that s/he does not understand John 1:1-3.

No, the Orthodox dogma of the Trinity does NOT deny His Sonship. On the
contrary: it expresses the Sonship as being more perfect Sonship than any
sonship among created things. THAT is the reason for the mystery.

> It is a free download under the articles section
>"Identifying the Unknown God".

Free, and not quite worth what it costs;)

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Quidquid boni habet tribuat illi a quo factus est
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