Re: Quick Question About the Trinity

The early Christians were inclined to begin with the conception that
God is intutively grasped to such an extent that He exceeds the
limitations of human reasoning * and indeed this is true however they
were equally eager to retreat to the softer glow of rendering the
Infinite into definite images and especially through Jesus who made it
possible.

The Arian heretics unfortunately consider that the Trinity goes too
far hence the split between knowledge based life and love based
life.The true Christian knows both as a balance but the greater will
always be love.





"That it that is the pre-eminent Cause of all things intelligibly
perceived is not itself any of those things.

Again, ascending yet higher, we maintain that it is neither soul nor
intellect; nor has it imagination, opinion reason or understanding; nor
can it be expressed or conceived, since it is neither number nor order;
nor greatness nor smallness; nor equality nor inequality; nor
similarity nor dissimilarity; neither is it standing, nor moving, nor
at rest; neither has it power nor is power, nor is light; neither does
it live nor is it life; neither is it essence, nor eternity nor time;
nor is it subject to intelligible contact; nor is it science nor truth,
nor kingship nor wisdom; neither one nor oneness, nor godhead nor
goodness; nor is it spirit according to our understanding, nor
filiation, nor paternity; nor anything else known to us or to any other
beings of the things that are or the things that are not; neither does
anything that is know it as it is; nor does it know existing things
according to existing knowledge; neither can the reason attain to it,
nor name it, nor know it; neither is it darkness nor light, nor the
false nor the true; nor can any affirmation or negation be applied to
it, for although we may affirm or deny the things below it, we can
neither affirm nor deny it, inasmuch as the all-perfect and unique
Cause of all things transcends all affirmation, and the simple
pre-eminence of Its absolute nature is outside of every negation- free
from every limitation and beyond them all."

Dionysius the Areopagite
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