In this paper, I wish not to exalt or boast in my self, for nothing good can come from man. Our Lord our God is so set apart, so divine that our finite minds cannot understand or comprehend spiritual matters. Even though we are torn in our mindset, split between our pre-existing flesh. As well as our new and reborn minds and eyes set into place by the promise of love by the blood, with the marriage of the Holy Spirit. In this paper, I wish to express the mystery of the Holy trinity, from the past to now in the present. Knowing that the promise and the mystery of God, is still the same since the start of time, till now, and to the end of the world.
So to begin, we understand that our God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. There are so many scriptures that display these attributes in his word. When we talk about the Trinity we mean Tri-union or Triune, which means threeness in oneness. Before we describe this we must understand how man’s relationship to God and how the doctrine of the Trinity effects how we as humans look upon our selves. However since the fall of man we have lost our contact to God due to us hiding our eyes from the righteousness of the Lord. So let’s look at before the fall when God created man in Genesis1:26, God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” The question must be asked, what does it mean to be made in the image of God? Many in the past say it is either God talking to his angelic court, or even that we as humans are made in the image of angels. This argument is not very convincing because when it describes creation angels are not even mentioned until Genesis 3, when we are first introduced to Satan. Also note that in the Hebrew there it is the word (elō-him) or God designating...
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...ey would wear white clothes to remember the lord and his holiness, not to make them holy but to exalt God. Also in the life of Christ when he died on Friday and he rose on Sunday, there are many more passages of the number three, one cannot ignore that the number 3 is a divine Characteristic of God. If we read Genesis 18:1-21, If you note in v. 2-3 Abram is visited by three men, and note that he calls them Lord, for he knows that he is being visited by God. In the Hebrew for Lord in this instance is completely different than anywhere in the Old Testament, the word is (‘a-dō-nāy). Which is another translation for the word Master, it is great to see this displayed because our God is a good master who bought us out of slavery of sin and has now freed us and made us his slaves of righteousness. Another Scripture to display the idea of God in threeness is also Isaiah 6:8,
The medieval theologian Julian of Norwich was a mystic, writer, anchoress and spiritual director for her time. She is gaining in popularity for our time as she provides a spiritual template for contemplative prayer and practice in her compilation of writings found in Revelations of Divine Love. The insightful meditations provide the backdrop and basis for her Trinitarian theology’s embrace of God’s Motherhood found in the Trinity. Her representative approach of the all-encompassing unconditional love of a mother who nurtures, depicts Christ as our Mother ascending to the placement of Second hood within the Trinity while giving voice to the duality of God.
The prayer evokes the many theological events about the relationship between God and man, and the omnipresence and power God encompasses. The prayer reveals the prefiguration of the sacrament of baptism and how the power and purpose of water, created by God, has through theological history and its relationship with present faithful. The sign of the cross, on the threshold of the celebration, marks with the imprint of Christ the one who is going to belong to him and signifies the grace of the redemption Christ won for man by his cross. The different effects of Baptism are signified by the perceptible elements of the sacramental rite. Immersion in water symbolizes not only death and purification, but also regeneration and renewal. Thus the two principal effects are purification from sins and new birth in the Holy
St. Theophan of Vysha (+1894), better known as Theophan the Recluse, is one of the great 19th century Russian luminaries of the Orthodox Church whose light reaches even unto us in the present, heterodox West. Being virtually our contemporary, he was nevertheless steeped in the ancient Tradition of the Fathers. Having faced in his life existential and intellectual conditions very similar to our own, he is a bridge to authentic spiritual life in Christ, making the wisdom of the Christian Tradition easily accessible to us. This should not be particularly surprising, for as Christ himself tells us, a light is kindled not to be hidden under a basket but to be held aloft to shed light for all. One must stubbornly persist in blindness not to behold this Light Who has been providentially kindled in St. Theophan for our sake in these latter days.
Ernest Holmes presented the concept of a trinity that differed significantly from the traditional Christian trinity. [review chart on pg. 16] His trinity includes the physical, while most other religious teachings exclude the physical from considerations and representations of a spiritual reality. Holmes begins with the premise that reality is infinite, and then follows with the proposition that every aspect and manifestation of it is one with it. Therefore, the physical and spiritual cannot be separate.
What does it mean to say the one God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit? How is God best understood? How can the Church communicate this today?
In the fifth discourse, the Son of God is described to further reflect himself about his unique and intimate eternal activity. First the author describes the production of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is said to be the bond between the divine persons. And the Son of God wanted his own person to be the producer. This would be the bond between the human and the divine being. The author describes the Holy Spirit as being a person that proceeds from the Holy Trinity. It is the bond that creates a sense of unity among the divine Persons and that they are perfectly united in the “unity of the Holy Spirit” yet they still are able to maintain their distinct natures (pg 134). The author also mentions two mysteries. The first mystery is described as having a divine person whom we adore, uniting two persons. And the second mystery is described as having a divine person whom we adore by uniting the two natures, one which is divine and the other being human. “He contemplates, adores and imitates the unity of the Holy Spirit, who is the third Person in the order of the Holy Trinity and who, by his nature, is the eternal bond between the two Persons from whom he proceeds.” (pg 135). All together the Son of God is our personal love and sacred unity. He is uniquely expressed and distinctly represented by “the states and qualities of this divine mystery, which is in a perfect relationship with what is ineffable in eternity, as well as being a living portrait of God” (135).
From the Catholic observation point, the Church presents two parts: One representing its divine nature as the untarnished body of Christ, and one direc...
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In the Old Testament everything is scarttered and it is hard to explain the exact meaning of the word trinity. However, in the Old Testament, they set up the idea of the trinity. God is the creator of this universe and he created this world by speaking his word and sending out his spirtit. Bavinck wrote that God’s “word” is the objective principle of creation and his “spirit” is the subjective principle. According to him, the world came into being by threefold causes, the word of God, word hypostatized as wisdom and the spirit of God. In other word, the Old Testament refers to God's word, his spirit, and Wisdom. This t...
...station of the relationship between divinity and mankind, but also a mathematical masterpiece which can represent the harmonious and complete nature of Gods divine existence. It is understood that the nature of man is finite due to the limitations of mortality while on the contrary; the nature of the Trinity is infinite and everlasting. The relationship between the two is described through the sacrifice of Christ to save man from his mortal sins and the relationships are presented in the different levels, which indicate that man and God’s roles are very different and are of different significances. Masaccio’s use of perspective also serves as an explanation for Christ’s simultaneous sort of “divine mortality” and how this can only be explained and accounted for through the faith of his sacrifice and how this will lead man to salvation and the overcoming of mortality.
Revelations of Divine Love is a 14th century masterpiece written by Julian of Norwich. This book is an account of St. Julian’s sixteen different mystical revelations in which she had encountered at a time of great suffering and illness. St. Julian focussed on the many “mysteries of Christianity.” Through her many revelations she encountered God’s vast love, the existence of evil, God’s heart for creation, the father and mother-heart of God, and the need to obey her Father in Heaven. Amongst these revelations the most powerful was the revelation of God’s love and character. Revelations of Divine Love is a wonderful source of revelation to connect a reader to the Father.
The Bible never makes of the specific reference of the trinity, the Bible does talk about the divine existence of each of the three members of the Trinity, God (The Father), The Son (Jesus Christ), and the Spirit (The Holy Spirit). It is still a complex idea for me to understand fully but scripture does indeed tell of the work and existence of the trinity.
The doctrine of the Trinity, as seen in the Christian bible, is primary to the Christian faith. The word “Trinity” does not actually appear in the bible; it is a theological label meant to summarize certain teachings of certain passages of scripture, and is crucial to properly understand what God is like, how He relates to us, and how we relate to Him. It may also raise many difficult questions including what does it mean that God is a Trinity? While it is difficult for us to fully understand everything about the trinity, it is quite possible to answer questions like this one and come to a solid grasp of what it means for God to be three in one.
Edward Spencer celebrated allegorical writing with his classic romantic epic "The Faerie Queen." Even as Milton criticized the use of allegory, he indubitably implemented the use of it in "Paradise Lost." Although Milton does use allegory, his use of the form tremendously differs from that of Spencer. His application of allegory is a reversal of the typical Spenserian allegory.
...ed a part to him. First we see God as omnipotent then we see God asking where Adam and Eve are hiding (Not being omnipotent). With the creation of mankind God loses some part of his Godliness and he gains some humanity. God has a little human in himself and we have a little God in us. But the main point still is the same, God is the authority over man and will remain this way. I also feel that the God in the bible is truly no different than the Gods of Greece for example. The God of ancient Greece acted just like humans, the only difference was that they were immortal. The God of the bible seems to act just like humans, shows love, anger, regret, learns from mistakes and so forth. So in the end God shows flaws and learns from mistakes. God is like humans, maybe this is why we don?t understand God sometimes because we can?t understand other people and their actions.