basicallyblues wrote:

>
> Do those verses say that God, Christ, and the holy spirit constitute
a
> Trinitarian Godhead, that the three are equal in substance, power,
and
> eternity? No, they do not, no more than listing three people, such as
> Tom, Dick, and Harry, means that they are three in one.
>
And what about you?  You are 1) body and 2) soul.  You have diversity
and yet there is a unity of the two.

What about the believer "in Christ."  This is not Shiva who marries a
woman, she disappears and he becomes neuter.  This is true diversity of
persons and yet a union which cannot be dissolved.  "They be one as We
are one."  What's He talking about?  At the very least He is Himself
revealing that unity and diversity are a fundamental aspect of not only
man in relationship to himself, but of the believer in his relationship
with God.

There simply has to be a uni-plural archetype or this and the things I
have listed have no basis whatsoever.  How can it be said that "God is
love" and that love is eternal if God is and ever has been, eternally
singular?  Love requires relationship between persons.  Two rocks
cannot love one another and a single person to love himself?  Even
pagan understanding declares this to be"fallen."  Yet you have no
object which God can have an eternal relationship with except Himself.

And this is the dilemma which you cannot give an answer to.  God is
truly love.  There's no denial of the Scriptural declaration.  God is
also eternal and prior to all that was created.  Therefore, inorder for
God to be love, He has to have another Person(s) to communicate that
loving to.  Only Trinitarianism offers that.

This is so very simple.  Yet you reject it for but one reason only -you
have been so indoctrinated to be "correct" that you have forgotten
quest for the Truth.  It's an oximoran, yet what you display is dead
orthodoxy.  And dead orthodoxy is no orthodoxy at all.  God MUST be
uni-plural to give meaning to man and the universe He created for him.
You opperate on this very premise, yet you refuse to accept it.  "Lord,
Lord!"

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