Text Box: * God has one name, YHWH, written over 7000 times in the Bible. Copying the scroll left people discouraged due to the intensive process involved in writing this most Holy name so many times. At some point, YHWH was commonly translated Lord/LORD. The Hebrew language ceased to be spoken soon after Jesus’ time, and the proper pronunciation of YHWH ceased with it. Scholars suggest it may be enunciated Yahweh, or more recently, Jehovah. Father * Knowledge - omniscient * The part of God, which possesses all knowledge of the past present and future. The Father exists in past present and future at the same time. (Psalm 90:2) * Since we are temporal beings, it is currently impossible for us to see the Father. Only His Son can see Him so far (John 1:18). Judgment represents when we will first see the father. Jesus * Power – Ability - Spoken Word - omnipotent * Son of God, conveys knowledge (Col 2:3) * The means by which the Father applied His love to His creation (Rom 8:39) * The part of God that experiences/makes temporal events * Jesus gets His knowledge from the Father, if Jesus knew everything like the Father does, He wouldn’t be able to experience the present because it would’ve already happened to Him. (See back of paper) Holy Spirit * Presence - omnipresent * Sent by Jesus, and comes from the Father (John 15:26) * Reference to the Holy Spirit isn’t just God’s presence since He is omnipresent. His Spirit is everywhere. Instead reference to the Holy Spirit refers To His presence taking some effect in conjunction His ability and knowledge. * Other than simply becoming aware of the Spirit, some effects include reminding of scripture (John 16:14) dreams, visions and revelations (Acts 2:17, 18). It is an undefiled conscience. * God’s influence with the Holy Spirit guides into all truth, and is the breath of life (Gen 2:7, John 16:13)  The realTrinity

 

 

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Text Box: Ø Jesus and the Holy Spirit are unique because they have been parts of God from the beginning (John 1:1 Genesis 1:2). They are also unique since all their attributes are direct attributes of God. Ø There is only one Spirit (1 Cor 12:4) Ø Jesus is “preparing a place for” us. Jesus forgives us on earth so the invisible Father will be able to accept those He saves. (Matt 6:14-15, 7:2, 9:6, John 14:3) Ø In Rom 1:4 God raised Jesus from the dead by the Holy Spirit, and in John 2:19, Jesus said "I will raise this temple" referencing that He will resurrect Himself. Jesus said, "I am the resurrection" in John 11:25, and in John 11:43 Jesus commands "Lazarus, come forth" showing His authority. Ø In John 11:42 Jesus said His Father always hears Him. When Jesus asked out loud why His Father has betrayed Him (Matt 27:46), it was because His Father no longer heard Jesus, indicating that every sin was on Jesus by then. Ø The Father did Jesus’ miracles in conjunction. It isn’t possible for Jesus to do miracles without the Father since Jesus power without the Fathers omniscience would be like shooting a gun with no ammunition. Ø Philippians 2:6 describe Jesus, as God in human form and that He understood his humble role. John 1:1-14 reveals we can't define God without including Jesus. Ø According to 2 Corinthians 8:9 and 1Timothy 3:16, Jesus is equal to God's veracity. (He is true) Ø Jesus, in John 10:30, reveals that He and His invisible Father are really two aspects of one God. For example: your visible skin and your invisible insides are really two aspects of your one body. The Father proved that Jesus is right in saying "I and the Father are one" by doing all the miracles through Jesus as John 10:38 states. Ø Is it possible to define God without Jesus in John 14:1-14? Ø John 12:45 was Jesus' way of saying He is the visible God, and the Father is the invisible God. Ø Only Jesus, "the firstborn" (Revelation 1:5), has seen God (John 1:18) and He is the active ruling of God (Revelation 1:5, Isaiah 9:6). Ø Jesus, "the visible image of an invisible God," is logically the best way for God to rule, since we exist as visible temporal beings (Hebrews 7:26). “Every created thing… [Worshiped Jesus]” (Rev 5:13). If Jesus were a created thing, this would be a contradictive scripture. Ø We are made in God’s image (Gen 1:26). Looking at a person, you would see a visible side of him, but there would be an invisible side. There is the backside and the person’s insides that are not visible. Mans image is visible and invisible. We also have an individual character (spirit), knowledge of past present and future, and the ability to rule. Our very mode of existence is in the image of God with: visible, invisible, spirit, knowledge, and power. Our individual spirit is a varied reflection of God’s one Holy Spirit. If everyone had the same character/spirit we would have no need for the gift of the Holy Spirit, we would be equals of God and behave just as Jesus Christ would. Ø To say Jesus is God, or the Holy Spirit is God isn’t accurate. Jesus isn’t the whole God; He is only the “Visible image of an invisible God” (Col 1:15), which is “the Son of God.” It’s more accurate to say they are aspects of God. Ø In order to understand this temporally relative relationship, try to think with temporal logic. Prior to creation God wouldn’t have manifest His power. His presence would have no dimension to contain. So before anything, there would only be the Father. God would know of His power and presence like He knew of earth in Gen 1:2. But until He manifests it in time, it wouldn’t have existed (as If God could change). I realize this is difficult to grasp, but this is why we can’t call Jesus or the Holy Spirit God. Saying so would be implying that God isn’t eternal (not necessarily intentionally) since Jesus and the Holy Spirit are temporally relative. Ø Ignatius wrote to Polycarp in the year 105 bc: “Await the one who is above every season. The eternal, the invisible, the one who for our sake became visible, the untouched, the impassible, who for our sake suffered, who endured in every way for our sake.” ©2004 Kai Napohaku

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Son of God” clarified and illustrated

 

          Think of what it's like to watch a good movie. It will hold your interest and make you anticipate what will happen. However, after watching a movie enough times and memorizing it all, it won't have the same effect. Think of what it is like to watch a movie that you've seen "a million times." In a way it seems like everything has happened already. You can no longer anticipate what might happen because you already know exactly what will happen. Everyone can probably agree that experiencing something good for the first time is most enjoyable and is also desirable.

 

                The vast majority of people who believe in God will agree that He is omniscient - He knows everything. So to God it is like everything has already happened. Jesus, His apostles and prophets have told that the Son of God learns from the Father. This is why I came to the conclusion that Jesus is the desire of God to experience His creation, since God's omniscience would be like watching a movie that He has seen an infinite amount of times. This interpretation claims that Jesus is not omniscient. This doesn't mean that He is at all ignorant about anything that He knows about creation - His figurative movie. It implies that Jesus doesn’t know everything in order to experience it like watching the best movie for the first time when all He's seen is the trailer. The trailer representing what Jesus does know about the future.

 

                This analogy gives a better understanding of Jesus’ role, however it is incomplete; God wouldn’t get bored of creation like we get bored of a movie. The idea that “Jesus is the desire of God to experience His creation” doesn’t explain why. A simple fact of the Bible is that all mankind has rejected God in some way. It eventually got to the point where the people God chose specifically (the Jews) became atheistic in their hearts, or in other words, they questioned whether there really is a God like the one they are taught about. This has been happening on and off within the Jews. Their stubborn nature lead them to doubt the evidence God gave them simply because it didn’t happen to them personally.

 

                When God opened the door to the gentiles, the same thing happened. It is in a sense a part of the human condition. God doesn’t desire to experience His creation like we are entertained by a movie; rather He desires it because of His creations stubbornness. Humans insist on “a sign,” yet they quickly forget when God actually gives them one. Jesus is the personification of God’s love in a visible sign; this is the sense of God’s desire to experience. If man did not sin, then we would need no visible sign to prove God’s existence. Yet there is a deeper meaning behind “Jesus is the visible image of an invisible God,” (Col 1:15) and “all things were created through Him” (John 1:3) than just a visible sign.

 

                Now in order to further illustrate “God’s desire to experience His creation,” think the light in a copying machine. As it scans, the left would be our past, and the right would be our future. As the scanner scanned over a paper that represents creation, it comes to life. God’s light is life, and life is existence. Jesus represents the light of the scanner and God experiencing His creation. As Jesus scanned over God’s creation, it came to life and experienced it’s existence with God.

 

                Gen 1:2 says “the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over its surface.” This is an illogical description. If the earth had no form, was empty and dark, then it wasn’t earth yet. It is illogical until it is looked at from the perspective of Yahweh. Prior to Jesus scanning over creation to give it a beginning and subsequent timeline, it would be dark, as in it wasn’t alive with light yet. This is basically saying God knew it would be, but until the light Jesus gave came across like the scanner that starts from the left of the paper, earth would only exist in God’s omniscience. God sits outside the confines of time just as the copying machine exist before it scans the paper. To the Father, everything existed before it came to be. However, from our perspective we couldn’t exist until Jesus gave us our timeline. Without a timeline we would simply be God and there could be no evil. Without our time, we could not be individuals. So any reference to an individual is a reference to a temporal person, so Jesus is the temporal aspect of God and His ability to experience time. Our existence depends on temporal nature.

 

                Those who receive eternal life will have their sins removed like they never existed. God wouldn’t have known about the evil that has crept into creation unless we had a timeline since it wouldn’t have existed. As I confuse further with clarification, things that don’t exist represent things that God could not know. This may sound like we have a free ride as sinners if we are destined to hell, because at first glance hell appears to be non-existence. But the gloomy reality is un-forgiven sinners have existed, so they will continue. Or, they happened so they have consequences, as long as God has use of them. So only the forgiven sinners can have their sins forgotten as if the sin never existed.

 

                Just as we can’t say we existed before our beginning, so to we can’t say Jesus was before our timeline started because He is God experiencing creation. “before” is a strictly temporal term, and Jesus is the temporal aspect of God. God is unrestricted to time, so He is simply “I am” when asked when. The references of Jesus as “firstborn” don’t mean He was created. It means His beginning is our beginning in temporal understanding. Jesus was our beginning in the sense that the invisible God had no visible image to be seen, until there was something to see Him. If light has nothing to illuminate, or if there was no matter for light-to-light up, was it really light? This question should intrigue people who are interested in science since science believes that light has no particles or mass. Think of it this way: if there were no mass, there would be no forces since forces are influences on mass. (Keep in mind that God’s “light” is life and existence). These concepts are the heart with the mystery of the trinity. To contemplate God’s position outside time as He relates to temporal states is inconceivable to a point for a finite mind. Jesus had both a beginning, and an eternal state; “I Am He” (John 18:6).                             

 

PS. I’m not ignorant of traditional Trinitarian theology. I understand it better than most. Traditional theology states coequality of three individual persons, and specifies that they are individual in role and function. This is both the contradiction and the fundamental concept of the traditional trinity. Coequality means that you can replace one person with the other, and would state the Father is Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and vice versa. Trinitarian theology strongly opposes this, even though they are blindly opposing there own understanding. Traditional Trinitarians oppose modalism in support of their incomplete conception of coequality. It should be the other way around to a degree. Modalism is the non-contradictive concept, but it is harder for everyone to understand. This is why I am writing this article. It’s an attempt to explain a deep and involved concept. Even traditional Modalism has flaws, such as not confessing co-eternality.          

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