Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Concerning the Trinity

I've had this concept in my head for a while now and I just thought I'd share it.

God is to His creation as the water is to the ripple, or the air to the soundwave. But He is also Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Three distinct persons, or hypostases, in one Being, or ousia.

So, my thought is this, God the Father is the Person of God who is "physically" static in relationship to time and space as time and space pass through Him. Spacetime is in motion while God the Father is at rest as it passes through Him. God the Son is the Person of God with whom it is possible to interact and know in a physical, tangible way. Unlike God the Father, God the Son operates within Spacetime and follows its motion. So God the Holy Spirit is the Person of God who also operates within spacetime and yet is otherwise unknowable. Nor is He intended to be knowable by the creation. The Person whom we know God through and can know Him through is the Son.

When we are united with the Son we become one with Him and others are able to know God by interacting with us because they are not interacting with us they are interacting with Him. Our union with Him is realized when we choose to have compassion and love the other person. Thus as we love the other so the other comes to know God through us and we also become God incarnate through our union with God incarnate, Jesus Christ as He is incarnated within us through our choice to let go of our fears and insecurities and embrace His all consuming love for us and for the other person. Love is God in motion in time and space.

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