Sunday, August 1, 2021

Trinitarian (Latin model) Apologist Struggles on the Father, Son, and Spirit being Distinct “Persons”

 

So, and the terms "Father" and "Son" are personal terms; they're relational terms. Alright, so, if you will, what we call the three persons could be thought of three relational centres or three relational points of reference that you know, each is a person, which we call a person, each is relationally-oriented toward the others in this kind of mutual fellowship, mutual union. But they're not persons in the human sense; Jesus is a human being of course, through the Incarnation, but as a divine, as the divine Son, he shares the same incorporeal divine natures as the Father and the Holy Spirit and yet they still have this interrelationship--the Father sent the Son, this is a personal act. One person sending another. Jesus goes back to heaven. The Father and the Son send the Holy Spirit to be another paraclete. That's what we would call "personal language," "personal action." (Is the Holy Spirit God or Just an 'Active Force'? w/ Robert M. Bowman Jr., beginning at the 1:19:35 mark)

 

On the claim that "God" is incorporeal by nature, see:


Lynn Wilder vs. Latter-day Saint (and Biblical) Theology on Divine Embodiment


Andrew Malone on God being "Invisible" and 1 Timothy 1:17 and 6:16