Understanding Christianity

[Divinus Arma]

I don't buy that all the way.

We have:

God the Father

God the Son

God the Holy Ghost.

Now, since God has existed since the beggining, he cannot be divided, be more or less, he cannot grow diminish etc. the Son must have existed co-eternally with the father.

If the Father were to create the Son then there would be a divine liniage, with a beggining in time, but God is whole, eternal and indivisable.

So, the Son has to have existed since the beggining.

I agree. Did I communicate some other idea?

This does not mean that Jesus has existed since the beggining, but that the entity we call the God the Son has. Various instances for him to pop up are the Garden of Eden and the wrestling match in Genesis, as well as, perhaps, Mount Sinai etc.

Here is the part that is fuzzy to me. Are we saying that a divine being, whom we call the Son, existed along side the Father?

I can't agree with that because it diminishes the divinity of the Son and seperates the identity of the Son from the Father. Either the Son is God or he isn't God.

My real problem with the traditionally accepted viewpoint of the Trinity is the narrow language used to describe each. I think the titles used effectively serve a population that is incapable of thinking critically as historically has been the case with humanity. However, as we have developed and grown as beings, our intellectual capacity for understanding the nature of Christ, God, and the Spirit has also developed and grown.

So why cling to antiquated and indescriptive terminology when more thoughtful and consequential analysis can be applied?


In our modern era, if we believers fail to demonstrate the relationship of God to humanity and existence in a way that is scientific and analytical, we undermine the very purpose that God has created for us. In challenging convention and growing spiritually and intellectually, we are able to breach the walls of theory and mystery and enter into a new reality and a new relationship with the Lord.