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DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY AND 3.4 Three Persons but Same Essence or Nature (al-Dzat) 3.5 Relationship Between God The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit 3.6 The Essence (al-Dzat) of God the Father is in the Son and the Holy Spirit 3.7 God Is Not Splitting Into Three Parts 3.8 The Three Divine Persons Do Not Exist Side By Side In The Divine World 3.9 In the Trinity No One is Greater, Less, Separate Nor Subordinate One to the Other 3.10 Jesus Could Not Be Separated From the Father and the Holy Spirit 3.12 Jesus: God That Became Man (al-Hulul wa al-Ittihad) 3.14 As A Perfect Sin Offering For Mankind: God Became Man 3.15 The Trinity: Christians Were Themselves Confused
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3.6 The essence (al-Dzat) of the Father is in the Son and the Holy Spirit
Although Jesus Christ is God the Son and the attribute of Life is God the Holy Spirit both of them are at the same time not a lesser or a junior God but One to God the Father in every sense of the word. Why? Because the substance, essence, or nature (al-Dzat) of God the Father is in the Son and the Holy Spirit. Concerning the relationship between God the Father and God the Son, the Gospel according to John has: “The Father and I are One.” (10:30, NLT). Chapter One verse 15 & 19 of Paul’s epistle to the Colossians contains the following statements: “Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.” (NLT) “For God in his fullness was pleased to live in Christ.” (NLT) To make it simpler, “Whoever sees Jesus sees The Father”: “Philip said, Lord, show us the Father and we will be satisfied. Jesus replied, Philip, don’t you even know who I am, even after all the time I have been with you? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father ! So why are you asking to see him? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?” (John 14:9-10, NLT) Concerning the relationship between God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, The Catechism of the Catholic Church stresses that: “Because of that unity the Father is wholly in the Son and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Son wholly in the Father and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Son.”[1] Thus, because of their containing one another, Gregory of Nazianzus, one of the Church Fathers says: “No sooner do I conceive of the One than I am illumined by the splendor of the Three; no sooner do I distinguish Three than I am carried back into the One. When I think of any of the Three, I think of him as the whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater part of what I am thinking escapes me.”[2] |
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