God is in Trinity....this is the teaching of the Bible.Quote:
God is 3-persons within the 1-God.
We dont actually know much more than that about God's nature......but clearly it is very different than our own.
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God is in Trinity....this is the teaching of the Bible.Quote:
God is 3-persons within the 1-God.
We dont actually know much more than that about God's nature......but clearly it is very different than our own.
no....that is the thing about God.
He is spirit, and so does not show up to our eyes.
God can manifest Himself in ways we can understand...he can speak out of a burning bush or above the ark....
But because his nature is always spirit we don't have any way to see him normally without God first doing something in some way, that somehow allows us to see "something" that we may never truly understand.
No...God is not a man, never was a man, can can never be a man....
the nature of God is beyond time...he is from everlasting to everlasting....not just very old, but not held by time....totally outside time and space.
This is why Jesus said that "before Abraham was born, I am"...and why he could not say, "Before Abraham was born, I have been"
To say "I have been" would mean that Jesus was trapped in time like we are...with one moment going after another.
But God is not held in time like that....there is no past, no future to him....nothing that he did before....nothing changes in God...he does not get older, was never younger.
In his pure spirit nature God is unseen to our human eyes.Quote:
As pure spirit, God has no **** to sit on...
For us however, God can manifest himself in ways that allow us to understand about him....aside from this we would have no knowledge of god at all.
But God makes use of wordings in the Bible, that have been picked to give us an idea of things we can never truly understand....
Thus when someone talks about the 'arm of god around the world' we understand this to be talking symbolically, and not physically.
there are other things like this listed in the Bible...the eyes of god, the voice of god, the wings of god, etc....the "face of god" is another such use of a symbolic wording to teach us about a concept that we would never truly understand other ways.
It's too bad Tom got himself BANNED...
It would have been interesting to talk more about the issues he had with God's nature.