by DKleinecke <dkleinecke@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 1, 2008 at 01:41 AM
On Mar 30, 6:35 pm, AJA <ahnem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Bren" <BGK...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> news:P6YGj.6125$Pc2.5865@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > For some reason ..especially in South eastern U.S.
> > they are taken Jesus and made him God instead of a God aspect. Is he
> > the son of himself? If he is the son..then where is the mother/father?
>
> Father, Son and Holy Spirit = the One God. Jesus is not tradictionally
(or
> otherwise) nally referred to as an "aspect" by the Church.
>
> Blessings,
> Ann
I cannot resist noting that not all Christians are Trinitarians.
I have noticed the same phenomenon that Bren mentioned. As a modal
monarchist I have no difficulty with it. Jesus is just another name
for God (like Elohim and YHWH and Allah and so on). But it is a
theological innovation to specialize on Jesus.
I am bemused at the constant neglect of the Holy Ghost. If one really
believed in the Trinity I would expect one to emphasize the Spirit
over the other two persons.
After all, the Father and the Son are a long way off in time and the
Holy Spirit is with us always.
To me "Father" is the name we use for God when we think of the
creation. "Christ" (or Jesus) is the name we use for God when we think
about the intervention God made in Judea two thousand years ago and
"Holy Spirit' is the name we should use when we think of God in the
here and now. What name we should use for God when we think of
Judgment Day appears to still be up in the air.
All names. No persons.
