The Law of Non-Contradiction and the Trinity

Ravi Zacharias addresses a packed audience at Penn State University and answers a question about the law of non-contradiction and the Trinity.

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[beardbreath]

I believe the best way of explaining it is this:

God is infinite

Infinity + Infinity + infinity = Infinity

God + Jesus + Holy Spirit = The God Head

infinity is an unreal number, that is to say, it operates under different parameters than 1, 2, and 3. 5 - 2 = 3. BUT infinity - 2 = infinity. You cannot take away from it, and everything that is added to it becomes it.

I personally believe that mathematically, God can be best understood as infinity, and satan can best be described as 0.

[infinitemika]

beautiful

[infinitemika]

beautiful

[iamTOTALLYredeemed]

@Szygyify

I believe that the Trinity is implicitly taught in scripture, certainly with the relation between the Father and the Son in the ontological trinity. The economic trinity is very explicit in scripture, so explicit in fact that opposers will try and use them "against" the doctrine, or at least what they think it is (very often I find they don't have a clue).

[Szygyify]

The mystery of the doctrine trinity is this: it's so mysterious that it's neither explicitly nor implicitly found in the Scriptures. One has to read back into Scripture concepts,terminology, metaphysics, symbology and meanings that were either antithetical or aposteriori to the revealed teachings of the Hebrews in Pre-Rabbinic 1st and 2nd Temple Judaism/ and to the Judaeo Christianity of Paul.

[Szygyify]

The tacit acceptance of Trinity allows the believer to enter into a Holy Spirit derived ecstatic mode which allows one to feel the divine harmony and to reconcile the paradoxical the apparent contradictions to peer into the deep hidden world behind the words Father, Son, Holy Spirit for these three reveal an archetypal metaphysical realm that allows one to see more than the written word but to sense in the heart the the primordial Ur concept that is the Trinity.

[Szygyify]

This binding of plurality(persons) to unity(ousia) explains the mystery of Scriptural Binitarian Incarnation that through progressive revelation also reveals the personhood of the Holy Spirit as the parakletos or helper the 3rd co equal co eternal person of the One Godhead(Divine Nature). This is all found in Scripture, the Trinity is so simple that any child can understand it!

[Szygyify]

"God is One What Three Who's" Dr. James White... The Triune Godhead is a "thing". The God of the Scriptures can be defined as a "What" and "Thing" since the unity of the 3 persons is the Divine Mono-Ousia:the substance, essence, nature, hypostases, emanation,effulgence that we worship under the rubric of Monotheism. Since Ideas are eternal and the Son was the Idea of the Father the Son is therefore Eternal, since the Son is the morphe and eikon of the Father, the Incarnation binds them.

[Szygyify]

"Speed read the Gospel of John looking for the Trinity and it's all over the place" Erik Thoennes

[Szygyify]

THE TRINITY is the core of who God is it's always disturbing to realize this, because we pay so little attention to the TRINITY and it's NOT this THING THAT'S EXPLICIT and out front, it's this THING that's so background and backdrop and so foundational that we miss it a lot in explicit ways, but you can't be a Christian unless you at least have a tacit understanding of the Trinity. Biola University Prof. Erik Thoennes