TRINITY DEFINITION (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 12:07:45 -0500 
From: Advantage Pest Control (Dan & Marie Dockins) <dockins@mail.ameritel.net>
To: bible@virginia.edu
Subject: TRINITY DEFINITION 

There seems to be a mistaken assumption that those who talk Trinity are
talking three separate Gods.  Please do not put words in my mouth.  I will
try to explain what I mean further.

I need to clear up that Trinitarians "Do not" believe in three different
Gods.  We truly believe that JESUS Christ is Himself the Lord God Almighty.
We believe in ONE GOD, and JESUS is the incarnation of God.  The language
about God existing in three persons does not literally mean there are three
people who are God.  Here is a shorthand definition of the Trinity that
should help:

Trinity is a shorthand way of saying that "God" *eternally* exists in three
personally distinct ways.  

Perhaps the problem is our inability to express the greatness and divine
reality of Our God.   I have also seen the Trinity as being referred to as
"three personal self distinctions within ONE DIVINE essence".  Another way I
have heard it expressed is God is in Himself a threefold center of life, His
life is not split in three.

My favorite though is that our ONE true GOD *eternally* exists in three
personally distinct ways.  

JESUS Christ, his sacrifice, his ressurection is  my glorious hope and very
center of my faith and life.

To GOD be the Glory.

IN JESUS Name,

Marie Dockins
Mechanicsville, MD

*****************
For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not
send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.  John 3:16-17
                               
    In Christ's Love

    Marie Dockins
    Mechanicsville, MD 
    apc@atc.ameritel.net
    mdockins@gpo.gov

For God so loved the world that He gave His One and only Son that whoever
believes in Him may have eternal life.  For God did not send His Son into the
world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. John 3:16-17