Comments on: Is the doctrine of the Incarnation prior to & the source of trinitarian doctrine? - Part 2 http://trinities.org/blog/archives/84 theories about the father, son, and holy spirit Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:06:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: BlueNight http://trinities.org/blog/archives/84/comment-page-1#comment-9079 BlueNight Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:35:33 +0000 http://trinities.org/blog/archives/84#comment-9079 As an amateur theologian and philosopher, my focus on the Trinity was originally the embodiment of my larger personal search for Who/What God Is. He had already spoken to me, telling me that He loves me, but I was ready for the next step. When He first directed me to the doxology at the end of the Lord's Prayer, then to various other passages, He was anticipating my intellectual awakening with a juicy morsel of Truth that turned out to be the appetizer for a neverending feast. The doctrine of the Trinity catches the mind with its apparent inherent mathematical contradiction. I believe that God has shown me a viable answer as to HOW the three Persons are three, and HOW God is one. As a fan of science fiction, who would have been a materialist humanist atheist if God had not intervened directly, I love theories. I enjoy nitpicking the apparent mistakes in Star Trek and Star Wars, and then coming up with a plausible explanation that satisfies all aspects of the situation. "In what senses, if any, is Incarnation theory “prior to” any trinitarian doctrine?" Interesting question. I would have to say that the only way I see this happening is that one must posit a multi-Person God to have a simultaneous Incarnation and Father in Heaven, and settle on the number of Persons afterward. In other words, the doctrine of the Trinity (or some other doctrinal multi-Person theory) is the basis of the Incarnation doctrine; which, however, informs the multi-Person doctrine with the answer, "at least two." As an amateur theologian and philosopher, my focus on the Trinity was originally the embodiment of my larger personal search for Who/What God Is. He had already spoken to me, telling me that He loves me, but I was ready for the next step.

When He first directed me to the doxology at the end of the Lord’s Prayer, then to various other passages, He was anticipating my intellectual awakening with a juicy morsel of Truth that turned out to be the appetizer for a neverending feast.

The doctrine of the Trinity catches the mind with its apparent inherent mathematical contradiction. I believe that God has shown me a viable answer as to HOW the three Persons are three, and HOW God is one.

As a fan of science fiction, who would have been a materialist humanist atheist if God had not intervened directly, I love theories. I enjoy nitpicking the apparent mistakes in Star Trek and Star Wars, and then coming up with a plausible explanation that satisfies all aspects of the situation.

“In what senses, if any, is Incarnation theory “prior to” any trinitarian doctrine?” Interesting question. I would have to say that the only way I see this happening is that one must posit a multi-Person God to have a simultaneous Incarnation and Father in Heaven, and settle on the number of Persons afterward.

In other words, the doctrine of the Trinity (or some other doctrinal multi-Person theory) is the basis of the Incarnation doctrine; which, however, informs the multi-Person doctrine with the answer, “at least two.”

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