Kendall,
How is using ‘Godself’ for the reflexive anti-trinitarian? Isn’t it just a way of avoiding gendering God? God–Godself; isn’t any more unitarian than God–Himself.
#4: because it’s a denial of God’s own self-revelation as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The refusal to use the words of God and Jesus about God is unbelief.
Simple as that.
Or if I need to amplify this point: the Father is the Father of the Son and the Son is the Son of the Father. Anything else (including Plotinus’s numerical threeness) isn’t the Holy Trinity attested in Scripture and the Creeds.
“Godself” is it self the problem. It is hyper-precious, mannered, artificial, ersatz – the jargon of a gray and undisciplined mind, an unskillful way of allowing Mother Jesus and God the Mother to get in the door in disguise. Larry
“God’s revelation of Godself” (about 15 minutes in)…One hears this kind of anti-Trinitarian language from too many of TEC’s leaders these days.
Makes the heart sad.
He is a Gnostic on the TEC campaign trail, pushing 815’s agenda with determination and passion.
Frankly, I find him boring.
I won’t even waste my time or my ears or my eyes. They are all too precious to me.
Kendall,
How is using ‘Godself’ for the reflexive anti-trinitarian? Isn’t it just a way of avoiding gendering God? God–Godself; isn’t any more unitarian than God–Himself.
Mycomputer doesn’t listen. What, if anything did he say? L
#4: because it’s a denial of God’s own self-revelation as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The refusal to use the words of God and Jesus about God is unbelief.
Simple as that.
Or if I need to amplify this point: the Father is the Father of the Son and the Son is the Son of the Father. Anything else (including Plotinus’s numerical threeness) isn’t the Holy Trinity attested in Scripture and the Creeds.
“Godself” is it self the problem. It is hyper-precious, mannered, artificial, ersatz – the jargon of a gray and undisciplined mind, an unskillful way of allowing Mother Jesus and God the Mother to get in the door in disguise. Larry