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The One God exists in Three Persons and One Substance. Strictly speaking, the doctrine is a mystery that can "neither be known by unaided human reason", nor "cogently demonstrated by reason after it has been revealed"; even so "it is not contrary to reason" being "not incompatible with the principles of rational thought". [125]
Origen (d. 251) used ousia in defining God as one genus of ousia, while being three, distinct species of hypostasis: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Synods of Antioch condemned the word homoousios (same essence) because it originated in pagan Greek philosophy.
In the book's final essay, Mill explores a number of arguments for the existence of God, using a methodology based on evidence. He argues that religion should be "reviewed as a strictly scientific question" and should be tested in the same way that other questions in science are examined.
The unchangeableness of God is significance because the most important things do not change! Rev. J. Patrick Street is the lead pastor of Redeemer Church in Marion. He can be reached at ...
The simple, indeed, (I will not call them unwise and unlearned,) who always constitute the majority of believers, are startled at the dispensation (of the Three in One), on the ground that their very rule of faith withdraws them from the world’s plurality of gods to the one only true God; not understanding that, although He is the one only ...
The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" are not names for different parts of God, but one name for God [110] because three persons exist in God as one entity. [111] They cannot be separate from one another. Each person is understood as having the identical essence or nature, not merely similar natures. [112]
Whereas Nicene Christians professes "one God in three divine persons" (God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost), Modalism is a form of Christian Unitarianism which stands in opposition to Trinitarianism and holds that the one God is also just one person, but simply appears in three different forms; those forms being the Father, Son ...
Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses (Juno, Minerva, and Venus), by Isaac Oliver, c. 1558. Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity. [1] [2] What is or is not divine may be loosely defined, as it is used by different belief systems. Under monotheism and polytheism this is clearly ...