Seeking to make the Lord God Jesus Christ visible in our midst… "Where two or three are gathered together in My name there am I in the midst of them." (Matt. 18:20)
As in the other response, I offer some counterthoughts for the sake of discovering more light via open conversation. I am under the impression that the Son refers to God’s manifestation in visible, or perceivable form, which is to say Truth, which can be comprehended in an accommodated way, whereas what you have said here is that this visible manifestation of God is what is meant by the Holy Spirit. What I understand by the term Holy Spirit, is the activity of the Divine within and among finite beings, angels and people still in spacetime, which is the result of… Read more »
Hi Kent. I see it as both what you’ve described here and as David described it – as both examples of the trinity being seen in the one- but just in different levels of concepts. I’ve been playing around with trinity terms – they all seem to be able to be substituted for one another and can be seen within different levels of the macro- microcosm scale. They are all in their matching order in each list: love, end, first, Father, will, Esse, husband, Son of God, Jesus, heat, creation, soul, correspondence, being, celestial, the Divine Itself, above the heavens,… Read more »
That is a very helpful explanation. Thanks David.
As in the other response, I offer some counterthoughts for the sake of discovering more light via open conversation. I am under the impression that the Son refers to God’s manifestation in visible, or perceivable form, which is to say Truth, which can be comprehended in an accommodated way, whereas what you have said here is that this visible manifestation of God is what is meant by the Holy Spirit. What I understand by the term Holy Spirit, is the activity of the Divine within and among finite beings, angels and people still in spacetime, which is the result of… Read more »
Hi Kent. I see it as both what you’ve described here and as David described it – as both examples of the trinity being seen in the one- but just in different levels of concepts. I’ve been playing around with trinity terms – they all seem to be able to be substituted for one another and can be seen within different levels of the macro- microcosm scale. They are all in their matching order in each list: love, end, first, Father, will, Esse, husband, Son of God, Jesus, heat, creation, soul, correspondence, being, celestial, the Divine Itself, above the heavens,… Read more »