THE IDEA OF THE UNCREATED
The child by his questions, "Where did God come from?" is unwittingly acknowledging his creaturehood.
View MoreThe child by his questions, "Where did God come from?" is unwittingly acknowledging his creaturehood.
View MoreLord of all being! Thou alone canst affirm I AM THAT I AM; yet we who are made in Thine image may each one repeat "I am," so confessing that we derive from Thee and that our words are but an echo of Thine own. We acknowledge Thee to be the great Original of which we through Thy goodness are grateful if imperfect copies. We worship Thee, O Father Everlasting. Amen.
View MoreA popular belief among Christians divides the work of God between the three Persons, giving a specific part to each, as, for instance, creation to the Father, redemption to the Son, and regeneration to the Holy Spirit.
View MoreThe Persons of the Godhead, being one, have one will. They work always together, and never one smallest act is done by one without the instant acquiescence of the other two. Every act of god is accomplished by the Trinity in Unity.
View MoreThe Nicene Creed also pays tribute to the Holy Spirit as being Himself God and equal to the Father and the Son:
View MoreChrist did not hesitate to use the plural form when speaking of Himself along with the Father and the Spirit. "We will come unto him and make our abode with him."
View MoreWhat God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof.
View MoreThe Church has not hesitated to teach the doctrine of the Trinity.
View MoreThomas Carlyle, following Plato, pictures a man, a deep pagan thinker, who had grown to maturity in some hidden cave and is brought out suddenly to see the sun rise. "What would his wonder be," exclaims Carlyle, "his rapt astonishment at the sight we daily witness with indifference! With the free, open sense of a child, yet with the ripe faculty of a man, his whole heart would be kindled by that sight. . . . This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas; that great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds sweeping through it; the black cloud fashioning itself together, now pouring out fire, now hail and rain; what is it? Ay, what? At bottom we do not yet know; we can never know at all."
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