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So For those who have been following up with my blog and the theology you'd notice that I've not Posted for a while due to so certain reasons.So we'll continue from where we ended PART 2 of the THEOLOGY.
**The Triune God: one in being, three particular Divine Persons **
In Part 2 we saw that God is one in being but then exists unceasingly as three particular Divine Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In trying to impart this fact about God, some utilization the catchphrase, one-in-three and three-in-one. Despite the fact that it's not wrong, it can be deluding if individuals comprehend it to imply that God is both three and one of precisely the same. In any case, God isn't one and three creatures; nor is he one and three Persons. The "unity" and the "threeness" of God allude to two parts of god's identity. "One" alludes to God's one being while "three" alludes to the three Divine Persons. To all the more precisely pass on this fact, I suggest this announcement: God is one in being and three in Divine Persons. Presently, we should unload that announcement and start to center around the primary point of this paper: the Divine Person known as the Holy Spirit.
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Three Divine Persons
When we say "three Divine Persons," we don't signify "people" precisely like you and me. We people are made in the picture of God, yet God isn't a picture of us. Divine Persons are not precisely the same as human people. On the off chance that God was three people precisely as are we, at that point God would be three creatures, since human people are separate creatures. When talking about God, we're not utilizing "individual" in the very same way we do about ourselves.
Review that the train of religious philosophy is to ensure we don't discuss God as though God was an animal. We need to abstain from anticipating human thoughts on God. This train of religious philosophy takes a while for individuals to get on to yet that is the reason in the congregation, we're really instructing individuals to consider God as per God's temperament, not to consider God, for instance, as a major person in the sky!
In talking about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as Divine (not human) Persons, we are asserting that these individual names and individual connections between them uncover to us the truth of God. God knows himself as Father, Son and Spirit. There are genuine and interminable connections in God. Somewhere else in Scripture these connections are likewise described as a common knowing, adoring, extolling and unity. What we think about human people in living, adoring and heavenly association with each different does, to a specific degree, mirror reality about God. God is more similar to a group of three human people than like some other made thing. Or then again, it is smarter to switch this around and say that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are the first and genuine Persons, and since we are to some degree like them, we can obtain the expression "individual" to talk about ourselves as individual human animals! Yet, God isn't more similar to a solitary, forlorn, detached person. He isn't, as the thinker Leibnitz proclaimed, a Monad!
Perichoresis and triunity
Considering the solidarity and refinement of the Divine Persons, some down through the ages have thought of the congregation as imaging the Trinity: one in Christ, yet numerous individuals. Be that as it may, the congregation does not and can't have an indistinguishable sort of solidarity from do the three Divine Persons. Their solidarity is their unity of being. Our solidarity can't coordinate that. The sort of solidarity that God has is uncovered to us in Jesus Christ. It is a solidarity so interesting that early church instructors in the end begat a word to speak to that unique perfect solidarity. That word is perichoresis. It is Greek and frequently isn't interpreted in light of the fact that it has a one of a kind implying that can't be deciphered effectively. That is to say, most actually, to envelope each other or to make space for each other. It has additionally been interpreted as commonly indwelling each other, or having a coinherence in each other, or in-existing in each other.
The dialect of perichoresis speaks to Jesus' showing that he is "in the Father and the Father is in [him]" (John 14:11). It is additionally exactly what we see lived out in the Gospels as we watch and hear Jesus in his dynamic association with the Father and the Spirit. This interesting solidarity has been additionally clarified by saying that the entire of God, every one of the three Persons, are available in every one of the Persons. Each, however completely God in being, is unmistakable in Person so that there is a genuine relationship and trade going ahead from all time everlasting between the three Divine Persons. As one genuinely early belief (The Athanasian Creed) summed it up: the solidarity of God is a Trinity and the Trinity of God is a Unity. We can attempt to put this fact into a solitary word: triunity.
All that we can say in regards to the Father we can say in regards to the Son and we can say in regards to the Spirit aside from that they are not each other. Why? Since they commonly indwell each other thus similarly are God, sharing all the awesome qualities together as one God. They have a totally one of a kind sort of solidarity with the goal that they are unmistakable in Divine Person yet joined in being. Not at all like animals, the solidarity of being doesn't fix the distinction of Person, and the qualification of Person doesn't fix the solidarity of being. Recalling this will enable us to get our dialect squared away with the goal that we don't terribly distort God.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
In reply to the inquiry, who is the Spirit? the least difficult answer is that the Spirit is the Spirit of the Father and the Son. That implies that at whatever point we talk about the Father and Son, or find out about them in the Scripture, since God is one in being, the Spirit is likewise associated with some way, regardless of whether we know it or not or expressly say as much. The Spirit dependably has a remark with the Father and Son. It's valid that we don't recollect forget this association. What's more, we presumably should make it more express more regularly. In this way, when talking about the Father or the Son we don't reject the Spirit, in light of the fact that the Spirit's the Spirit of the Father and the Son. Reference to the Son includes the Spirit and the a different way. We can't discuss the Holy Spirit separated from the Son on the grounds that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Son.
On the off chance that we expect we can consider one without the other, we're distorting who the Spirit is on the grounds that the Spirit has his being, is the Person he is, by being in a fundamental relationship to the Father and Son. We don't generally illuminate this all, yet in any case we should make sure to make every one of the associations. So surely a full comprehension will dependably look to get a handle on every one of the celestial Persons in their associations with each other.
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The who, not how of the Spirit
Looking for additionally understanding, we regularly search for answers to "how" questions. This is especially the situation when the point is the Holy Spirit. We ask "how" questions like, How does God work his provision over all of history and nature and everything else? Or on the other hand, How did Jesus end up joined to a human instinct? Or then again, How did God spare us? Or on the other hand, How does God culminate us? Or on the other hand, How does God convey his oath and will to us? Or then again How would we get the endowments and product of the Spirit or the assistance of the Spirit in petition?
A large number of the "how" inquiries regarding God really are replied by a "who" reply, which guides straightforwardly toward the Spirit. The response to "how" God accomplishes something frequently is, just, "by the Spirit." Such a "who" reply, albeit particularly naming one of the Triune Persons, regularly is viewed as lacking. The subsequent inquiries uncover why. We need to know the components, the apparatus. We need to know the chain of circumstances and end results. By one means or another we have come to trust that basically distinguishing the operator in charge of what happens does not constitute an understandable answer. So we go ahead to the "how" question. In any case, frequently in Scripture, the main answer given to a "how" question, is just the distinguishing proof of the office of the Holy Spirit. We are basically told who accomplishes something and that, as a rule, is the full degree of the clarification. Question: How? Reply: By the Holy Spirit! In all actuality, we can know the "who," without knowing the "how"!
Did Jesus reveal to Nicodemus the system of how one ends up conceived from above? Did he offer him a method? Did he list a group of principles that on the off chance that we do various stuff and the other, at that point bingo, it happens? No. He clarified that, in light of the fact that the Spirit works more like the breeze, there can be no such sort of clarification given. The working of the Spirit can't be controlled or anticipated by us. That is the idea of the Spirit– both his identity and how he functions!
Huge numbers of our inquiries, particularly those with respect to the Christian life, are addressed just by distinguishing the organization of the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, that is it. Yet, we generally appear to need progressively that includes some system, strategy or steps. We feel that there should be some mix of conditions dispatched with a specific end goal to get the Spirit to work. There is a lot of educating in Christian circles nowadays that theorizes and even concocts procedures and strategies to fill in the hole between what scriptural disclosure instructs and what we, as Nicodemus, regularly need—answers to our "how" addresses that indicate precisely what conditions we have to fill to get the Spirit to work, or work all the more viably. Notwithstanding, shouldn't we stop where Scripture stops as opposed to go ahead with insignificant hypotheses?
Truth be told, a considerable lot of the present debates or contrasts of accentuation between different lessons and services really need to do with their arranging behind a most loved method or system or a specific rundown of conditions expected to get what we're searching for from the Spirit. The contentions and discussions are frequently finished which showing offers the best "how to." But in the event that we go down that street, we've effectively overlooked a large portion of who the Spirit is. On that way we can without much of a stretch be enticed to begin soliciting assorted types from questions. Some can erroneously accept God can be isolated up. So the inquiry emerges, "Would you be able to have the Spirit without having the Son?" Or, "Would you be able to have the Son without having the Spirit?" Others accept that the nearness and gift of the Spirit comes not by elegance but rather by method or by satisfying certain conditions thus they ask "What steps do we have to take before we can successfully have and utilize the blessings of the Spirit?" But such an approach makes the finesse of the Holy Spirit subordinate upon our works, our endeavors! The outcome is that we at that point approach the Spirit by works as opposed to by confidence in God's effortlessness! We replay precisely the same that Paul composed the congregation in Galatia about.
"By the Spirit of the Father and Son" answers these "how" questions. Obviously, we can endeavor to utilize a wide range of Bible verses to work out responses to these inquiries and contentions. Be that as it may, the issue with that approach is that the nature and character of the Holy Spirit is overlooked, even lost. For instance, if the Father, Son and Holy Spirit would one say one are in being, would you be able to then have one without the other? No you can't, not in an elite way. You can't have one totally without the other. The solidarity of the Persons in real life is demonstrated in scriptural disclosure where we are informed that nobody genuinely broadcasts Jesus is Lord with the exception of by the Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:3). We are informed that when the Spirit of sonship happens upon us, we shout out "Abba Father" (Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6). God doesn't part up, with the Son taking off saying, "Farewell, Spirit. I trust you look up some other time." God is one in being yet in addition God is one in real life. They act and cooperate.
Numerous if not most current discussions have overlooked the absolute most essential things about who God the Holy Spirit is. Our considerations would then be able to head in a wide range of wrong headings and we wind up theorizing with a specific end goal to answer confused inquiries. We can simply snatch irregular Bible verses and attempt to toss them together to think of an answer. Subsequently, unique gatherings wound up inclining toward specific verses to demonstrate their focuses. In any case, in doing as such, they deserted the more crucial showing that focuses to the truth of who the Spirit is. The essential thing, the response to the "who" question in regards to the Spirit, is regularly overlooked thus the appropriate responses advanced are conflicting with the more profound, more focal truth of the Spirit who is one in being and one in working with the Father and the Son and who serves by effortlessness.
Scriptural disclosure about the service of the Spirit is regularly displayed regarding the say of no less than one other Divine Person. Sacred text reveals to us that exclusive the Holy Spirit can break into a man's pride and empower them to perceive that Jesus truly is their Lord and Savior, come in the substance as one of us (1 John 4:2). It reveals to us that we just have the Spirit since he is sent by the Son, from the Father (John 15:26). It likewise says that in the event that anybody is indicted by the message of the gospel, it is on the grounds that the Spirit is grinding away (1 Thessalonians 1:3-5). As Scripture pronounces that Jesus sends the Spirit to convey people to an affirmation of wrongdoing and the requirement for judgment and honesty (John 16:8).
At the point when the "Soul of sonship" happens upon us, we shout out "Abba Father," Paul lets us know (Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6). For what reason do we shout out "Abba Father"? In the event that we know who the Spirit is, the appropriate response is self-evident—on the grounds that God is one in being and one in real life. Isn't that astonishing? The entire Trinity is engaged with that one basic and significant cry of our souls. At the point when the Spirit demonstrations, he doesn't act separated from the Father however with the Son, as well, unites our love all.
In this way, when Jesus says "Go out and sanctify through water them in the name" (solitary) and after that gives them the one name: "Father, Son and Holy Spirit," we ought not be amazed. The name we're given matches the truth: Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the one name of God. A straightforward method to state this is God is the Father-Son-Holy-Spirit-God, as though it's one name rather than three names since it truly isn't three separate names, however a triple name. We're purified through water into the one Name of the three Divine Persons. Jesus' guideline bodes well if that is god's identity, thus how God acts and has his being as the Triune God—one in being and three in Divine Persons.
All our reasoning about the Holy Spirit should be contained inside these Trinitarian limits. That will enable us to decipher Scripture appropriately and furthermore observe all the more profoundly into Scripture with the goal that we come to know the truth of who the Spirit is perpetually significantly. Great philosophy doesn't remove us from Scripture—it causes us perceive how it meets up considerably more rationally. Great philosophy doesn't answer each inquiry we may have, however it answers the inquiries God most needs us to get a handle on and declare. In this way, we need to help other people read Scripture, translate Scripture and bring every one of the bits of Scripture together.
So till next time,hope you all were enlightened by this post.
PLEASE UPVOTE AND RESTEEM.