• Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    I’d also point out the nature of the trinity and the Holy Spirits existence as a result of the inherent dialectic present between the static Father and the dynamic Logos of the Son.

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      6 months ago

      But as AssortedBiscuits said, God’s perfection implies that there can’t ever be change, so what dialectical relationship can exist between the persons of the trinity? Usually both parts of a dialectic need to be able to move for there to be transformation. Also, since the three different persons still have the same nature, it seems strange to me to say they have any kind of contradiction between them, beyond the fact that each one is not the other two.

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        6 months ago

        Ah, I forgot to mention the Zionist kabbalist asserts the tetragrammaton means, “I am becoming what I am becoming,” which makes more sense. As are all of us.

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        6 months ago

        The fact that creation has change implies an inherent contradiction, which is why the Son is even distinct from the Father. Contradiction as a form doesn’t inherently mean an inconsistency of nature or of will, any more than a rock falling to the ground has an inconsistency between gravity and intertia. They’re both in contradiction in the sense of imbalance, and in accord, in that both are smoothly working according to their nature.

        As for the lack of change in one part of the dialectic, that’s the contradiction that results in the Spirit, the mediating force that allows modification of the action of the static upon the dynamic. The static cannot change, the dynamic is in action, so something new must occur.

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        6 months ago

        While its true binatarian conceptions are mostly dominant in the pre pauline church, after the fall of Jerusalem the divinity of the holy spirit becomes fairly standard, though the formal doctrine takes another century to develop.

        Iraneus already inherits proto trinitarian views from the Joannines, as does Justin Martyr from the mostly separate Paulines. It’s hard to describe how orthodox those church fathers are, since in many ways Iraneus was the first to define heresy