I came to Christ from Islam, through Buddhism. I love the Orthodox Church for it is where I see a resolution between Christianity and Buddhism. The Alpha and the Omega, the Ying and the Yang. The relationship between dualism and paradox on one hand with trinitarian relationship on the other. The difference being is that when I say Christ, I mean his Role in the cosmology of God, Man and Devil. His name could have been Wild Wind, yet I would have still followed. The two allowed me to See the Holy Mother not only as the Mother of God, or where Homeostasis occurred in Jesus, but also as the Channel through which the Divine reaches us through the veil of the physically perceptible, for God is Light, both ethereal and physical. Fractals.
Also coming from Islam. And am barely starting to grasp Christianity and the changes it's bringing to my preconceptions. I'm glad I found your comment it brought me so comfort. LORD have mercy on us 🙏
Hello! My lengthy, lifelong study into the Christian doctrine of the Trinity has been quite fascinating and I have learned quite a lot. The one thing I could never grasp, however, is where the principle of unity is within the Trinity. It seems to be impossibly elusive. It is taught that the Father is the uncaused or unoriginate cause of the Son and Holy Spirit, and yet the three persons are taught as being not only co-eternal (which is fine), but co-equal. I wonder how one gets co-equality from an arrangement in which two of the persons are caused by one of the persons. By definition, isn’t the cause greater than that which it produces? If anyone could share any insight on this, I would be grateful. 🙏
GOD does not have personhood. HE states to not make graven images or to worship idols. GOD is spirit. GOD may indwell with Jesus or the Holy Spirit but they are only a small part of GOD. GOD is a jealous GOD. HE wants more of the praise and glory. GOD did not appear to Moses in trinitarian form. HE did not create the earth in trinitarian form. When HE caused his breath to move across the waters, HE artistically created everything by HIMSELF. One cannot take Jesus back in history and add him to the GOD of creation as GOD is described in the Old Testament. Much of the problem people have understanding Jesus and the Holy Spirit is that they try to insert them in the Old Testament history. The location of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament is in the priest Melchizedek, priest of the Holy Spirit. References to Jesus in the OT are incorrect. Christianity is understandable when the wrath and fury of GOD is understood as an integral part of HIM along with HIS loving kindness. Personhood may be attributed to Jesus and the Holy Spirit but not in human terms. Personhood would never apply to the awesome and terrible GOD. Another great lecture by a wonderful theologian.
I came to Christ from Islam, through Buddhism. I love the Orthodox Church for it is where I see a resolution between Christianity and Buddhism. The Alpha and the Omega, the Ying and the Yang.
The relationship between dualism and paradox on one hand with trinitarian relationship on the other.
The difference being is that when I say Christ, I mean his Role in the cosmology of God, Man and Devil. His name could have been Wild Wind, yet I would have still followed.
The two allowed me to See the Holy Mother not only as the Mother of God, or where Homeostasis occurred in Jesus, but also as the Channel through which the Divine reaches us through the veil of the physically perceptible, for God is Light, both ethereal and physical.
Fractals.
Also coming from Islam. And am barely starting to grasp Christianity and the changes it's bringing to my preconceptions.
I'm glad I found your comment it brought me so comfort.
LORD have mercy on us 🙏
11:30 John Zizioulas - koinonia
51:50 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
33:20 Eucharist
Hello! My lengthy, lifelong study into the Christian doctrine of the Trinity has been quite fascinating and I have learned quite a lot. The one thing I could never grasp, however, is where the principle of unity is within the Trinity. It seems to be impossibly elusive. It is taught that the Father is the uncaused or unoriginate cause of the Son and Holy Spirit, and yet the three persons are taught as being not only co-eternal (which is fine), but co-equal. I wonder how one gets co-equality from an arrangement in which two of the persons are caused by one of the persons. By definition, isn’t the cause greater than that which it produces? If anyone could share any insight on this, I would be grateful. 🙏
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GOD does not have personhood. HE states to not
make graven images or to worship idols.
GOD is spirit. GOD may indwell with Jesus or the Holy Spirit but they are only a small part of GOD.
GOD is a jealous GOD. HE wants more of the praise and glory. GOD did not appear to Moses in trinitarian form. HE did not create the earth in trinitarian form.
When HE caused his breath to move across the waters, HE artistically created everything by HIMSELF.
One cannot take Jesus back in history and add him to the GOD of creation as GOD is described in the Old Testament.
Much of the problem people have understanding Jesus and the Holy Spirit is that they try to insert them in the Old Testament history.
The location of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament is in the priest Melchizedek, priest of the Holy Spirit.
References to Jesus in the OT are incorrect.
Christianity is understandable when the wrath and fury of GOD is understood as an integral part of HIM along with HIS loving kindness.
Personhood may be attributed to Jesus and the Holy Spirit but not in human terms. Personhood would never apply to the awesome and terrible GOD.
Another great lecture by a wonderful theologian.
11:30 John Zizioulas - koinonia