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bettercountry · 03-16-2023, 07:48 AM

Below is a snippet from the site (https://agodman.com/the-triune-god-w...irit-john-739/) that looks to be a good summary of what the LC believes:

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8), and with Him there is no change (Mal. 3:6; Num. 23:19). However, in the Gospel of John 1:14, we see that the Word – who was with God and who was God – became flesh. In His essence, God cannot change and will not change – He is perfect, complete, and without any need to change. Economically though, when it comes to His economy and the accomplishment of His plan, God became a man through incarnation (John 1:14) and then He as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit, the Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b; John 7:39). The Triune God passed through a process to become the consummated Spirit, which the Apostle John calls, “the Spirit” (John 7:38-39) who was not yet before the Lord’s resurrection. The Spirit is the crystallization of the Triune God, the consummation of all that God has passed through in Jesus Christ."

"The Spirit is not merely the third of the Divine Trinity – the Spirit is the entire Triune God who passed through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection to become the Spirit! The fact that God went through a process economically doesn’t mean that God somehow is incomplete or imperfect. God is eternally complete and perfect in His essence. But the Bible shows us clearly that, economically speaking, our God took some steps and passed through a long process when He became a man, and the consummation of this process is that He became the Spirit."

Is this sound doctrine? Why or why not?

03-16-2023, 07:48 AM	#22
bettercountry Member Join Date: Nov 2022 Posts: 26	Re: "Processed Triune God" Below is a snippet from the site (https://agodman.com/the-triune-god-w...irit-john-739/) that looks to be a good summary of what the LC believes: "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8), and with Him there is no change (Mal. 3:6; Num. 23:19). However, in the Gospel of John 1:14, we see that the Word – who was with God and who was God – became flesh. In His essence, God cannot change and will not change – He is perfect, complete, and without any need to change. Economically though, when it comes to His economy and the accomplishment of His plan, God became a man through incarnation (John 1:14) and then He as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit, the Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b; John 7:39). The Triune God passed through a process to become the consummated Spirit, which the Apostle John calls, “the Spirit” (John 7:38-39) who was not yet before the Lord’s resurrection. The Spirit is the crystallization of the Triune God, the consummation of all that God has passed through in Jesus Christ." "The Spirit is not merely the third of the Divine Trinity – the Spirit is the entire Triune God who passed through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection to become the Spirit! The fact that God went through a process economically doesn’t mean that God somehow is incomplete or imperfect. God is eternally complete and perfect in His essence. But the Bible shows us clearly that, economically speaking, our God took some steps and passed through a long process when He became a man, and the consummation of this process is that He became the Spirit." Is this sound doctrine? Why or why not?