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aron · 03-20-2019, 04:50 AM

You'll have to bear with me, but I've been communicating with other humans for all my life and have built up patterns and understandings that are hard to shake at this point. If I'm speaking with Joe, and he says, "Yesterday I was with Bill, and I gave him a coat", then that has a certain meaning. If then, they tell me, that really Joe is Bill and also the coat, then the sentence has no meaning.

The person, and the other and the object that passes between them are given distinctions.

Likewise, if I see, "I do the Father's will", then "I" and "the Father" are assumed by convention to be distinct. Or, "He sat down at the right hand of the Father", or "God raised him and gave him glory", or "This is My Son in whom I delight". In all these cases, if both parties are one and the same, the sentences have lost any conventional meaning.

How can Jesus sit on the throne as the Father, and walk about in the midst of the seven lampstands, which hold himself as the Sevenfold Spirit? It simply makes no sense.

"Well it's a mystery". Why even write words then if they have no meaning?

03-20-2019, 04:50 AM	#12
aron Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Natal Transvaal Posts: 5,632	Re: Lee's Trinity You'll have to bear with me, but I've been communicating with other humans for all my life and have built up patterns and understandings that are hard to shake at this point. If I'm speaking with Joe, and he says, "Yesterday I was with Bill, and I gave him a coat", then that has a certain meaning. If then, they tell me, that really Joe is Bill and also the coat, then the sentence has no meaning. The person, and the other and the object that passes between them are given distinctions. Likewise, if I see, "I do the Father's will", then "I" and "the Father" are assumed by convention to be distinct. Or, "He sat down at the right hand of the Father", or "God raised him and gave him glory", or "This is My Son in whom I delight". In all these cases, if both parties are one and the same, the sentences have lost any conventional meaning. How can Jesus sit on the throne as the Father, and walk about in the midst of the seven lampstands, which hold himself as the Sevenfold Spirit? It simply makes no sense. "Well it's a mystery". Why even write words then if they have no meaning? __________________ "Freedom is free. It's slavery that's so horribly expensive" - Colonel Templeton, ret., of the 12th Scottish Highlanders, the 'Black Fusiliers'