The Power of Three: The Dynamic Trinity
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- This is a video of a reflection I gave at St James' Leith on Trinity Sunday 2023. It was inspired by reading Cynthia Bourgeault's 'The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: The Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity' which I recommend people read if they want to dive deeper into the topic. She, in turn, was inspired by the writings of 17th century German Mystic Jacob Böhme and relates this to two fundamental cosmic laws, the Law of Three and the Law of Seven that appear as the triangle and hexad of criss-crossing lines in the symbol of the Enneagram.
Ken, thanks for putting this together. As my wife and I are slogging through Cynthia’s Holy Trinity book. This was helpful. I find the rope metaphor, particularly helpful myself. As a fourth arising that rope, then gets woven into another rope, creating higher and higher levels of complexity and order in a deChardin process.
Matthew 28:18-20
It's a mystery. Beyond your "humble" intellect or a few scribbled lines on UA-cam.
Be gone heretic.
The only way to salvation...
I’ve just listened to Cynthia’s book on audible. This, with the diagrams has really helped me grasp it much better. Thanks so much.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
You have to go through the wardrobe (ego) to get to Narnia. Jesus said drop your clothes and I don't mean physical!
Thank you kind sir , much appreciated
👍 happy i found your channel
GRACIAS kEN, AMEN!!!!!!!
The trinity is only a CONVENTIONAL doctrine, INVENTED by two CONVENTIONS of the fourth century. Jesus had NO IDEA of what a "triune God" is supposed to be and - four gospels long - stated HE IS WITH THE FATHER ONLY. This of course directly tells you that NO TRIUNE God exists.
You can see in the gospels that Jesus NEVER states to be BOTH 1. with the Father AND 2. the Holy Spirit (or 1. with the Father AND 2. the Comforter). In other words the "Holy Spirit" - who comes from the Father and dwells in Jesus - appears not to be WORTHY to be SEPARATELY MENTIONED by Jesus. This would never happen when He were a third divine Person who is DISTINCT from the Father!!! Therefore the Holy Spirit must on the contrary be a Person who is NOT DISTINCT from the Father...somehow be "a part of the SAME Father".
This is why there's no need to separately mention the Holy Spirit: Jesus simply states to be WITH THE FATHER, in all his forms. That is what actually happens. Further, the gospels even disclose who is the "Holy Spirit": He is "God (the Father) who is A SPIRIT" (Jn. 4:23,24). As stated by Jesus, the Holy Spirit (God who is a spirit) comes from the Father. This means that in Mt. 28:19 the "Holy Spirit" is the "Father who is a spirit" whereas the "Father" is the Father who is NOT a spirit, i.e. He is the "normal" God who is not here - nobody ever saw Him - and sends the "Holy Spirit" here. But the Holy Spirit is not a Person different from the Father.
If you need some more evidence that the trinity doctrine is false, there are also clear passages that are INCOMPATIBLE with it "But, of the day and the hour, no man knows, no, not the angels in heaven OR THE SON, but the FATHER ONLY knows." (Mt. 24:36). That verse clearly SPECIFIES that neither the Son nor the ALLEGED third divine person know the future. The trinity doctrine states the opposite: Son and third divine person are CO-OMNISCIENT. Well, Jesus is perfectly right whilst the trinity doctrine states falsehood. Also here you can see that NO THIRD DIVINE PERSON exists: " No man knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him.". A private matter between Father and Son, TWO divine Persons.