Trinity

God transcends our ability to understand Him the creation and in His nature. Another example is His omnipresence. Considering that the size of our visible universe is (Halpern, 2010) 93 billion ly (light years) in diameter, by faith we have to know that He is present in the whole universe Ps. 139:7. Not only is God present throughout the universe, but his nature is also homogenous in that his veracity is total. God is complete truth in all aspects, no falsehood as whatever God has revealed…

as the sovereign Creator of the universe to whom all glory, honor, and praise belong” (Diffey, n.d., para. 9). To Christians, there is but only one God, however, he exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, known as the Holy Trinity. The Holy Trinity is to the Christian Worldview because it provides an understanding of how all three persons played a part in the creation, spread, and sustainment of Christianity. There is the Father, who created all things and gave…

metaphor. Many theologians at the time set to answer this question, though it was difficult to form a consensus. After much argumentation, an Alexandrian bishop by the name of Athanasius laid down much foundational theology for the ideas of the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation. This essay will lay out what views Athanasius was arguing against and why his views were more theologically sound. In the first century…

house, this house is invisible to the builder but the map of a house sheds light on what is to be expected. The theory of Dionysius is extraordinary because John incorporates and explains how God made images to faintly remember him like the Trinity, where the Trinity is depicted as the sun, rays of light, or a river and the Mother of God is represented as the staff or earthen jar. John argues to the Catholic church that these images were created by God so that in the future people could…

something that can be bypassed or discarded. Jesus words in Matthew 27:46 “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (ESV) have the ability to completely alter your perspective of Christian theology regarding the Trinity if you do not have a clear understanding. As our reading assignment points out “The cross is either the Christian end of all theology or it is the beginning of a specifically Christian theology” (McGrath, 2011, pg. 191). Because this can…

“Our Lord Jesus Christ founded one Church, in unity, undivided. So it stands there can only be one true Church, "which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 Tim 3:15). The announcement of the Kingdom of God by Our Lord was the beginning of the Christian Church, a new Heaven and a new Earth.” In the following paper I will explain factors that contributed to the split between the Eastern and Western church known as the Great Schism. I will also explain how as a…

A growing trend in today’s society is the split from classical religious beliefs to what Dr. Christian Smith calls “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.” Dr. Smith, inquiring about this societal shift, wrote his article “On ‘Moralistic Therapeutic Deism’ a U.S. Teenagers’ Actual, Tacit, De Facto Religious Faith” by following hundreds of students to find basis of the religious beliefs amongst the youth of America. Many of these students claimed to be Catholic, but the evidence presented by Dr. Smith…

Well, believe it or not, but Hinduism follows their own trinity, which is made up of, the three gods, Shiva, Krishna, and Brahma. They are more alike when you think of the father is compared towards Brahma, the creator, and the Krishna compared to the son, preserver of creation and lastly Shiva compared to the…

In chapter one of Coleman O’Neil, OP’s book Meeting Christ in the Sacraments, O’Neil presents three important ideas which are: “Exodus,” “The Priesthood of Christ,” and “Members of the Priest.” (O’Neil pg. vii) O’Neil’s three points are so important that they are also echoed in the Magisterial document Sacrosanctum Concilium (hence forth referred to as S.C.). This paper will briefly examine why each of O’Neil’s ideas is significant, and this essay will also provide several quotes from the…

The first great heresy for the Christian religion is considered to be the Arian heresy-- with the name deriving from its most influential preacher, a parish priest named Arius from Antioch. The Arian heresy arose, in the year 318, from the fact that it was difficult to explain the difference between “the One and the Many, between the ultimate unity that lay behind the visible universe and the incapable variety that exists in the world as we know it”. Arius resolved this problem by preaching…