These terms are often used here, but their exact meaning is rarely clear. I suspect that not all Christians are agreed on these either. Can you explain what is meant by:
- Person
- Godhead
- Justified
- Righteous
- Fulfilled
Thanks
Chair
Godhead
Can you explain what is meant by:
- Person
- Godhead
- Justified
- Righteous
- Fulfilled
Thanks. I don't think I will ever follow how three persons make up one Godhead in a Monotheistic religion.A person is an individual entity.
The Godhead is made up of those persons who are God.
Maybe I need a definition of "sin"A justified person is regarded as innocent of sin.
How is the Law "fulfilled" then? I thought that if you fulfill the law- that means you obeyed the law. But you are saying something very different.A righteous person has been justified.
Something fulfilled is made complete.
You didn't really answer my question. In this thread I am not trying to get an angle on the internal Christian arguments about the Trinity.
How is the Law "fulfilled" then? I thought that if you fulfill the law- that means you obeyed the law. But you are saying something very different.
Maybe I need a definition of "sin" as well.
There was sin before the law was given.Sin is transgression of the law placed in the ark of the covenant.
"You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:27-28)
Now the law is not just an action but includes the spirit that motivated the action.
For NT believers the Law of Moses is history and is no longer applicable.
These terms are often used here, but their exact meaning is rarely clear. I suspect that not all Christians are agreed on these either. Can you explain what is meant by:
- Person
- Godhead
- Justified
- Righteous
- Fulfilled
Thanks
Chair
These terms are often used here, but their exact meaning is rarely clear. I suspect that not all Christians are agreed on these either. Can you explain what is meant by:
- Person
- Godhead
- Justified
- Righteous
- Fulfilled
Thanks
Chair
You mean in common speech, or in religious jargon? The definitions for several of these will be different in each.Can you explain what is meant by:
- Person
- Godhead
- Justified
- Righteous
- Fulfilled
You mean in common speech, or in religious jargon? The definitions for several of these will be different in each.
Ok, then...I am referring to how people here, on TOL, use these terms. So I guess it is religious jargon that I am interested in.
This word is overloaded and has multiple definitions. It can refer to any error in general, to the more specific case where one transgresses God's law, or to the debt incurred through wrong actions (aka guilt).Maybe I need a definition of "sin" as well.
First of all, thank you for a detailed, well thought out answer.Ok, then...
This is something like "manifestations of God", which is understandable. Though I suspect it relates to Neoplatonic thought as well.Person - when the doctrine of the trinity was formulated officially, in Latin, the word personae was used to translate the Greek hypostasis. Most literally, it means "what stands below." The idea is that while there is but One God, who belongs to a higher plane of reality, He projects Himself into our lower, material, physical world in 3 ways - as a man (Jesus), as a spirit (the Holy Spirit), and as a god (the Father). If you followed this paragraph, you now understand it better than 99% of Christians.
OKGodhead - if you have multiple gods, all of them together constitute a pantheon. If you have just one God, and you wish to refer to all his avatars and operations together, Godhead is used.
Justified - Catholics and Protestants do not agree on the definition. For Catholics, this is the process by which God refines men, making them just. Protestants believe justification is when God legally acquits a man, not imputing sin to him, in His capacity as the Judge of man. Both groups hold to both these doctrines, but use the word sanctification to refer to the other doctrine, going both ways, which can make catholic/protestant dialogue confusing, to say the least.
Righteous - an adjective referring to a man who has been justified (protestant sense), or referring to Christ, in reference to His not ever having sinned.
Fulfilled - most often is used to mean that something predicted has "come to pass" or "is completed." Those who have studied a bit, though, know that in the Bible, it can additionally mean "added to" or "re-filled" as in the case when a prophecy can be applied more than once (aka typology).
It does. People have been trying to reconcile science and theology for quite a while.This is something like "manifestations of God", which is understandable. Though I suspect it relates to Neoplatonic thought as well.
The entire Orthodox church has declared the trinity a "mystery," and ceased trying to make heads or tails of it. Christianity has split into factions, more than once, trying to define God dogmatically. I'm pretty sure a war or two has been fought over it.I definitely get the impression that most here on TOL don't understand this. Or don't understand it the way you do.
That is very much up for debate.This is one that I have trouble with. Many Christians speak of the Law being "fulfilled". But what does that mean?
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