ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
Virgil Warren, PhD
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FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT: THREE-IN-ONE
FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT: THREE-IN-ONE
Virgil Warren, PhD
The sense in which Father, Son, and Spirit are three
and the senses in which they are one
Read Essay →FOREKNOWLEDGE AND SIN
FOREKNOWLEDGE AND SIN
Virgil Warren, PhD
God’s reasons for creating us are summarized under divine self-fulfillment (delight), goodness (grace), glory and betterment. Of these four reasons the first and last are personal while the other two are interpersonal. The first two are the reasons for people; the third is the purpose of people beyond themselves. If we speak strictly about the purpose of people, we focus attention on God’s goodness and on what grow out of it, particularly dominion and commission. Self-fulfillment highlights the unnecessitated satisfaction that moves persons to express themselves. Goodness roughly corresponds with God-to-man action; glory corresponds with man-to-God re-action. We say “roughly” because we cannot draw a sharp line between these aspects, which is exactly what we expect in the highly complex, reciprocating, transacting activity that interpersonal process involves.
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GOD KNOWN AS “HE”
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LAYOUT OF THOUGHTS ON DEUTERONOMY 6:4
LAYOUT OF THOUGHTS ON DEUTERONOMY 6:4
Virgil Warren, PhD
Read Essay →THE DIVINE TRINITY
THE DIVINE TRINITY
Virgil Warren, PhD
I. Methodology
A. Investigate the activities of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (as well as statements about them) in passages where they are mentioned together, thus observing interaction in real circumstances.
Read Essay →THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
Introduction
ANTILOGISM
Supposedly only two of these points of the antilogism may be affirmed at any one time. The solution to an antilogism comes by adding new factors, which implies that one of the factors is not an absolute bereft of circumstantial qualifications. Evil is not an absolute, and neither are the other two characteristics. As omnipotence is qualified by holiness, all three of these points are qualified by love. Love, for example, may allow free will to be used to do evil rather than stifle every attempt to misuse free will. The most important consideration in the presentation below is that a larger category surrounds the antilogism—the interpersonal one.
Read Essay →TRINITY THOUGHTS
TRINITY THOUGHTS
Letter to a friend
I took the opportunity presented by your question Sunday to assemble some thoughts that can also be part of the internet ministry effort I am working on. There is probably enough here to founder a good-sized horse, but that is the risk you take when you raise a good question that is at the same time complex and controversial. The first attachment I wrote up new as a second-level treatment of the trinity issue as I have come to see it. The other two attachments are more elaborate because they are lifted from my notes on Christian Doctrine, a course I taught at Manhattan Christian College for many years.
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