*************INVOKE THE HOLY SPIRIT*************
END DAY # 2
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THEOLOGY:
Theos, means GOD. Logos, means "to know". Atheos or atheist means,
against GOD.
PHILOSOPHY:
Is to reason with intellect. To decide with intellect.
THE HOLY TRINITY:
*CCC 232-267, *TB 27-29,43-46, *TS 88-89,96-98,112.
1. There are 3 persons in one nature of GOD, 3 to testify to His name.
2. Each is a person, distinct, not separate. When one thinks, all think.
When one decides, all decide. *TB 29
3. They are not three GODS but one. More than one would be limited
by the other, and you cannot have multiple infinities. *CCC 253, *TB 33.
PERSON:
(review from day # 1) *TB 27-28, *TS 91-95,110-114.
1. The center of attribution in a rational nature. Person has a body, soul,
and spirit.
Person poses the question, Who? *TS 240-241
The RATIONAL person can:
1. Reason, walk, talk, laugh, smile, sleep and think. *CCC 1704
NATURE:
(review from day # 1) *TB 28,90, *TS 91-95
1. That which makes a thing to be what it is, and the
source of what it can do.
Nature poses the question, What? *TS
240-241
2. Human nature is everything from the top of the head
to the soles of the feet, everything inside and outside.
3. GOD the FATHER, the SON, and THE HOLY SPIRIT all possess
the nature of GOD.
SPIRIT of a person:
*TB 10,60-61, *TS 141-142,
1. Has intellect.
A. Knows, reasons, thinks, and has
ideas.
2. Has free will. Will decides, using "Will"
power and "Won't" power. With liberty
comes responsibility, free choices
and free will.
FINITE VERSES INFINITE:
*TB 20
1. Finis means end, it is finite. It has a limit. Man
needs time to generate a son.
Infinite has no end. There is no little eternity. Eternity is whole. It
is not broken up. It is one indivisible thing. GOD simply, IS.*TS 101
2. Our minds are too little, puny, limited, tiny, and
finite to grasp the meaning of
eternity, or to know all things. We
cannot know all about something, but we can
know a lot about it. No one has all
knowledge. Everyone has a little bit of knowledge.
FATHER/SON:
*TB 45, *TS 99-106
1. Son is origin of a living thing from a living thing
by communication of substance
to the likeness of nature. That is,
Life comes from life. Everything comes from within parents.
* (opt) Life in this world had to come from
outside this world. Life did not start in
this world. He who was life, gave life.
2. The son gets his nature from his father and must be
in the same nature as the
father. The son of a mouse is
a mouse. The son of a man is man.
The SON of GOD is GOD. *TS 99-100
3. The SON is all powerful and all knowing. The SON is
GOD in every way.
4. In human life, the father is older than the son in
time. In Divine life, the FATHER
is NOT older than the SON. They are
outside of time and space. *TS 108,
( Define time and space, use definition
sheet ).
5. JOHN 8:58, "BEFORE ABRAHAM CAME TO BE, I AM."
*TS 56-57.
It means GOD has no past and no future.
HE is NOW, eternally present.
YAHWEH is, "I AM WHO AM",
as is shown in EXODUS 3:13-15.
6. We are the image of GOD (GEN 1:26-27), but HE is not
like us because of HIS Divine nature.
7. THE WORD (JOHN 1:1) is not a spoken word. *CCC 104,*TS
102. GOD's WORD is a mental word.
The FATHER has a thought, an idea,
which is appropriate to GOD.
GOD, knowing Himself with infinite
knowledge, and thinking of Himself with
infinite power (TS 110), generates
an idea, a thought of Himself. There is
nothing in the thinker that is not
the thought of himself,*TS 104. The idea is in the nature of the thinker,
so the idea in the nature of GOD is
everything that GOD is.
The idea is all knowing, all perfect,
all powerful. *TS 74, *TS 102-110
8. GODS' SON, THE WORD, generated with intellect by GOD,
comes to us through
the intellect of GOD. *CCC 320
HOLY SPIRIT:
*TB 45-46, *TS 105-108
1. SPIRIT in Greek is PNEUMA, Latin is SPIRATE, English
is BREATH. *TS 106
2. The HOLY SPIRIT proceeds from the FATHER and SON through
the will.
The FATHER
>--------Loves--------> the SON
The SON >--------Loves-------->the
FATHER
This is the state of lovingness, the
sigh that lovers breathe. *TS 107
3. The HOLY SPIRIT comes from the love of the FATHER
for the SON, and of the SON for the FATHER..
There is nothing in the FATHER
and the SON that is not in the love of themselves. *TS 105
4. "Then the Lord GOD formed man out of the dust
of the ground and BREATHED into his nostrils the BREATH OF LIFE, and man
became a LIVING BEING." GEN 2:7
JESUS took on the nature of man. HE is 1 person with 2
natures. *TB 28,*TS 239
First
person: 2nd
Person: 3RD
Person:
Person, (Who?) : FATHER-GOD SON-GOD
HOLY
SPIRIT-GOD
Nature, (What?): Divine Divine,
Human Divine
QUESTION: JESUS
1. Was JESUS a Divine person?......................( )
2. Was JESUS a human person?......................( )
3. Did JESUS have a Divine nature?...............( )
4. Did JESUS have a human nature?...............( )
5. Did JESUS have a human soul?...................( )
QUESTION: JESUS, THE CHRIST
1. Did HE have a Divine intellect?...................( )
2. Did HE have a human intellect?...................( )
3. Did HE have a Divine will?...........................( )
4. Did HE have a human will?...........................( )
MARY:
1. MARY is the mother of GOD. JOHN 1:1,14
2. SHE gives birth to a person with a nature.
a. Was SHE the mother of a Divine person?...............................( )
b. Was SHE the mother of a human person?...............................( )
c. Was SHE the mother of a person with a Divine nature?.........( )
d. Was SHE the mother of a person with a human nature?.........( )
3. How can Mary, a creature created by GOD, be the Mother of GOD? (2a,
2c)
On the Cross, JESUS was dying in His human nature, and
living in His Divine nature. He was both living and dead at the same time.
Persons, (WHO?), not natures, (WHAT?), die. (?) The (Divine) PERSON of
JESUS died. Therefore, GOD died.
(read) ACTS 3:15, *CCC 629-630, TB 89-93, PHIL2:5-11.
Read for a good explanation of who died: *TS 240-241,268-269.
BIBLE READINGS for DAY # 2:
ROMANS 12:, 1COR 12:
STUDY AID: None
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