Maximal greatness here means that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are or share all great-making properties. Each person exemplifies all properties that constitute a being as fully divine. Each divine person (ex hypothesi) is omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipresent, etc. But if each divine person is God in the sense of maximal greatness (as defined by Anselm of Canterbury), then how can one distinguish the Father from the Son or the Son from the Holy Spirit?
2007-09-08 16:19:13 · 5 answers · asked by sokrates 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If the Father, Son and Spirit each have a distinct personality or can be compared to triplets, then Trinitarians have not three persons in one God, but three gods or three distinct centres of awareness.
2007-09-08 16:44:30 · update #1
Read the bible ,their are not the same.
GOD BLESS
2007-09-08 16:27:45 · answer #1 · answered by TCC Revolution 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're looking at them individually. They are one. God the Father, Jesus is the Word of God and the Holy Spirit is the power of God. They all serve a function as God.
1 John 5:
7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
2007-09-08 16:44:51 · answer #2 · answered by JohnFromNC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. It is not necessary to tell them apart .You are trying to describe them in human terms which does not work.Our finite minds cannot comprehend the Trinity.It is beyond our understanding.There are certain things that just can't be explained.People have to learn that not everything has an answer or can be explained logically particularly about God.
For example... When Catholics celebrate the Eucharist how does the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ ?
2007-09-08 17:14:34 · answer #3 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*Is Catholic*
If you had identical triplets, how could you tell them apart?
Their personalities are different and they relate to each other differently.
This is how you know who is the Father, who is the Son, and who is the Holy Spirit, they have different personalities and they relate to each other differently. Really basically the Father is father, the Son is son and the Spirit is spirit. These names are not arbitrary but they tell us much about the individual persons of the Trinity.
2007-09-08 16:35:35 · answer #4 · answered by Liet Kynes 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are able to tell them apart because God has shown us each of them in his Word.
2007-09-08 16:37:02 · answer #5 · answered by ozchristianguy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋