*************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, but 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.
A word is an expression of a thought of
someone, so Christ is the expression of the Father's
thought.
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 one person with two 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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