Radiance3 wrote:
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I'd like to focus my attention on number 10. I believe in the "Holy Trinity." The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I pray the Nicene Greed every Sunday, and the Apostles' Creed daily. But I ponder a lot of times, about these lines in the Nicene Creed; John 1:1-2; John 14:1-2; and John 14:8.
My thought is this. That God the Father, Jesus , and the Holy Spirit is One.
The Nicene Creed, 2nd paragraph.
"I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;"
Another relevant reason why Jesus is also God the Father.
John 1:1-2
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.
Then in John 14:1-2
[1] "Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me.
[2] In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you.
On John 14-8, Philip said Lord, show us the father, and it will be enough for us.
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’. 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
So, my though is Jesus and the Father are one, but confuses me. All I do is trust and the Nicene Creed summarizes them all.
Perhaps you have your ways interpreting those verses. What do you think?
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God the Father. Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Ghost) make up a Trinity. God has total power, Jesus was created by God to serve a specific purpose and has power sufficient to that purpose given to Him by God. Whether that is the total power of God is not clear to me, perhaps it is, and perhaps it isn't. Jesus may well be all powerful now, while before His death He may not have been. But there is still the Trinity, and Jesus is our savior, and He sits on the right hand of God.