[Work in progress and to be continued]
The Most Holy Trinity and His relevance to Creation,
Salvation, and Christian Life
I.
What is the Holy Trinity?
The Most Holy Trinity is the
Christian Doctrine that the One God is the inseparable union of three persons
under one essence or being.
II.
God, Love, and the Dynamics of Love
God
is the first, prime and supreme Existent.
Since beginning less existence, the
Almighty lives in the ultimate life of infinite love, of which love is the very
essence of the Divine. Divinity is the essence of love and Deity, the source of
love. John wasn’t being symbolic when he said “God is Love”. Love is holiness, justice, and perfection. It
(or may I say He) is the inexpressible, eternal and transcendent Entity of inestimable
positivity negative from the “void.
But the Grand Source/Deity of
Love, who is simply coined by Christ as “The
Father”, is the immense will of God. The will of God is the vast sentiment
of His Love for Himself, the personification of unadulterated Arduous Intention. Just the same principle
as St. Augustine’s “God thinking of Himself” dogma.
But all that Love kept within the
Mind/Will of God must manifest somewhere, for as what Peter testified to the
Lord, “You are the Son of the Living God” The Living God
expresses His endless love unto the consubstantial, co-eternal personhood of
His grandest, only-begotten “Son”
---- The Logos, or Word, or Living expression of the Father; Whom He loves so
much as a Son. Just like humans, the
love of two, opposite sexes are manifested entirely and prominently with an
offspring. Ironically, we are modelled after God and His Image not vice versa. But we’ll talk about it later. John wrote numerous
times in His Gospel, “Through Him all things were
made”, “I am in the Father and the Father’s in me”, and “Whoever
wants to go to the Father must go through Me” testifies
that the Son is the mediator of the Father’s will/works of Love and the
mediator between us and the Father. Christ is the Expression of the Father
in Creation, Salvation, and Sanctification. In a way, we can imperfectly
represent the Father as the flame or source, and the Son is the light or the
energy of the flame that travels and illuminates the distance beyond the flame.
Same
as St. Augustine’s explanation as the knowledge of God or “God answering”
Father and Son loves each other. So
much so that the Love resonating eternally and infinitely proceeding from the
Two is also a person with Will, Reason, and Animation. The Experience of
love that unites the Father and Son is a spirit of magnanimous compassion----- the
“Holy Spirit”. Same as St. Augustine’s
statement as “God loving Himself” The
Spirit is the warmth from the light and flame, in imperfect symbolism. The Love
that emanates from the Supreme Providence
is the same Love that ushers the eternal begetting of the Son and eternal
will of the Father, thus completing the timeless cycle of Trinitarian Dynamics.
III.
Love in the Divine Plan and the three Holy acts
of God
“In the beginning, God created
heaven and earth. The world was without form and void, and the Spirit of God
fluttered over the abyss”-in Genesis. These words inspired by the Providence, say the abyss or the void of
nothingness was filled with nothingness or absence of love and anything good. But
God is superior of emptiness. The chaos of formlessness means that the
emptiness from God, from love, provides unto the abyss or hell before the light
or expression of the Deity. The former is the world before God’s work, the next
will be His mission. “He said, Let there be light.” As the
Deity poured out His Love-manifested, the Logos unto the void, the abode of
light and pure love (Heaven) was made through Love manifested (remember that
Love –manifested is the Son) and the twilight of Light and darkness (the
Physical World) upon the separation of Light or Good and Darkness or evil
quoting “He separated the light from the darkness”. All in the timeless
hyperspace----a declaration of God’s mission: To let Love conquer the darkness,
to the world and to existents lost in it. The method of Creation is an outburst
of love, from which all things come and live. The Father, however, was not
alone in this. He willed the Creative Light, beget and expressed His will at
the power and love of the Son, and the Holy Spirit sustains the
Universe-from-love in the warmth of His sustaining force of love. You can
notice that love is exhaustingly repeated. Well, that is God’s whole Idea.
Salvation is another story, yet so
the same as Creation. As Creation is the redemption of darkness through
illumination from above, salvation is the bridging of Man to God above, across
the endless chasm of sin by illuminating from the earth. The Son, I mean God in
His Trinity, loved us so much, that He is willing to be constrained in a
physical body; live amongst the chaos of our twilight world; got convicted,
persecuted, scourged, violated, hated, humiliated, and executed at the worst
and most embarrassing way possible (Cruxifiction)
and die for us so that the Innocence Himself may shine the most pathetic
expression of love and fill the chasm of sin with light of His sacrifice. Primordially,
Christ told of His sacrifice in a manner that we may feel the extreme love of
God for us--- an atonement or payment. Cosmologically and positively, He filled
off the crater of sin with the endless merits of God’s light/grace. Still, the
Trinity worked for salvation. The Father accepted the endless merits of the
sacrifice, while Christ is the expressive and perfect sacrifice of love, and
the Spirit is the Love that filled and bridge the chasm of sin forever between
God and Man and made it freely in our access in the Church by the graces He
provides.
The last act is strongly intertwined
with Creation and Salvation. Sanctification---the continuation and distribution
and evangelization of Christ’s message of Love. The Father provides the will of
saving men, manifested in the mystical Body of Christ/the Church to do the
works of Jesus dispensing the invisible grace of God in physical manifestation
through the sacraments and the spiritual and corporal works of mercy ß-the proof or acts of love
that inspires the spirit to be united with the joy and glory of God’s love,
while the Spirit is the inspiration that moves men to be saved or to save in
Jesus’ Name.
These
are just summaries and vague explanations of my imperfect interpretation of God’s
will. God inspire me more to properly allot these revelations in a way men
understand
IV.
Why God loves us? Why did He created, saved,
and sanctified us?
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