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The Trinity; Why is it essential
Topic Started: Wednesday, 26. August 2009, 08:04 (1,633 Views)
O'Ratty Saturday, 12. September 2009, 08:22 Post #121

I'd like to return to this in due course - meanwhile I'm struck by the relevance of today's Epistle (Byzantine Rite!) which I'm pasting in before I forget:

1 Corinthians 2:6-9
 
BRETHREN, among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification. None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him."
Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.
- St. Gregory of Nyssa
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PJD Saturday, 12. September 2009, 12:08 Post #122

I am glad you posted that text O'Ratty; especially the following:-

"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him."

Have been considering of late how to include it in private study. A bit off tack here O'Ratty, but would you consider that 'nor the heart of man conceived' - which is obviously in excess of the imagination - might be said as 'to surpass it yet possibly include it'?

PJD
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O'Ratty Saturday, 12. September 2009, 18:41 Post #123

Have a look at this:

http://fatherstephen.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/the-religion-of-the-mind-and-the-religion-of-the-heart/
Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.
- St. Gregory of Nyssa
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PJD Saturday, 12. September 2009, 18:53 Post #124

Thank you for that link O'Ratty.

I didn't read it all - stopped almost immediately - when I found some encouragement in the following:-

"The heart is quiet rather than noisy, intuitive rather than deductive, lives entirely in the present, and is, at every moment, accepting of the reality God gives in that moment. Moreover, the heart does not seek to distance or dominate anything or anyone by labeling. Rather, it begins with an awareness of its relationship with the rest of creation (and everything and everyone in it), accepting rather than rejecting, finding similarity rather than alienation and likeness rather than difference. It knows no fear, experiences no desire, and never finds the need to defend or justify itself."

PJD
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OsullivanB Friday, 18. September 2009, 17:24 Post #125

I hope this is not too irreverent/off-topic but I can't resist repeating this from

The Economist 12th September 2009
 
A Bolivian religious fanatic briefly hijacked a Mexican airliner, ordering it to circle Mexico City. He told the crew he had three accomplices, whom he later identified to police as "the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost".
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