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Originally Posted by Pliny
What is so hard to understand about the number one?
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Again, not even Oneness believers entirely agree on the Godhead. Some are Modalist. Some are Monarchian. Some are Dynamic Monarchians. Some lean towards a Unitarian perspective. Some believe that the man Jesus Christ was a distinct human being from the Father...yet spiritually one with the Father. Others believe that Jesus was essentially the Father manifest in a temporal location as a human being.
When dealing with Trinitarianism you have to grapple with systematic ontology. God is a single living being. Existing in a manner that places Him beyond being defined as a "person". Thus within His nature several distinct levels of consciousness are possible. God being transcendent of time and space would have a transcendent consciousness. God emenating into time and space would have a temporal consciousness operating in time. God being Spirit would also exist as spirit on the spiritual plane. Thus, we have a single being subsisting in three distinct ontological realities that are capable of independing reason... and capable of interacting with one another. Their single essence, and coinherence, allow each to share in all that the others are... without loosing distinction.
It's a complicated philosophical mess. lol
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