This is the approach of a reader to the concept of "three persons in the Trinity."
say that our Triune God consists of three people is a mistake. The Bible nowhere says that God consists of three persons. God is Trinity, the Bible says so. But it is formed by three people, but is made up of three parts or elements: the Father, the Word or Word (Jesus) and Spirit. The three parts of God form the Triune God. Where has drawn the conclusion that God is composed of three people? Father has attributes of Person. Jesus has the attributes of Person. The Spirit has attributes of Person. Then the man also consists of three persons: the disembodied human soul and human spirit has the attributes of person. See the case of rich man and Lazarus. Lazarus' soul is in Hades and speak, feel, reason ... then the soul is the second person of the trinity of man. Moreover, the disembodied human spirit and soul acts as a person ... see the case that John is going to heaven in Revelation. The Bible says that John spoke, he wept, he reasoned ... then the spirit Man is the third person of man. And that's not possible, since man is made by one person, which in essence is threefold. Similarly, in our Triune God there are Three Persons. Otherwise, a triune God consisting of three parts as we do that together or separated from each other act as if they were together.
Response to reader:
Dear friend, excuse me an answer so late.
First of all I want to thank infinitely to the fact you had the courtesy to have read the entire article published in the blogs. In fact it is an achievement on his part, because normally when articles like this take a long time, the reader short and not read on.
understand that it is impossible to compare the inner nature of God who is pure spirit ("God is spirit"), with the nature of man is a physical-spiritual creature. No correlation or correspondences in the example you set out.
Only what you do is replace the word "person" with the word "party." Why not say that these parties to which you alluded are people? When the Bible speaks on these "parts" or "persons" in an independent manner from each other, as explained in detail in my article , are assigned attributes (forgive the redundancy) personal.
I think it's more in line with biblical teaching, the recognition of three persons within the Deity to whom they confer equal fair, those attributes characteristic of personality.
Anyway, I deeply respect your opinion, just as this answer does not mean either an occasion for debate, it is not my intention to do so.
God bless you, brother. Sincerely in Christ, Luis Llanes.
Second answer:
Paul called the man in all the integrity of its structure: "SER." "... All your spirit, soul and body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1Tes.5: 23. This determines its constitutive nature.
This "being" is a unit composed of three elements: spirit, soul and body. Is in "being" as a whole, where he has personal skills. Interpreting each of these elements as separate from the other implying that in being there or live in three people is completely illogical and not what I wanted to teach. Simply that, for our study, have independent, to show that these personal abilities are inherent in "being", and especially to demonstrate to those who have a man like an animal, that man is not only matter, but contains a spiritual element called soul or / and spirit that is, in short, where lies all the elements that make being a person to man. The allusion to the man in his comprehensive net and soul are very few times, and only an idiomatic expression which takes the part to qualify the whole.
When the Bible refers to the spiritual side of man, used interchangeably with the words "soul" and "spirit." In both the qualifications and qualify with the same attributes. The alternatively used first to make a functional difference, not essential. Second, because the soul and spirit are "fused" or "alloyed", but each of these elements plays an important role in the development of personality in its manifestations as such.
The soul is the element that puts man in touch with the physical environment through the body, is the spirit that connects man to God. When the spirit of man has a good relationship with God, man lives a life in the spirit and soul of the body are subordinate to the spirit and influenced by the spirit. When the soul in direct contact with the environment is influenced by sin, (because he sees all the sensations through the body), the spirit, which is what gives life, dies, because relationships with God are cut. The word death in all cases used in the Bible means separation. This separation is what that the Bible referred to as spiritual death.
The spirit and soul are completely indivisible, is a single substance which animates them. It is the "nishama" that God breathed into his creation (Gen. 2:7), therefore, strictly speaking, is "nishama" the container of all the personal skills that are executed through the spirit soul and body. Therefore it is impossible to interpret that in humans there are three people. The human body is the receptacle that contains the "nishama" in which both are contained the soul and the human spirit.
The "nishama" is also the container of life that is transmitted to the body. There are not three lives but one life expressed through the spirit, soul and body. There are not three persons but one person who expresses their attributes through the spirit, soul and body.
To say that the body is alive, the spirit is alive and that the soul is alive does not mean that man has three lives. Similarly to say that man has a spirit with personality, the personality and soul with a body with personality, not to say that there are three people in man.
In the case of rich man and Lazarus, "the nishama" of each one of them went to the place of choice in life, while the body of the two await their resurrection. Especially in the case of Lazarus, to become a transformed body and spirit (1 Cor 15:44) so \u200b\u200bthat, again, the entire being, but worship God transformed into the realm of Heaven.
You mentioned the case of John. In this case, your spirit, with all their personal capacities, could perceive those experiences in the spiritual world just that he was not physically dead (as in the case of Lazarus) his body while his spirit was alive moved in a spiritual realm.
The Bible clearly teaches that man is a physical, spiritual and as such, as a whole, is a person, but the soul and spirit in its substantial unity is indivisible. Yet the Bible teaches and shows us that the soul and spirit, can temporarily and with a divine purpose, leaving the body to move in spiritual spheres. (2 Cor. 12:1-6)
Moreover, I reiterate that taking as an example to man to try to deny the personality of the Holy Spirit is completely out of place because the Deity is a being purely spiritual and is completely unique, or the man or anything.
If the Holy Spirit is not a person, God is not a person because God is Spirit because the Spirit is the basic and constitutive element of the Godhead. Tampo angels, as spiritual beings are not persons, and if the spirit or soul of man without personality, God, who created it, as a spiritual being is not a person.
Personality is the preserve of the spiritual beings, and demonstrate broad and in detail in the posts on the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is a person and as demonstrated in the blogs about the doctrine of man is man is a person. This is no confusion.
For more on these topics, "click" on the following links, the Network Blogs Light and Truth :
THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY
THE DOCTRINE OF MAN
THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
God give you wisdom to understand the issues that are very spiritual and I recognize they are not easy to understand. But with all respect and sincerity its objection to the recognition of three people in the heart of the deity, based on the example of the structural nature of man, it seems very weak, especially when adduces no biblical basis for the comclusión.
In Christ, Pastor
Luis Llanes. Ministry Light and Truth. Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina . Edited by EDITION.
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