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Jeff Wilson · 03 Feb 2011, 06:18 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:18:33 -0600
Subject: (urth) Merger
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On 2/2/2011 11:16 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>  wrote:
>
>> I don't think this agrees with trinitarian doctrine; all three Persons are
>> uncreated, but the Father is the maker of heaven and earth. The Son and the
>> Holy Spirit inform and influence but don't seem to directly create.
>
> I'm not sure what the role of the HS is in creation, but John's Gospel
> makes clear the role of the Son (the Word): "Through him were all
> things created."

Yes; as The Word, He says the way it is going to be. However, by 
definition, all Christians affirm that the Father is the one who Makes 
when they say the Creed.

I suppose this could be a product of the ambiguity between "everything 
maker" and "all ruler". I would agree that the Logos rules all is the 
intent of the Scriptures; perhaps the Father and Son jointly inaugurate 
creation, with the Maker speaking the Logos. I can't locate my 
interlinear just now to verify, but it could explain the plural "elohim" 
in use.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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