Clones of the Long Sun

Don Doggett · 09 Sep 2003, 01:15 · from urth-v0309.mbox · original

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From: Don Doggett <harlekin at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Clones of the Long Sun
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:15:08 -0700
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On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 06:33 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

> Don D. wrote:
>
>> Yes, but (according to orthodoxy)  the Father and the Son are the=20
>> same.
>
> Well, it's a little more complex than that. They are One, but not The=20
> Same.
> That is, they are distinct persons who share a single substance,=20
> being, and
> Godhead. I'm not prepared to explain all that right now, but that's=20
> the actual
> orthodox Catholic - and, I'm pretty sure, the orthodox Orthodox -=20
> position.
>
> --Dan'l
>

Let me rephrase and hopefully not bumble:

They are different aspects but the Son is God, not of a lesser order=20
and there are not two Gods, or three including the Holy Spirit.  It's=20
God as the Father, God as the Son, and God as Love, but always the big=20
G.  Not Zeus, Apollo, and Eros(first one to my mind) though I guess GW=20
is tying all gods to the Godhead (isn't that CS Lewis' argument?=20
Paganism paving the way?).  But that's the analogy I was shooting for=20
and the only way I can see that working in the corporeal world is=20
through Pas, Typhon and Silk having the same base identity.

Don

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