First born means 'the first manifestation of the divine'. It is like the primordial seed like quarks, who are the source of the material universe, from which everything comes. Only begotten(not created but manifested) also means that the primordial matter is not created by God out of nothing but...
Jesus Christ is fully divine and fully human. If we use the analogy of the Sun and its rays. The rays are different from the core of the Sun. The core is like God and the ray is Christ. Christ is one with God at one level. He is also different from another level. In order to understand this, we...
Yes, essentially one but functionally different. Masculine and feminine are one in essence but functionally there are different. Water and ice are one in essence but functionally they are different.
I would like to share what Trinity means to me.
How to explain the concept of God as Trinity to non-Christians? I do not wish to become a super God by defining what Trinity is but see it in a practical way. The Christian concept is that God is Love. Love is Unity. so God is Unity. This Unity...
To say that if one just one accepts Jesus he or she is saved is very simplistic. of course salvation is the free gift from God. For |God creating and saving are not two different actions. They are one. God saves as he or she creates. But human beings have the possibility to be in a state where...
God does not allow bad things to happen: Evil belongs to the evolutionary process of human consciousness towards its ultimate goal of realizing its oneness with God or realizing that God alone is. Evil becomes acute only when people stop this journey and build permanent houses on the way...