Travis Fentiman
Puritan Board Sophomore
As Christian evangelicalism continues to try and reinvent the wheel of theology from a blank slate, profound and fundamental, old, truths are lost sight of, and contradicted.
The modern heresy of the Eternal Subordination of the Son presumes, wrongly, that each Person of the Trinity has a distinct will. Rather, according to the orthodox, early Church councils (and reformed orthodoxy), each Person shares the exact same, numeric, divine will. The love of each Person of the Trinity for the others, is a love, not of separate wills, but of existing in each other and in the self-same, pure act of love.
Whenever God acts towards the creation (ad extra) this willing is done by all three divine Persons and is undivided. Yet that one will terminates in its effects according to the distinct Persons, such that some effects may be ascribed to one Person in a certain way and not the others.
Learn more about your inexhaustibly glorious God here:
If you have any more resources on this topic, please share them, and I will consider adding them to the page.
Also, please realize that the above could be more qualified, but this is an internet post, not a dissertation, and the qualifications are given in the resources, at length.
The modern heresy of the Eternal Subordination of the Son presumes, wrongly, that each Person of the Trinity has a distinct will. Rather, according to the orthodox, early Church councils (and reformed orthodoxy), each Person shares the exact same, numeric, divine will. The love of each Person of the Trinity for the others, is a love, not of separate wills, but of existing in each other and in the self-same, pure act of love.
Whenever God acts towards the creation (ad extra) this willing is done by all three divine Persons and is undivided. Yet that one will terminates in its effects according to the distinct Persons, such that some effects may be ascribed to one Person in a certain way and not the others.
Learn more about your inexhaustibly glorious God here:
If you have any more resources on this topic, please share them, and I will consider adding them to the page.
Also, please realize that the above could be more qualified, but this is an internet post, not a dissertation, and the qualifications are given in the resources, at length.