Trinity – The Kingdom of the Heavens

About God, His Nature and Monotheism in the Earliest Christianity

Ian Johnson December 27, 2020 2 Comments

Though more detailed than previous indexes, this post is also an index to points later distorted that the New Testament–supplemented by other early writers–shows the earliest Church understood about God’s person. Further links will be added as new articles are written.

Church History, Islamic History and Secular History Interaction, Eternity, God is Love, God's Existence and Nature, God's Other Attributes, God's rationality, God's sovereignty, Immanence, Index, Meaning of Unity, Omnipresence, The Invisible God's Self-Existence, Topic Index, Transcendence, Trinity, Unity

complex unity, contradictory pairs, Eternity, God, God is Love, God's Attributes, God's Oneness, God's Unity, Immanence, Love, Omnipresence, Self-existence, Transcendence, Trinity

Leaving Our First Love to Fight Each Other as “Heretics”

Ian Johnson June 14, 2020 4 Comments

Christianity lost its true influence in the world when it pursued the power it could gain as a mass movement, stopped loving, and started fighting. One of the overlooked consequences of this was the rise of Islam.

Church purpose versus church growth, Divisions in the Church, Heresy, Islam and Christianity, Islam as a Consequence, Leaving Our First Love, Our Oneness in Christ book revision, Peril of Seeking Numbers, Peril of Seeking Power, Religious violence and persecution, Wars as consequences, What Islam borrowed from Christianity

Arabia, Arian, Christ, Christian, Christian history, Christianity, Church History, Coptic, enmity, hate, heresy, heretics, Islam, Jesus, Love, Montanist, Muhammad, Nestorian, Persian church, Quran, Quran 5:14, Trinity, Unity

Humans “Male and Female” and Marriage as Pictures of God’s Unity in Diversity

Ian Johnson June 4, 2020 6 Comments

The creation of humans as male and female, marriage and reproduction are all a part of the image of God in human beings, and are all an intelligible picture of God’s unity in diversity. They also point to our unity iwith each other and God n the Church.

Complex unity, God's Existence and Nature, God's purpose for us, Male and female, Marriage, Marriage, Marriage and Reproduction, Our Oneness in Christ book revision, Purpose of the Church, To be in his image, To live in unity, Trinity, Unity

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Unity in Diversity as an Attribute of God

Ian Johnson June 1, 2020 6 Comments

God is a complex unity–Three in One by nature–and is also one with us who believe, by adoption. He is not an absolutely simple unity, as is often taught. This false teaching comes from early efforts to make the Gospel more acceptable to the upper classes of Roman society by introducing Neoplatonist philosophy into it. But it instead destroys the Gospel by making God incapable of having any real unity with his children.

Heresy, Our Oneness in Christ book revision, Peril of Seeking Power, Peril of Seeking Respectability, Social control and statecraft, To be in his image, Trinity, Unity

Christian theology, Christianity, complex unity, complexity, Divine Simplicity, God, gospel, mindful consciousness, Neoplatonism, Nous, Platonism, Three in One, Trinity, Unity

The Trinity in Which We Share

Ian Johnson May 31, 2020 6 Comments

The three persons who eternally and inseparably comprise the One God are God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Father is God. In John 6:31, Jesus called him “God the Father.” In John 4:21-23, Jesus identified “the Father” as the God the Jews and Samaritans both worshipped. Jesus also prays to his “Father” in numerous places1–2,…
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Adoption, God's Existence and Nature, Jesus the Son, Other Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Our Oneness in Christ book revision, Reconciliation, Show us the Way of Truth, To live in unity, Trinity, Unity

complex unity, Father, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Spirit, sharing, Trinity, Unity

Our Individual Oneness with Christ

Ian Johnson May 8, 2020 3 Comments

Jesus called Himself the whole vine—which includes each of the branches—not just the root or the trunk of the vine. Thus, we are one with Him as the branch is one with the vine. We are each a part of Him, just as he is the life of each of us…. if we live in Christ and His words live in us, anything we ask will be done for us, because the Father is glorified when we bear fruit.

God was never our enemy, God's Existence and Nature, Meaning of Unity, Reconciliation, Restoration of God's Image, Social control and statecraft, To live in unity, Trinity, Unity

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About God, His Nature and Monotheism in the Earliest Christianity

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Leaving Our First Love to Fight Each Other as “Heretics”

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Humans “Male and Female” and Marriage as Pictures of God’s Unity in Diversity

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Unity in Diversity as an Attribute of God

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Our Individual Oneness with Christ

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About God, His Nature and Monotheism in the Earliest Christianity

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Leaving Our First Love to Fight Each Other as “Heretics”

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The Trinity in Which We Share

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