Ferguson's Paradox and the Trinity

The OP brought up #3 with gears and In nature the #4 may be more likely to occur. Is there any significance to the #4?

I can't see the picture of #4, so I don't know how to say, if you can help me transfer this picture to the upload freeimage site, maybe my network can work for me.

Nothing about image. The smallest piece of any element like Aluminum or Iron is the atom and the atom has electrons, protons and neutrons and the forces which hold it together. 4 parts ....Also 4 equations describe the Electromagnetic spectrum. #4 seems to occur in nature in this way.

I'm not very good at chemistry, but I can remember that when one element reacts and changes into another element, there's always an electron that escapes from the original element and goes to the new element, I don't remember exactly, but in each case there's only one thing that escapes from the original element and becomes part of the new element.

I think this phenomenon is indicative of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ.

If anyone is good at chemistry, please correct me.

To say the three persons of the Godhead are "manifestations" or "essences" is heresy!

In fact, here is a definition:

"Sabellianism: Sabellianism is named for its founder Sabellius (fl. 2nd century). It is sometimes referred to as modalistic monarchianism. The father, son, and holy ghost are three modes, roles, or faces of a single person, God. This, of course, implies that Jesus Christ was purely divine, without humanness, and therefore could not truly have suffered or died."

https://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/heresies.html

Each of the three are persons (Latin) or in Greek as hypostaseis (pl) or singular: ὑπόστασις. That is:

"(in Trinitarian doctrine) each of the three persons of the Trinity, as contrasted with the unity of the Godhead."

"Mainstream Christian theologians nearly always reject “modalism”, meaning a one-self theory like that of Sabellius (fl. 220), an obscure figure who was thought to teach that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are sequential, non-essential modes, something like ways God interacts with his creation. Thus, in one epoch, God exists in the mode of Father, during the first century he exists as Son, and then after Christ’s resurrection and ascension, he exists as Holy Spirit (Leftow 2004, 327; McGrath 2007, 254–5; Pelikan 1971, 179). Sabellian modalism is usually rejected on the grounds that such modes are strictly sequential, or because they are not intrinsic features of God, or because they are intrinsic but not essential features of God. The first aspect of Sabellian modalism conflicts with episodes in the New Testament where the three appear simultaneously, such as the Baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3:16–7. The last two are widely held to be objectionable because it is held that a doctrine of the Trinity should tell us about how God really is, not merely about how God appears, or because a trinitarian doctrine should express (some of) God’s essence. Sabellian and other ancient modalists are sometimes called “monarchians” because they upheld the sole monarchy of the Father, or “patripassians” for their (alleged) acceptance of the view that the Father (and not only the Son) suffered in the life of the man Jesus."

According to Karl Barth:
"As God is in Himself Father from all eternity, He begets Himself as the Son from all eternity. As He is the Son from all eternity, He is begotten of Himself as the Father from all eternity. In this eternal begetting of Himself and being begotten of Himself, He posits Himself a third time as the Holy Spirit, that is, as the love which unites Him in Himself." (Barth 1956, 1)

All of Barth’s capitalized pronouns here refer to one and the same self, the self-revealing God, eternally existing in three ways. Similarly, Rahner says that God:

"…is – at once and necessarily – the unoriginate who mediates himself to himself (Father), the one who is in truth uttered for himself (Son), and the one who is received and accepted in love for himself (Spirit) – and… as a result of this, he [i.e. God] is the one who can freely communicate himself." (Rahner 1997, 101–2)

Similarly, theologian Alastair McGrath writes that:

For those who know....gear teeth are highly complicated feats of engineering....they must be identical to mesh or else they will jam up. Usually the number of teeth determines the size of the gear circumference made.

admit that they can be wrong or are wrong but they do so because they have some form of humility.

The most important thing is to acknowledge The Deity and Perfection of Jesus. That is why there is soul-cleansing Power in His Blood. We serve a Living and All-Powerful Savior Who is without beginning and without end.

The Godhead is one of the easiest things in the world to understand. An Elementary School student could figure it out. The problem is believing the answer.

To say the three persons of the Godhead are "manifestations" or "essences" is heresy!

Interesting to note the Bible says there are 7 spirits of God.

You can find them in Isaiah 11 listed

I don't know chemistry at all and these processes are probably studied in physics which I am vaguely aware of. So if someone else has a better knowledge of these matters let's hear it.

There are four laws of thermodynamics. They talk about temperature, heat, work, and entropy.

The word 'Amber' is where we get our modern word for Electron...

Ezekiel 1:4 - "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire."

"Both electric and electricity are derived from the Latin ēlectrum (also the root of the alloy of the same name), which came from the Greek word for amber, (ēlektron)."

Electron - Wikipedia

Ezekiel was being shown visions of Quantum Mechanics. More specifically, Ezekiel was being show a 'whirling' Atom in the form of a common Bohr model.

The 'Wheel in the middle of a Wheel' is what Science calls 'Electron Shells' or 'Orbitals'. Two Wheels would be Chemical Elements like Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen. These are the basic building blocks of Life...

Ezekiel 1:16 - "The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel."


The Electrons orbiting are the 'Eyes' that are 'round about'...

Ezekiel 1:18 - "As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four."

Again, the 'Rings' are the Electron Shells. The Holy Ghost Spirit was 'in the Wheels'...

Ezekiel 1:20 - "Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."

Thus, the 'Eyes' are Electrons and the Spirit of God. It is the 'Power' (literally Electromagnetism) of the Holy Ghost.

You now have one third of the Godhead Mystery solved. This pattern is found elsewhere in the Bible, for example...

Matthew 6:22 - "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."

Light is Electromagnetism. The Word of God teaches us that the Electron is called the 'Eye' in the Bible. This would make sense since it is the Eye that can see the Rainbow of the Electromagnetic Specrum.

Another example would be the 'Stone with Seven Eyes'...

Zechariah 3:9 - "For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day."

Seven Eyes = Seven Electrons

This would be Nitrogen, which is what the Nitrogenous Bases (A,C,G,T) of DNA are made of. Naturally, there will be a new 'engraving' on the Genetics of Man (Stone with Seven Eyes) one day to remove sin.

Nucleobases are like the Word of God in our DNA. The Blood of Jesus is represented by the Lamb with 'Seven Eyes', representing the Seed of Abraham.

Ultimately, Ezekiel was being shown the 'Word Made Flesh'. It was a very powerful Prophecy of the future incarnation of Jesus.

Nothing about image. The smallest piece of any element like Aluminum or Iron is the atom and the atom has electrons, protons and neutrons and the forces which hold it together. 4 parts ....Also 4 equations describe the Electromagnetic spectrum. #4 seems to occur in nature in this way.

Ultimately, Ezekiel was being shown the 'Word Made Flesh'. It was a very powerful Prophecy of the future incarnation of Jesus.

In the early years of Christianity, the Church Fathers commented extensively on numerology.

The Fathers repeatedly condemned the magical use of numbers which had descended from Babylonian sources to the Pythagoreans and Gnostics of their times. They denounced any system of philosophy which rested upon an exclusively numerical basis. Even so, they almost unanimously regarded the numbers of Holy Writ as full of mystical meaning, and they considered the interpretation of these mystical meanings as an important branch of exegesis. There was reluctance in the Christian teachers of the early centuries to push this recognition of the significance of numbers to extremes.