The Trinity Concept

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Well, I hope you're doing great.
Thank you again.

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Another episode of the Rancho
Radio podcast and I want to talk

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about the Trinity.
It's I don't think I've ever

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talked about the Trinity.
It's from what I've been reading

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on Paper 104 and there's a lot
of good Nuggets in that, even

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though it's a very challenging
section of the book.

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If you notice in Part 3, as it
goes through the entirety of

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Part 3 of the Urantia book, it
gets a little bit more

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complicated and more complex up
to the point where they're

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talking about a lot of things
that it, it literally takes

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years to try to grasp and the
use of language is unbelievable.

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But they get to the part about
the Trinity.

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And what I've always found
interesting is that most

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religions in my own experience
about the Trinity is that people

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don't know or that they, they
say God the Father, God the Son

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and God the Spirit.
And in Catholicism, that's it's

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very prevalent in Catholicism,
but not so much in other

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branches of Christianity.
Like you won't hear a lot about

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the Trinity, I don't think in a
Baptist Church or in in in in a

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lot of Middle Eastern religions
Trinity is expressed through

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triune concepts, particularly in
Hinduism.

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So I've not really paid too much
attention to the Trinity

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concept, although I I think I
understand it more because I

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read the Urantia book and I
understand the relationship

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between God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Spirit.

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This particular paper is very
interesting and I want to pull

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out some really good notes about
it.

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And I think you'll have a better
appreciation of it too.

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Once we go through it.
It won't be a very long episode,

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but it's got a lot of good
interesting insight as to the

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nature of God.
So we'll continue in just a

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second here.
And I, I want to welcome you

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into the Your Rancher Radio
podcast.

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So the first question that
people will naturally ask is why

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is the Trinity concept
important?

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And in paper one O 4 of the
Urantia book, they explain why.

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And let me roll through some of
the more important comments and

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paragraphs, and then we'll weave
together the the context in

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which we could discover the
answer why the Trinity concept

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is such an important concept in
Christianity and indeed in

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understanding the relationship
of God.

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So it starts out with, it's
always difficult for an emerging

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monotheism to tolerate
Trinitarianism when confronted

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by polytheism.
The Trinity idea takes best hold

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of these religions, which have a
firm monotheistic tradition

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coupled with doctrinal
elasticity.

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The great monotheists, the
Hebrews and the Muhammadans

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found it difficult to
distinguish between worshipping

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3 gods, polytheism and
Trinitarianism, the worship of 1

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deity existing in a triune
manifestation of divinity and

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personality.
Now Jesus taught his apostles

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the truth regarding the persons
of the Paradise Trinity, but

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they thought he spoke
figuratively and symbolically.

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Having been nurtured in Hebraic
monotheism, they they found it

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difficult to entertain any
belief that seemed to conflict

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with the dominating concept of
Yahweh.

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And the early Christians
inherited the Hebraic prejudice

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against the Trinity concept.
And this goes back to what I was

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saying a moment ago about how in
some factors or some traditions

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of Christianity, there's a
stronger presence than others of

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the Trinity concept.
Paul knew of the Paradise

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Trinity of Father, Son, and
Spirit, but he seldom preached

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about it and made mention
thereof in only a few of his

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letters to the newly forming
churches.

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Even then did his fellow
apostles.

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Paul confused Jesus, the
Creator, Son of the local

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universe, with the second person
of deity and the eternal son of

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paradise.
Now over the years of my

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discussions with fellow
Christians about the Urantia

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book, they get a little upset
when I say to them, no, Jesus is

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not the second person of of
Trinity.

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So I know by experience that
there is some a little bit of

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consternation on Christians when
they read about the second

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person of deity and the
difference between that and say,

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the Creator's Son, which is of
course Michael, who is Jesus.

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Now, not since the times of
Jesus has the factual identity

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of the Paradise Trinity been
known on Urantia, except by a

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few individuals to whom it was
especially revealed until its

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presentation in these revelatory
disclosures.

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Now that that sentence right
there should jump out at you,

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because what the revelators are
telling us is that one of the

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key revelations that is coming
out of this particular book, the

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Urantia book, is a clear and
precise of of explanation of

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what the Paradise Trinity is and
why it is an important

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evolutionary step in religious
thought.

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They go on to say that the
conceptual grasp of the Trinity

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association of the Father, the
Son and Spirit prepares the

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human mind for the further
presentation of certain other

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threefold relationships.
So think of it this way, the the

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idea of a loving Father is not
exactly correlated with the idea

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of a deity force.
At least without the concept of

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understand of understanding how
God operates in this realm.

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How can he be a loving personal
father who has his hands in all

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of our human affairs, but by the
same time have a universe that

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operates under physical laws and
in some degree of order?

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And this is a stumbling block
for a lot of people when they

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try to understand the concept of
a spiritual father who was also

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the upholder of all things
physical gravity and everything

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else, energy, force.
And the two ideas do not

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commensurate so well, unless you
have the Trinity concept.

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And that's why they're
introducing it in in more

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clarity in these Urantia papers.
But and I'd never seen that

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sentence before the sentence
saying until the Trinity

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concept.
This is the next attempt to

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explain Trinity to human beings
in these tarantula papers.

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So let's continue on.
Theological reason may be fully

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satisfied by the concept of the
Paradise Trinity or even a

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personal all loving deity.
But philosophical and

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cosmological reason demand the
recognition of the infinite

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functions in various non father
capacities of universal

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manifestation, including the
relationships of the God of

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force, energy, power, causation,
reaction, potentiality,

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actuality, gravity, tension,
pattern, principle and unity.

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What is the unifying force of
all of these anticipants of the

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material world or the material
universe?

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And again I go back to you.
It's hard for many people to

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understand that a personal God
can at one and the same time

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also be a God of force and
energy.

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And this is perhaps why Trinity
introduces and bridges these.

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It harmonizes these two concepts
through the function of the

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Trinity that make any sense.
They go on to write.

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Mortal man is passing through a
great age of expanding horizons

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and enlarging concepts on
Urantia, and his cosmic

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philosophy must accelerate in
evolution to keep pace with the

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expansion of the intellectual
arena of human thought as as the

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cosmic consciousness.
He perceives the

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interrelatedness of all that he
finds in his material science

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and is and in his intellectual
philosophy and is his spiritual

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insight.
So could it be that the Trinity

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concept actually helps bring
these three arenas of reality

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into cohesion?
I'm asking you the Trinity, as

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it exposes the relationship
between God the Father, God the

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Son, and God the Spirit, then
allows us to make that

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connection between the material,
the morantial, and the

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spiritual.
They go on to say, still, with

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all this belief in the unity of
the cosmos, man perceives the

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diversity of all existence.
In spite of all concepts

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concerning the immutability of
deity, man perceives that he

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lives in a universe of constant
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The Trinity provides the context
by which Deity can be seen

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manifest as both personal as
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That is my interpretation, so
I'll say it again.

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The Trinity provides the context
by which Deity can be viewed or

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manifested as both personal as
well as in functional unity.

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God is both omnificent and
distributive through the

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understanding of the Trinity
relationship of God the Father,

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God the Son, and God the Spirit.
So God is both love and law,

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merciful and just, impersonal in
energy and force, but also

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qualitative and deeply loving as
a personal being, even the

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source of all that is energy and
especially all that is

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personality.
You know, one of the things that

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I like, one of the attributes
that I like and appreciate about

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the Oranga book, it how how it
does harmonize the three great

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realities of our experience, our
material world, our intellectual

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space and our spiritual
aspirations, things meaning,

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value.
And I hope that some of what I

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shared with you from Paper 104
helps you to have a better idea

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of the concept of the Trinity
and how it relates to not only a

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God of energy and a God of
force, but also a God of love

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and mercy.
And these are the things that

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Jesus spoke about.
So we'll see you again soon on

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the Urantia Radio podcast.
And of course, any questions or

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comments, always feel free to
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The e-mail address is
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it's been a pleasure to be with
you and I look forward to our

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next get together.