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Life In The Digital Age: I have a son who is a senior software engineer for a major Silicon Valley company. He is currently visiting us, and working from our home. He just packs up a few computers, sets up shop, and stays until he wants to go back. Today, he interviewed a university student in another part of the United States for a Summer Intern position next year. The student was probably more than 2,000 miles away from here. In addition, our son is training another software engineer, who was viewing the Internet interview that my son had with the student. He was probably located in Silicon Valley. Could you have imagined that such could take place a few years ago?

(N) Psalm 119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

It's actually another argument for the Trinity. Jesus clearly said He was God, Jesus also clearly said the Father was God. Jesus said He had the power to take up His life after laying it down. The Father Rose Jesus from the dead NOT BECAUSE JESUS LACKED THE POWER but because He was the Eternal Son who always ( as in eternally ) did the will of the Father. This is not a difficult concept to grasp.

Christ did not incarnate Himself either. NIV Hebrews 1:6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him." God the Father brought His firstborn into the world. Which means, the Son of God was only able to incarnate by the divine action of His Father. He did not do it by Himself. He consented to it, but He did not bring it to pass.

Jesus spoke much of this as a human being. When the Son of God incarnated, He "emptied Himself" of divine power. As a human he became mortal, and flesh. The Father had to raise Him from the dead, or He would have remained dead. As a human being, the divine power He accessed was that of His divine Father. He said Himself, "The Father who dwells in me does the works." Jesus healed no one by His own divine power. The Father's life poured through Him. It is the same today. The Father's life and spirit are poured through His Son, to us.

I fully agree with EGW's take on this. We as limited, fallible humans, cannot fully understand the nature or essence of God until we are like He is. When we face things we cannot hope to fully understand, we create mental constructs (admittedly based on our partial understanding) in an attempt to wrap our heads around facts we cannot fully understand. I have heard the trinity is like an egg - it has a white and a yolk. They are two separate elements; but both are necessary to make an egg. I have also heard the trinity described like a fruit pie. It needs both a crust and a filling to be a pie. They are two separate elements; but both are required for a fruit pie. Furthermore, you can slice the pie into several pieces. Yet it remains a whole pie. Eight pieces in one pie is equivalent to three Persons in one God. While these examples are extremely simple (even sophomoric), they make just a much sense, yet have many of the same limitations as the more sophisticated theological models presented above. What is the salvational message here? To me, it is that there is more than one aspect (or Person) of God - a Father, a Son, and a Holy Spirit. Does our salvation hings on whether or not we believe in a Trinity or a "twinity"? I think not. Does it matter whether or not we believe Christ was capable of sinning? I think not; fact is He didn't sin. I don't fully understand the "nature" of my computer or my television, either; but I believe that they operate as advertised when used in accordance with the instructions ("commandments").