"But while Sabellius maintained that there was but one divine person, he still believed the distinction of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, described in the Scriptures, to be a real distinction, and not a mere appellative or nominal one.
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In mainstream Christianity, the Holy Spirit is one of the three divine persons of the substance of God; that is, the Spirit is considered to act in concert with and share an essential nature with God the Father and God the Son ( Jesus ).
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For Volf, the practice of embrace is ultimately rooted in God s Trinitarian nature in God s love, which is unconditional because it is the very being of God, and in the mutual indwelling of the divine persons ( whose boundaries are therefore reciprocally porous ).
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The Trinitarian doxology addressed in parallel fashion to all three Divine Persons of the Trinity, joined by " and " ( ??? ), as in the form of baptism,, became universal in Nicaean Christianity, which became dominant with the Edict of Thessalonica of 380.
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The Missal as revised in 1970 requires such a bow only " when the three Divine Persons are named together and at the names of Jesus, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Saint in whose honour Mass is being celebrated " ( " General Instruction ", 275 ).
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The Cuban leader told hundreds of economists gathered for the five-day event that he didn't consider himself " a kind of prophet or divine person " but that he was sure that the current neoliberal global economy " sooner than later will have to cease to exist ."
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Thus he assumed a human body without altering the immutable divine Father . ( Eusebius never calls Jesus " o the�s ", but " the�s " ) because in all contrary attempts he suspected either polytheism ( three distinct gods ) or Sabellianism ( three modes of one divine person ).
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None of these writers, however, makes the Spirit s mode of origin the object of special reflection; all are concerned, rather, to emphasize the equality of status of all three divine persons as God, and all acknowledge that the Father alone is the source of God s eternal being ."
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The doctrine of three persons is regarded as inherently illogical by the New Church : " In the ideas of thought a Trinity of Divine Persons from eternity, or before the world was created, is a Trinity of Gods; and these ideas cannot be effaced by a lip-confession of one God ."
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"None of these writers, however, makes the Spirit's mode of origin the object of special reflection; all are concerned, rather, to emphasize the equality of status of all three divine persons as God, and all acknowledge that the Father alone is the source of God's eternal being ."
