Explaining the Godhead to our children

[seekerman]

Originally Posted by Pastor Keith

My water analogy is complicated?

Yes. When one starts examining that analogy, you begin having constraints on the bottle and the water and the composition of the water and the bottle, ect. ect.

It's not a bottle and water, it's simple, it's a Father and a Son.

[Pastor Keith]

Originally Posted by seekerman

Yes. When one starts examining that analogy, you begin having constraints on the bottle and the water and the composition of the water and the bottle, ect. ect.

It's not a bottle and water, it's simple, it's a Father and a Son.

Well, with any analogy there is a break down.

I think you may be complicating it.

Spirit and Flesh!

[bbyrd009]

I thought it was an elegant analogy, and translated well to the spiritual meaning. My prayers go with you for India.

[seekerman]

Why even use an analogy? There's a Father and there's a Son. The Father is not the Son and the Son is not the Father.

Why isn't that simple enough to teach?

[kclee4jc]

Originally Posted by seekerman

Why even use an analogy? There's a Father and there's a Son. The Father is not the Son and the Son is not the Father.

Why isn't that simple enough to teach?

Because its a lie!!! Isaiah 9:6 says that the Son will be called the 'Mighty God, Everlasting Father"! We teach the Father was manifested in the Son because that's what the Bible says.

[seekerman]

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

Because its a lie!!! Isaiah 9:6 says that the Son will be called the 'Mighty God, Everlasting Father"! We teach the Father was manifested in the Son because that's what the Bible says.

Maybe the writers of the bible was wrong by using the Father and the Son and their separation and distinction as examples?

The NT is chock full of such examples.

[kclee4jc]

Originally Posted by seekerman

Maybe the writers of the bible was wrong by using the Father and the Son and their separation and distinction as examples?

The NT is chock full of such examples.

Those examples are relational. Jesus is the "fullness of the Godhead". He fullfilled it all. He revealed himself as Father, Son, and Spirit. And he doesnt have to be three people fulfill those roles.