A-20 Also, the critique may refer to one particular message in the beginning when the Lord wanted to teach me of the unity of the Holy Trinity. The message that might be questioned was: “I am the Father and the Son. Now do you understand? I am One, I am All in One” (02.03.1987). Here, our Lord wanted me to understand the perfect and ontological unity of the Most Holy Trinity; how the three divine Persons are undivided and so completely one in nature. Like St. Symeon said in his Hymn 45. 7-21: “Three in one and one in three… How could I have known, Lord, that I had such a God, Master and Protector, Father, Brother and King…?” Gradually any non-official terminology was being crystallized with time so if anyone might have had any confusion it became clearer later on. Remember how pope Benedict XIV long ago took note of questionable passages in the writings of the Fathers of the church and the saints, and direct that: …what these have said should be taken, as far as possible, in a good sense… obscure points in one text are to be explained otherwise by clearer texts… seek the mind of the writer, not from a particular phrase, but from the whole context of the work; benevolence should be joined to severity; judgment about views one does not agree with should be made, not on the basis of one’s views but according to the probability of the doctrine (Constitution of introduction of the Index). In one of the earliest messages, I tell how Jesus asked me to “design how the Holy Trinity is”. I describe having a vision of light. Then one light coming out, then another one, making three. Then I commented: “When the Son is in the Father, then they are one. The Holy Trinity is ONE and the same. They can be 3, but all 3 can be one. Result, One God.” This statement employs, I learnt, a metaphor that goes back to the Nicene Creed which declares that the Son came forth from the Father as “light from light”. This image has since become classic in Christian thought. For example Symeon the Theologian, writes of “the One who was in the beginning, before all ages, begotten of the Father, and with the Spirit, God and Word, triple in unity, but one light in the Three” (Hymn 12, 14-18). Sometimes God the Father speaks and it is obvious to any reader who knows the Scriptures that it is indeed the Father who speaks since He would mention words like, “My Son Jesus” etc. Then, it could happen later in the same day that Christ calls me to continue the message and speaks. Again, the reader who knows Scriptures would understand that it is Christ speaking because He would speak of His Wounds or Cross. As for the messages that would start e.g. with the Father, then later on continue with the Son, it would usually contain a reference saying, “later on”. If I did not put any reference to help the one who reads it was because it appeared to me so obvious from the words uttered who was actually speaking that I left them as they were. From the thousands of readers I never received a letter from anyone who asked for clarification on the subject and no-one came to tell me they were confused. Only two clergy in the United States read the message in the wrong way, publishing their views in newsletters over and over again, without ever meeting me. In one passage in the True Life in God writings, Christ says: “I am the Trinity”. Here Christ identifies Himself with the divine nature of the Trinity that is One. Christ is one of the Trinity. Christ speaks as the divinity, since it is one in nature, communicated by each of the three persons. In one of the passages of True Life in God it was Christ speaking: Be blessed My child, I, Your Holy Father love you. I am the Holy Trinity, then He added, You have discerned well. I discerned while Jesus was saying I am your Holy Father, a “triple” Jesus, like those fancy pictures of one person but made as though they are three, one coming out of the other, all similar and all three the same. “I am the Holy Trinity all in one” (11.04.1988) (Unique, undivided, one essence, one substance.) If one looks just at the initial statement attributed to Jesus, one might wonder if He is not identifying Himself with the Father and then with the entire Trinity. But when one reads on, it is clear He is not.
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