Shades of the Trinity Dogma
Heaven is found within God's love, pope says
"Heaven is not a location in the cosmos, but a place within God where those who believe in him will enjoy his love forever, Pope Benedict XVI said."
From the Catholic Encyclopedia:
The dogma of the Trinity
The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion — the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another.
Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God." In this Trinity of Persons the Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son. Yet, notwithstanding this difference as to origin, the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent. This, the Church teaches, is the revelation regarding God's nature which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came upon earth to deliver to the world: and which she proposes to man as the foundation of her whole dogmatic system.
The meaning of "unity" is defined in the
“Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” as follows:
252 The Church uses (I) the term
"substance" (rendered also at times by "essence" or
"nature") to designate the divine being in its unity,
(II) the term "person" or "hypostasis" to designate
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the real distinction among them, and
(III) the term "relation" to designate the fact that their distinction
lies in the relationship of each to the others. . .
253
The Trinity is One. We do not
confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial
Trinity".83 The divine persons do not share the one divinity
among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that
which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that
which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God."
254
The divine persons are really distinct from
one another. "God is one but not solitary."86
"Father", "Son", "Holy Spirit" are not simply
names designating modalities of the divine being, for they are really
distinct from one another: "He is not the Father who is the Son, nor
is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who is the Father or
the Son."87 They are distinct from one another in their
relations of origin: "It is the Father who generates, the Son who is
begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds."88 The divine
Unity is Triune.
(Emphasis added.)
What a distorted, blasphemous conception of God!
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EXCERPT FROM DECEMBER, 2007, CORRRESPONDENCE WITH A
SISTER IN QUEBEC, CANADA