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Old 06-29-2007, 09:18 PM
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First, to answer the question -- there is nothing contradictory in the Trinity because we do not say there are three in the same sense as there are one.
I agree and so would Van Til.

Nope. That's where Van Til would strongly disagree. Van Til said very clearly that God was both one person and three persons and not in two sense but in the same sense. This was one of the points Van Til stressed to justify his on position that we must embracing "apparent contradictions". And notice there is nothing apparent in the contradiction - it is quite explicit and real.
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