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Old 07-02-2007, 06:59 PM
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Just in the sense that there are three clear distinct persons in the Godhead. Think of a yard measure. It's made up of three individual feet. No two are the same, but none alone is a yard. If each foot were alone a yard, then there would be three yards, not one. The Godhead is one in the sense of substance, power, and eternity, but three in person.
But isn't Jesus fully God? Would that analogy break down by saying that 1 foot is fully a yard? Jesus is in all attributes God. The foot isn't in all attributes a yard (the attribute of length being different.)
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