hammondjones
Puritan Board Junior
Integer addition is commutative by nature. 3+4=4+3
(Godly) marriage is commutative by nature. I am married to my wife, and she is married to me.
Human love is not necessarily commutative by nature. I may love someone unrequitedly.
In the realm of Trinitarian relations...
The Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father (perichoresis).
The Father grants the Son to have life in himself, but the Son does not grant the Father to have life in himself.
We confess that the Son is of consubstantial with the Father (ὁμοούσιον τῷ Πατρί). Is the Father consubstantial with the Son?
(Godly) marriage is commutative by nature. I am married to my wife, and she is married to me.
Human love is not necessarily commutative by nature. I may love someone unrequitedly.
In the realm of Trinitarian relations...
The Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father (perichoresis).
The Father grants the Son to have life in himself, but the Son does not grant the Father to have life in himself.
We confess that the Son is of consubstantial with the Father (ὁμοούσιον τῷ Πατρί). Is the Father consubstantial with the Son?