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FIRST PRIMINLINARY:ACCORDING TO ROMAN CATHOLIC DOGMA OF TRINITY OF GOD, GOD IS A TRIUNE BEING ,I.E GOD IS A BEING WHICH IS A TRINITY. THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE\SUBSTANCE\OUSIA IN THE BEING WHICH IS GOD ,THREE MUTUALLY DISTINCT HYPOSTASES\HYPOSTATIC PERSONS AND FOUR RELATIONS AMONG THREE HYPOSTATIC PERSONS , ALL IN THE OUSIA OF THE BEING WHICH IS GOD. THE BEINGNESS (EXISTENCE) OF THE BEING ,WHICH IS GOD IS IDENTICAL TO THE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSNCE\OUSIA OF GOD , HENCE THE PER SE SUBSISTENT OUSIA\ ESSENCE OF THE GOD IS A BEING. THIS BEING IS VERY IDENTICAL TO THE BEING WHICH IS GOD. THUS THE BEING WHICH IS GOD IS ALSO THE BEING IF THE GOD. SECOND PRIMILINARY:ACCORDING TO THE RAMAN CATHOLIC DOGMA OF TRINITY THE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE\OUSIA IS PRIOR TO EACH AND EVERY HYPOSTATIC PERSON\ HYPOSTASIS . ON THE CONTRARY ACCORDING TO THE GREEK ORTHODOX DOGMA OF TRINITY THESE HYPOSTATIC PERSONS \HYPOSTASES ARE PRIOR TO THE PARSE SUBSISTEN OUSIA \ESSENCE. ACCORDING TO CATHOLICAL TRINITY :1) THE SECOND HYPOSTASIS DOES:A) PROCEED \ISSUE FROM THE FIRST HYPOSTASIS BY A PROCESSION \ ISSUANCE CALLED GENERATION. B) PROCEED \ ISSUE AS A TERM OF AN IMMENANT ACT OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTE \QUALITY OF INTELLECT. 2) THE THIRD AND LAST HYPOSTASE \HYPOSTASIS DOES:A) PROCEED \ ISSUE FROM THE FIRST AND SECOND HYPOSTASES BY A PROCESSION \ISSUANCE CALLED SPIRATION. B) PROCEED\ ISSUE AS A TERM OF AN IMMENAT ACT OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTE OF WILL. ORTHODOXIAL TRINITY DIFFERS FROM CATHOLICAL TRINITY ON THESE ISSUES. 1] THE SECOND HPOSTASIS IS ATERM OF THE ACT OF UTTERING OR IT IS THE ATTRIBUTE OF POWER OF GOD. THIS TERM IS CALLED LOGOS. 2] THE THIRD AND THE LAST HYPOSTASIS IS ISSUED\PROCEEDED ONLY FROM THE FIRST HYPOSTASIS. THEIR BESIC BELIEF IS THAT IT IS ISSUED INDEPENDENT OF THE SECOND HYPOSTASIS. HOW EVER SOME COMPROMISING MINORITY IN GREEK ORTHODOX BELIEVE THAT IT IS ONLY ISSUED\ PROCEEDED FROM THE FIRST HYPOSTASIS BUT THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THE SECOND HYPOSTASIS. BOTH GREEKS AND ROMANS HOW EVER AGREE THAT THE FIRST HYPOSTASIS IS AN UNISSUED \ UNPROCEEDED HYPOSTASIS. THIRD PRIMILINARY:ATTIBUTES AND QUALITIES OF GOD THE BEING ARE REFFERED TO THE PERSE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE\ OUSIA OF GOD THE BEING. HOW EVER THIS PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE \ OUSIA OF THE BEING OF GOD IS NOT A SUBSTRATUM IN WHICH DIVINE ATTRIBUTES\QUALITIES SUBSIST, RATHER THESE ATTRIBUTES\ QUALITIES ARE IDENTICAL IDENTITICAL TO THE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE\OUSIA OR ARE RELATIONS B/W THE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE\OUSIA OF GOD THE BEING AND THE CREATED BEINGS. FORTH PRILMILINARY:DIVINE ABSOLUTE ATTRIBUTES\QUALITIES [ SOME TIME CALLED DIVINE ATTRIBUTES\QUALITIES] ARE IDENTICAL TO THE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE\OUSIA OF THE BEING GOD. DIVINE RELATIVE ATTRIBUTES\QUALITIES [SOME TIMES CALLED RELATIVE ATTRIBUTES\QUALITIES] ARE RELATIONS IN GENERAL ARE EXTERNAL RELATIONS. ATTRIBUTES\QUALITIES LIKE OMNISCIENCE,OMNIPOTENCE,WILL ETC. CONSTITUTE SPICIAL CASES. THEY ARE HOW EVER IDENTICAL TO THE DIVINE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE\OUSIA. FIFTH PRIMILINARY:AS THE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE\OUSIA IN THE DIVINE BEING OF GOD IS IDENTICAL TO THE ATTRIBUTES LIKE SELF EXISTING,OMNIPOTENCE,OMNISCIENCE,WILL,INTELLECT ETC. EACH ONE OF THE ABOVE MENSIONED ATTRIBUTES ARE PRIOR TO EACH AND HYPOSTASIS. FURTHER IT IS INCORRECT TO ASSUME THAT :1] TOEACH AND EVERY HYPOSTASIS THERE IS A WILL SUCH THAT THERE ARE THREE WILLS, ONE TO EACH HYPOSTASIS. 2]TO EACH AN EVERY HYPOSTASIS THERE IS AN OMNIPOTECE SUCH THAT THERE ARE THREE OMNIPOTENCES. 3]TO EACH AND EVERY HYPOSTASIS THERE IS A SELF EXISTENCE SUCH THAT THERE ARE THREE SELF EXIISTENCES. INSTEAD OF THREE WILLS THREE OMNIPOTENCES ETC. THERE IS ONLY ONE WILL, ONLY ONE OMNIPOTENCE ETC. WHICH ARE ASCRIBED TO THE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE \ OUSIA OF THE BEING GOD. THESE ATTRIBUTES ARE NEITHER DISTINCT FROM THE ESSENCE NOR COMMUNICABLE TO THE ESSENCE BUT IDENTICAL TO THE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE OF GOD THE BEING. THESE ATTRIBUTES \QUALITIES ARE:1]EITHER IDENTICAL TO THE ESSENCE REGARDLESS OF ANY THING. 2] OR IN REGARD TOEVERY THING WITH OUT EXCEPTION. BUT PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE \OUSIA OF GOD THE BEING IS COMMUNICABLE TO EACH ONE OF THE ABOVE MENSIONED ATTRIBUTE \ QUALITY AND EACH HYPOSTASIS IS IDENTITICAL TO THE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE \OUSIA OF THE BEING OF GOD IN ONLY ONE REGARD.


NEITHER CERTAINLY IN ALL REGARDS [ TOALL THINGS] NOR CERTAINLY REGARDLESS OF ANY THING. CONCLISION:1] INSPITE OF INFINTELY COMPLEX INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF GOD IT IS CLAIMED THAT SIMPLICITY IS THE ATTRIBUTE \QUALITY OF GOD. 2]INSPITE OF BEING PER SE SUBSISTENT IT IS CLAIMED THAT THESE HYPOSTASES ARE NEITHER ARE NEITHER SUBSTANCES NOR ESSENCES. 3]INSPITE OF BEING VERY CLOSE TO BE A PERSON \ HYPOSTASIS THE DIVINE PER SE SUBSITENT ESSENCE \OUSIA IS NOT A PERSON \HYPOSTASIS. A NUMBER OF NON TRINITARIANS HAVE ARGUED THAT THE PER SE SUBSISTENT ESSENCE APPAEARS TO BE THE FORTH HYPOSTESIS THUS TRINITY BECOMES QUARTINITY OR TETERANITY. BUT CAHOLIC THEOLOGIANS HAD ANTICIPATED THIS OBJECTION .THEY DECLAIRED THAT SINCE IT IS COMMUNICABLE TO EACH OF THE HYPOSTASIS IT IS NOT A PERSON\HYPOSTASIS. HAD IT BEEN INCOMMUNICABLE AND DISTINCT FROM THEM IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A HYPOSTASIS\PERSON. HOW EVER ONE MAY RENAME THEM PERSON-OID OR HYPOSTASIS-OID . THIS NEW TERM NOT ONLY SHEWS THAT IT IS NOT A PERSON \HYPOSTASIS BUT ALSO SHEWS THAT IT IS NOT AN IMPERSONAL ESSENCE\OUSIA.


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