Incarnation and Second Person of the Trinity

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In the first post in this series we explained how it can be reasonably argued that the man named Jesus who lived and died in Palestine two thousand years ago is actually the creator God. He is the Second Person included in the unity of the one God of the Bible. Here we speculate a bit about the nature of the Trinity and the role of the Second Person.

Earlier, we explored the Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity, and the role of the Spirit in creating and sustaining the universe. We suggested that the Spirit in its various forms in the Bible could be identified with the universal consciousness or mind as presented in various theories of idealism, psychology and Eastern philosophy.

What about the Second Person, the Son? How does this person differ from the other two referred to as the Father and Spirit?

The Trinity is an antinome, a logical contradiction. How can there be a unity with three somethings? God is seen within classical Christian theology as the ultimate in simplicity as explained in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

“According to the classical theism of Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas and their adherents, God is radically unlike creatures and cannot be adequately understood in ways appropriate to them. God is simple in that God transcends every form of complexity and…