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TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN Hebrews 9:14 – "How much more will the Blood of Christ, who through an eternal Spirit, offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works, that we may render sacred service to the living God?" Most nontrinitarians admit that the Holy Spirit had no beginning, but believe it is not an actual person like the Father is. Nontrinitarians also agree that all three are essential, but contend that it is obvious that God the Father is ultimate, and is the one who is ultimately reached, and therefore, although all are divine and essential, the "living God" the Father is still greater than the other two entities. And that a "co-equal trinity" is still not explicitly taught in the passage, but only inferred or assumed. 167
TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN APPENDIX 5 SYNODAL CHRISTOLOGICAL CONFESSIONS OF THE NESTORIAN CHURCHES OF THE EAST Synod of Mar Aqaq, AD 486 But our faith in the dispensation of Christ should also be in a confession of two natures of Godhead and manhood, none of us venturing to introduce mixture, commingling, or confusion into the distinctions of those two natures. Instead, while Godhead remains and is preserved in that which belongs to it, and manhood in that which belongs to it, we combine the copies of their natures in one Lordship and one worship because of the perfect and inseparable conjunction which the Godhead had with the manhood. If anyone thinks or teaches others that suffering and change adhere to the Godhead of our Lord, not preserving — in regard to the union of the pars\opa of our Savior — the confession of perfect God and perfect man, the same shall be anathema. (Synod of Mar Aqaq, AD 486) Synod of Mar Aba, AD 544 . . . These things were made known with precision by the gift of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples, who learned from the Holy Spirit that Christ is not ordinary man, nor God stripped of the clothing of manhood in which he was revealed, but Christ is God and man, that is, manhood which is anointed with [the Godhead] which anoints it. As it is written, “Therefore God, your God, anoints you with the oil of gladness above your fellows,” the same making known his manhood. Again, “In the beginning was the Word,” this showing his Godhead, which exists eternally and for ever, which created all that is seen and all that is unseen, and exists in three qnome, without beginning, without change, without passion, and without division, which are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. As our Lord said — for by him the eternal Trinity was made known — as he spoke concerning himself, “Destroy this temple,” that is, the manhood with which he clothed himself, and again said, “My Father, who [dwells] in me, performs these works,” and again concerning the Holy Spirit who is in him when he said, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Because of this he has anointed me.” Behold, from the title “Christ” we learned about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and we have understood his manhood from the same, and in it is the seal of the entire confession of Christianity. Anyone who does not confess in this way, let him be anathematized. Anyone who introduces a “quaternity” into the holy and immutable Trinity, let him be anathematized. Anyone who does not confess that in the last time the Only-begotten Son of God, who is Christ our Lord, was revealed in the flesh, let him be anathematized. Anyone who does not acknowledge the suffering and death of the manhood of Christ, and the impassibility of his Godhead, let him be anathematized. Or anyone who seals a prayer with the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit but numbers some other with them, or does not believe that in the name “Son” he refers to the Godhead and manhood of Christ together, or anyone who seals a prayer with the name of Christ and not as confessing the Trinity, let him be anathematized. (Synod of Mar Aba, AD 544) 168
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