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The only way to avoid this contradiction is to assume that God contracted within himself to<br />
produce a space and willingly allowed creation with creatures in his own image with free will.<br />
That indeed was an emptying of his superiority. But then that is the characteristics of Love and<br />
we have the definition of God - God is Love. In love the greater sacrifices for the lesser. One<br />
who serve is greater than the one who is served. There are again two types of images,<br />
holographic and non-holographic. Holographic images carry all the essence of the orginal with<br />
all its dimensions. Think of holography that God could generate - one in essence in all<br />
dimensions. Others do not have the image in all dimensions but in limited dimensions.<br />
This is exactly the picture, Jewish Kabballah presents us which can explain the problem of<br />
incarnation and the creation of life forms in all dimensions. It all forms part of the whole, the<br />
Supreme Deity whom we call God, who cannot be known. We live, move and have our being in<br />
HIM. The cosmos is the body of God - yes body of matter - flesh and blood included.<br />
Incidentally is it surprising that Ruah the Holy Spirit is female gender in the same way as the<br />
Father and Son are male gender? If you look at the function of the Ruah, She does the function<br />
of a mother in the regeneration. “It is the spirit that gives life”(John 6:63).<br />
But the early church avoided the ‘She’ in order to avoid the implication of sexual relation. (Sex<br />
is not the only form of reproduction even in nature). Just as Eve came out of Adam, the Ruah<br />
emanates from the Father eternally. They are united as Echad (One). As such the picture<br />
evidently was one of a family with identical DNA, and united as Echad (One). In fact all creation<br />
partake of the divinity of God but not in essence. This is indeed indicated in the union of the<br />
Church, the bride of Christ as the body of Christ. The Orthodox Church uses the term ‘theosis’-<br />
being transformed into the image of Christ.<br />
Is there hierarchy in the <strong>Trinity</strong>? Yes indeed there is. Jesus Himself says ”The Father is<br />
greater than me”. But then hierarchy is not determined by power struggle since greater in the<br />
Kingdom is one who serves most. That is why early church used the term coequal - there indeed<br />
is struggle to serve one another within the <strong>Trinity</strong>.<br />
The redemption of the fallen creation is complete when the words of Jesus is fulfilled:<br />
“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one<br />
in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me<br />
I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:I in them, and thou in me, that<br />
they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast<br />
loved them, as thou hast loved me.” John 17:21-23<br />
As you can see our two dimensional representation of God and his creation will be always<br />
defective. It is this attempt that led to the struggle in the Doctrine of God. What is seen as an<br />
attempt to explain God by one Church will appear as orthodox for<br />
that church and heresy for the other.<br />
Hope someday we will all be One in the body of Christ and will be<br />
united with him to form the family of God and the creation itself will<br />
be redeemed.<br />
Rom 8:19-21 The creation waits in eager expectation for the<br />
revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to<br />
futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it,<br />
in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to<br />
decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.<br />
Prof. M.M.Ninan<br />
Illinois, April, 2017