2022/05/30

41. "My church" and the Triune God

Jesus' "my church" (Matthew 16:18) has the significant role of being a community where visitors can encounter God, as Peter's confession indicates (cf. Matthew 16:16). God made known the one God through Jesus in three modes of existence - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - so that people may fully realise they were created in the likeness of God. People fulfil what they conceived with their "will" and "knowledge" by making it into "word" and putting it into an act, and then they again verbalise what was done and memorise it as "information". As Jesus said, "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only" (Matthew 24:36), so in the case of God, the Son fulfils what the Father conceived with "the will of God" and "the knowledge of God" by making it into "the word of God" and putting it into an act, and then the Holy Spirit re-verbalises what was done and memorises it as "divine information." The following description in Genesis illustrates this fact: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters" (Genesis 1:1-2). When God created the heavens and the earth, "the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters," in other words, the Holy Spirit was recording what the word of God had fulfilled as "divine information." Jesus came to earth carrying the "will of God" and the "knowledge of God" from the Father to be born human into the world. The ''life'' Jesus said in the phrase: "For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself" (John 5:26), can be considered to be the ''will of God." The Father and the Son share the "knowledge of God" because Jesus said, "the Father knows me and I know the Father" (John 10:15). On the other hand, as Jesus said of the Holy Spirit, "All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you" (John 16:15), the Holy Spirit, who was to descend, received everything Jesus had accomplished and made it "divine information." After that, the Holy Spirit established the New Testament by connecting with the disciples, who had been taught by Jesus and had the worldview of Jesus Christ, drawing from their memory the words spoken by Jesus and collaborating with them (cf. this blog № 40). As we have been discussing, the Holy Family was prepared in the likeness of the Triune God so that Jesus, the Triune God, could become a man. Therefore, the Holy Family is the model of Jesus' "my church" (cf. this blog № 31, № 34). The idea of the Holy Family receiving the only Son of God is based on the fact that the relationship between God and people is that of parent and child (cf. this blog № 26, № 27, №28). However, this basis has been left ambiguous. Next time, I will discuss the circumstances and start the second half from chapter 13 of Book of Revelation.

Maria K. M.