To my understanding all 3 persons in the Trinity have different roles but it seems to me that the Father has greater authority than the Son and the Spirit. Is that correct? If the answer is yes then i have a question concerning why the Father does have higher authority in the Trinity? I was thinking that it might be because what if one person in the Trinity wants ( for example) a cow to be purple while another person in the Trinity wants it to be red, then who would have the right to create something in a such a way rather than the other? Although moral decisions in this case would be united inside the Trinity even if all 3 had the same authority since God overall is All good. So then only on moral neutral areas there would be a stalemate and authority would be needed by one of the persons in the Trinity.
Is this correct? Any thoughts?
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Authority in the Trinity
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Re: Authority in the Trinity
I don't really accept the traditional view of the Trinity since it seems to conflict with God's oneness as stressed repeatley in the Bible, as opposed to God's trinitarian nature which is mentioned zero times in the Bible. I believe that the doctrine of the Trinity is for the most part invented by the church based on insufficent Biblical support.
But that aside, since all three are God I imagine their wills are always in harmony with eachother so no real chain of command among them is necessary. I think that's probably what most Trinitarians would say.
But that aside, since all three are God I imagine their wills are always in harmony with eachother so no real chain of command among them is necessary. I think that's probably what most Trinitarians would say.
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