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PHall | March 1, 2024
The Trinity by Association Names not only identify, but they associate. My last name is Hall, which is my I.D. on my driver’s license. That name ties my wife and me together when hers changed due to marriage. Association also comes in the form of identical goals. Again, marriage should have such commonality. We see […]
PHall | November 17, 2018
The Jewish Bible is filled with foreshadowing of God’s true nature, that of a plural singularity. Most of familiar with the “let us” passages. One lesser known allusion is very strikingly connected to the NT: JPS Tanakh 1917 – Genesis 19:24 – “Then the LORD caused to rain upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and […]
PHall | November 5, 2018
This makes for bad grammar, but beautiful yet mysterious theology. Notice how the language deals straightforwardly with the reality that God is singular yet plural without analogy, metaphor, or trying to explain: Genesis 1:26-27: “Then God/elohim (plural) said, “Let us (plural) make man (singular) in our (plural) image (singular), according to our (plural) likeness (singular). […]
PHall | September 8, 2014
A group of co-equal persons, even partners, working together as one, in a common love, to serve one another and others, is not only a description of the church, but of the Trinity! What an unexpected reality, that we are granted the privilege to reenact the inner and outer workings of the Triune God. Now […]
PHall | June 26, 2014
What do you think of when I say, “three in one?” What would you think if I said that while each is individual, all three are part of the whole? That while you can separate one from the other, they cannot be totally separate? What would you think if I described the first of the […]
PHall | October 28, 2013
Got asked to explain the Trinity on Facebook. We can explain, illustrate and hopefully understand, but since men have enough difficultly understanding women, this is indeed a daunting task. The simplest illustration might be the most neglected, and that is God’s. We are made in the image of God. Therefore we should look to how […]