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Paper 10

The Paradise Trinity

Universal Censor

10:0.1The Par­a­dise Trin­ity of eter­nal De­i­ties fa­cil­i­tates the Fa­ther’s es­cape from per­son­al­ity ab­so­lutism. The Trin­ity per­fectly as­so­ciates the lim­it­less ex­pres­sion of God’s in­fi­nite per­sonal will with the ab­so­lute­ness of De­ity. The Eter­nal Son and the var­i­ous Sons of di­vine ori­gin, to­gether with the Con­joint Ac­tor and his uni­verse chil­dren, ef­fec­tively pro­vide for the Fa­ther’s lib­er­a­tion from the lim­i­ta­tions oth­er­wise in­her­ent in pri­macy, per­fec­tion, change­less­ness, eter­nity, uni­ver­sal­ity, ab­so­lute­ness, and in­fin­ity.

10:0.2The Par­a­dise Trin­ity ef­fec­tively pro­vides for the full ex­pres­sion and per­fect rev­e­la­tion of the eter­nal na­ture of De­ity. The Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity like­wise af­ford a full and per­fect rev­e­la­tion of di­vine jus­tice. The Trin­ity is De­ity unity, and this unity rests eter­nally upon the ab­so­lute foun­da­tions of the di­vine one­ness of the three orig­i­nal and co-or­di­nate and co­ex­is­tent per­son­al­i­ties, God the Fa­ther, God the Son, and God the Spirit.

10:0.3From the pres­ent sit­u­a­tion on the cir­cle of eter­nity, look­ing back­ward into the end­less past, we can dis­cover only one in­es­cap­able in­evitabil­ity in uni­verse af­fairs, and that is the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. I deem the Trin­ity to have been in­ev­i­ta­ble. As I view the past, pres­ent, and fu­ture of time, I con­sider noth­ing else in all the uni­verse of uni­verses to have been in­ev­i­ta­ble. The pres­ent mas­ter uni­verse, viewed in ret­ro­spect or in prospect, is un­think­able with­out the Trin­ity. Given the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, we can pos­tu­late al­ter­nate or even mul­ti­ple ways of do­ing all things, but with­out the Trin­ity of Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit we are un­able to con­ceive how the In­fi­nite could achieve three­fold and co-or­di­nate per­son­al­iza­tion in the face of the ab­so­lute one­ness of De­ity. No other con­cept of cre­ation mea­sures up to the Trin­ity stan­dards of the com­plete­ness of the ab­so­lute­ness in­her­ent in De­ity unity cou­pled with the re­plete­ness of vo­li­tional lib­er­a­tion in­her­ent in the three­fold per­son­al­iza­tion of De­ity.