lifelong_sinner
Puritan Board Freshman
I recently had a non-reformed person tell me that we, mankind are triune. I cant find any scripture about this. My first thoughts on this are, its blasphemous, but am i wrong?
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Not to mention that triune and tripartite are mutually exclusive by definition!No, man is not triune. “Triune” is a word combining “tri” and “unity.” To say that man is triune assumes, for one thing, a tripartite anthropology, which many do not accept. For another thing, even if one assumes a tripartite anthropology, man cannot be triune in any sense the way God is, since with God’s triunity come simplicity, consubstantiality, etc. Man might be three, but three parts, each of different substances.
Saying man is triune might sound clever, but it is confusing, at best.
So here is what the person said to me, as he was saying Sproul and the gnostics were alike, yet wrong.
“They seem to be ignorant that mankind is more than flesh and blood.
Man is a triune being just as God is,
O, yes our flesh also has a Soul!
And this Soul is everlasting.
It is not flesh. It is spirit.
Just as God is Spirit.
We can believe and desire God while still lost because we have more than just flesh and bones.
God created man in His image.
We have souls that desire God.”
Exactly. Very well and succinctly stated.Not to mention that triune and tripartite are mutually exclusive by definition!