A lot of Christian believers have difficulty when it comes to explaining the Trinity, how we worship a God Who is triune, He is absolutely one in His incorporeal, spiritual essence, but three in personhood. That is why we say that God is Spirit, He is the invisible God, although He has the ability to manifest in physical, human form and take on genuine flesh.
God is the omnipotent, omniscient, all-wise, invisible, Divine essence. Emanating from this essence within are three distinct minds: the minds of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These minds are all distinct from one another, and these minds constitute three Persons. The fullness of Deity is co-equally accessed by each Person, which is why we say they are each individually God, but the Persons are not each other.
The first person of the Trinity, the Father, is the eternal source and generator of the other two persons, of the Spirit and of the Son. When we say that Jesus is the Son of God, as well as God Himself, we say that because He is of the exact, same omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent "God" essence as the Father, and He is the "Son" in the sense of rank, as a procession of generation of Deity from the Father to the Son.
The doctrine of eternal generation of the Son, by the Father, does not mean that the Father created the Son at a point in time, which is what Arians would say. Rather, the eternal generation of the Son is an eternal personal act of the Father, wherein, by necessity of nature, not by choice of will, He generates the person (not the essence) of the Son, by communicating to Him the whole indivisible substance of the Godhead, without division, alienation, or change, so that the Son is the express image of His Father's person, and eternally continues, not from the Father, but in the Father, and the Father in the Son."
In a similar fashion, I am the son of a human being, and I am a human being at the same time. A father passes down genetics and other traits to his son, in the same way that God the Father generates the Son and the Spirit by His procession.
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God is the omnipotent, omniscient, all-wise, invisible, Divine essence. Emanating from this essence within are three distinct minds: the minds of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These minds are all distinct from one another, and these minds constitute three Persons. The fullness of Deity is co-equally accessed by each Person, which is why we say they are each individually God, but the Persons are not each other.
The first person of the Trinity, the Father, is the eternal source and generator of the other two persons, of the Spirit and of the Son. When we say that Jesus is the Son of God, as well as God Himself, we say that because He is of the exact, same omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent "God" essence as the Father, and He is the "Son" in the sense of rank, as a procession of generation of Deity from the Father to the Son.
The doctrine of eternal generation of the Son, by the Father, does not mean that the Father created the Son at a point in time, which is what Arians would say. Rather, the eternal generation of the Son is an eternal personal act of the Father, wherein, by necessity of nature, not by choice of will, He generates the person (not the essence) of the Son, by communicating to Him the whole indivisible substance of the Godhead, without division, alienation, or change, so that the Son is the express image of His Father's person, and eternally continues, not from the Father, but in the Father, and the Father in the Son."
In a similar fashion, I am the son of a human being, and I am a human being at the same time. A father passes down genetics and other traits to his son, in the same way that God the Father generates the Son and the Spirit by His procession.
Hope this helped.
You can also check this out: https://www.theopedia.com/eternal-generation-of-the-son
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