EZEKIEL 36:26
I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
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……The single, greatest mystery that forever presides outside of the realm of human reason and comprehension is the “perpetuity of God”, being He “who is with no beginning and no end”. Unravelling this mystery is a feat that defies even the most advanced faculties of cognitive engineering and deductive arithmetic. For as long as time has been, even with a phalanx of all the best minds that ever existed applied for all of time “as one”, this notion would yet remain, as it does now, an enigma that is wholly beyond the reach of man.
One of the most apt descriptions of having “no beginning and no end” is “FROM everlasting TO everlasting”. And for God, only, can it be said that “even from everlasting to everlasting, thou ART God.” – PSALM 90:2. As an abiding mystery, then, “our God as a God without beginning or end” is not only a feat of comprehension that will thoroughly dislocate the human mind, but in itself, it stands alone as a mystery that is equally without end.
As with the mystery of Melchizedek, who is “without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life” – HEBREWS 7:3, in the same way, our God is one who is from everlasting to everlasting, being entirely without beginning or end. And whilst God is timeless, yet another complexity that exhausts the rigour of applied reason is the phenomenon of the “Holy Trinity”. When it comes to the three Persons of the holy Godhead, it baffles the mind to come to terms with a “plurality that is a singularity”.
For our failing is that we think “arithmetically“, when we should at least be thinking as an approximation of how God thinks, which is in part “mathematically“. Whereas arithmetic deals with “addition, subtraction, multiplication and division”, arithmetic is merely a branch of mathematics. When it comes to arithmetic as “a branch” of mathematics, in the same way that man is to God what “a branch” is to the vine (JOHN 15:5), arithmetic is said to be unto mathematics what spelling is to writing. Arithmetic deals with “calculations”, whilst mathematics deals with “relationships”. Man fails at grasping the possibility of representing the numerical challenge of “a plurality as a singularity” when man tries to represent God as “a calculation”, as opposed to attempting to rather grasp the Trinity “as a relationship”. In this way, even when the Old Testament uses a plural Hebrew noun to refer to God, the numerical integrity of a “single God as three” remains mathematically intact.
Man fails at grasping the possibility of representing the numerical challenge of “a plurality as a singularity” when man tries to represent God as “a calculation”, as opposed to attempting to rather grasp the Trinity “as a relationship”
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Equally, then, we could also apply the solution “that is relationship” to then unlock further mysteries too. Such as, since “God is Spirit”, it solves a measure of our understanding of the spiritual in that the spiritual is fundamentally “a relationship matter”. At the same time, relationship is also the key to understanding the complexity of man as his own trinity of “spirit, soul and body”.
Nevertheless, given the notable importance of “RELATIONSHIP”, there is, at the same time, a numerical significance to the “number 3”. The flagship of the kingdom of God is relationship. In spiritual terms, the number three refers to “completion”. In that sense, not only do our RELATIONSHIPS define us, and add to us, it is RELATIONSHIP, ultimately, that also completes us. It is most definitely not our possessions, being the flagship of the countermanding way of the “kingdom of the world”.
The best illustration of this is with the Holy Trinity. In the holy Trinity, there are “three” Persons. And it is all three who COMPLETE God. But at the same time, it is also their “relationship” that DISTINGUISHES each of those three Persons from one other. The title “Father” denotes one relationship role, just like “Son” denotes another relationship role. And again, just as the Holy Spirit as “the Helper” denotes a further relationship role of God. And whilst they are all “distinguished” BY their relationships, it is IN their relationship and their love for one another, that they are also “united”. As THREE “in relationship” or communion, they become ONE “in unity and love” or community – one God. One Trinity. A plurality that is a singularity.
One of the mathematical illustrations of a “relationship that is a trinity” is a TRIANGLE. And when speaking of “triangles” and “threes”, if one stops and takes a look at the flag of Israel, being the flag of both the physical land and the spiritual kingdom set aside by God Himself for His people, the flag’s symbol is the image of “two” triangles (plurality) superimposed over each another as a single, distinct entity (singularity). As two individual triangles, they represent, on the one hand, the “relationship of the trinity of God”, being as ONE in their unity and union, as well as, on the other hand, the “relationship of the trinity of man” (spirit, soul and body), also all as ONE in unity and union. And so, if man is three, yet always only one, why is it then difficult to appreciate that God is three, yet always only one too?
As two individual triangles, they represent, on the one hand, the “relationship of the trinity of God“, being as ONE in their unity and union, as well as, on the other hand, the “relationship of the trinity of man” (spirit, soul and body), also all as ONE in unity and union. And so, if man is three, yet always only one, why is it then difficult to appreciate that God is three, yet always only one too?
Given that mathematics deals with “relationships”, then by uniting both triangles “in relationship” as “a single image”, the symbol that is the “flag of Israel“, being the symbol of a plurality represented as a singularity, and being, therefore, also the “symbol of relationship” – and the symbol of the primordial and archetypal relationship specifically – then, besides being the strongest shape in all of nature, it mathematically and relationally proves THREE things:
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- Whilst we are “set apart” and distinguished from another by relationship, it is by relationship that we also become “as one” – in oneness of mind; of heart; and of understanding. With both triangles in perfect unity and union, being representative of the sovereign end goal of when man “as son” returns to his former healthy and normal relationship with God “as Father“, this end state is one of the chief pursuits and objectives of what it is to “live authentically”. Furthermore, being in rich harmony and solidarity with each other also marks the occasion of the Son’s prayer made unto the Father in JOHN 17:21 being thus fulfilled. “That they may all be one; as you Father are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us.” A complete return to a harmonious and loving relationship is ultimately both “the form and the function” of what it epitomizes for man to “live authentically”. Whilst “relationship” is the FUNCTION, the FORM is specifically one of relationship as “Father and son”, being the living example of the relationship between “God the Father” and “God the Son” showing us all the way how, being an example that we are to all learn from and to take our lead from in order to live authentic, blueprinted lives.
- And since all children learn by imitation, when we do take our lead from that example, it is upon the momentous event of the “plurality that is God” and the “plurality that is man” becoming one through this re-kindled and re-established relationship, that God “as Father” then also answers all of man’s prayers as His “beloved child”. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.” – JOHN 16:23. “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” – MATTHEW 7:9.
- The third thing this mathematically proves is that when it comes to “completion”, God is also ALWAYS thinking of man. And when it comes to “relationship”, God always has man on His heart. Which proves that not only does God both “think AND love” mathematically, which is in terms of “relationship”, but it also suggests that whilst God may be complete in Himself, it shows that when it comes to His relationship “as Father“, God is most complete when He is in complete relationship with all who are His own “as that Father” – being all of man, His very own beloved “sons and daughters”.
And in so doing, when it comes to the mathematics, the mystery and the marvel of relationship, the relationship of one that is the “the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit“, produces in its then relationship with man these three things: a COMPLETE work, by a COMPLETE God, through the sumptuous heart of a COMPLETE Father.x
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