Attributes of God – One God, Part 5

The lecture defends the oneness of God and explains the Christian Trinity as a rational and theological solution to issues of power, creation, and omnipresence. It shows that the existence of multiple gods leads to logical contradictions in authority, creation, and eternality, while belief in the one God accords with the attributes of divinity.

Theological detail:
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three hypostases distinguished in operation and properties but they are one divine being with no separation. The divine begetting is not a bodily birth but a figurative comparison: like the radiation or thought proceeding from the mind or the ray proceeding from the sun — there is no separation nor bodily procreation.

Response to pagan examples:
The pagan analogy that speaks of a father and mother and a son by bodily procreation is rejected because that would make one of the hypostases non-eternal or created, which is against the Christian faith that all hypostases of the Trinity share the attributes of the divine essence (eternity, absolute existence, omnipresence).

About evil and Satan:
Evil is not an independent god; Satan is a created being who rebelled by his will, therefore he is not a god but is under God’s authority who permits or restrains according to His wisdom; good existed from the beginning and some angels deviated by their will.

Coptic Orthodox spiritual dimension:
The spiritual meaning is to preserve the mystery of God’s unity within the particularity of His hypostases, and to avoid material or human-like notions of procreation, while affirming that belief in the Trinity does not contradict monotheism but rather completes it in understanding the divine person.

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