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How does God do this? He does it by separating himself from the Absolute Person. When he separates himself from the Absolute Person, three things happen:
How does God do this? He does it by separating himself from the Absolute Person. When he separates himself from the Absolute Person, three things happen:
*In removing himself from the Absolute Person, God causes this being to exist separate and apart from himself. He thus becomes the cause and the source of the Absolute Person.
*If God is the "cause' and the "source" of something, and if that something is a person, then God is the father of that person; therefore, if he can be the father of the Absolute Person then God can be the father of any and all persons, and thus he becomes the "Universal" Father.
*If God becomes the "father" of the Absolute Person, this makes that Absolute Person the Original Son of God; but he is nonetheless the Absolute Person for becoming the Son of God. It is customary to speak of this Original Son as the "Eternal Son, because all of this is happening in eternity.
This is the beginning of the divine fraternity of the eternal Persons of Deity which is soon to be completed by the appearance of the Third Person - the Infinite Spirit.
This is the beginning of the divine fraternity of the eternal Persons of Deity which is soon to be completed by the appearance of the Third Person - the Infinite Spirit.
