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to mystic institute.org. Good morning. So here we are left with this task of discussing this business of processions of divine persons. You see a few

biblical citations, just to remind us that what we're doing here is only a consequence of

divine revelation. No really smart guy or smart old man in Rome thought this up. We're

having this discussion because God has revealed it to us and in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

And there we have a few passages from the New Testament, most of which were included in the

handout from yesterday evening. But if we move right along to item number three,

well, we haven't even gotten through one or two,

but basically we're talking about biblical evidence and a sampling of passages,

I'm not going to bother you with an interpretation of all these passages, but

it's simply enough to show what's at stake here, how we can talk about this business

of our Lord telling his disciples, I and the Father, are one.

Now notice that the project of theology and the

project of biblical interpretation, as Thomas understood it, is not the problem, or is not a project

of proving anything that might be in scripture or in the church's teaching or anything that we

might confess on Sunday morning when we recite the creed. That is all given. That's a matter of faith.

As believers, we take that as given, and we don't call it into question.

If we do, we're not doing Christian theology. We're doing something else.

Maybe religious studies or religious sciences.

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