not a maths problem

The Scriveners are busy at the moment. And I for one am grateful for that. 

Come Dancing

The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are each centering on the others, adoring and serving them. And because the Father, Son, and Spirit are giving glorifying love to one another, God is infinitely, profoundly happy. 
Think about this: If you find somebody you adore, someone for whom you would do anything, and you discover that this person feels the same way about you, does that feel good? It's sublime! 
That's what God has been enjoying for all eternity. 
The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are pouring love and joy and adoration into the other, each one serving the other. 
They are infinitely seeking one another's glory, and so God is infinitely happy. 
And if it's true that this world has been created by this triune God, then ultimate reality is a dance. 


p8 King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

A House for My Name

 Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?  

Tell me, if you understand. 

Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! 

Who stretched a measuring line across it?  

On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone 

--  while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? 

Job 38:4-7 

"When God first appears in the Bible, He is building a house. 
God makes His house through His Word and Spirit. All three Persons of God are working to build His House. The Father speaks and things are made. He says. 'Let there be light,' and there is light. Other places in the Bible, we learn that the 'Word' that makes the world is the 'Word' that is God (John 1:1-5). And this Word becomes man in Jesus. The Spirit is mentioned too in Genesis 1:2: 'The Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.'"   A House for My Name, p44

From glory to glory

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters (Genesis 1v2)

Thus, the Spirit had been inserted into the earthly realm from the heavenly realm, proceeding from the Father and the Son, evidently at the precise moment of the act of creation. The creation does not exist apart from the presence of the moving Spirit within her. God never needs to 'enter' the creation; by His Spirit He has been present within her from the very beginning. 

Then God said, 'Let there be light.' The only source for that light is the Spirit Himself. When God appears later on in the Bible, He is surrounded by the glory, which is associated with the Spirit. Indeed, His glory hovers over Israel in the pillar of cloud and fire. Thus, the initial light came from the Spirit. Light is energy, fire; so no fire is brought into the earth from heaven. Fire transforms things, and so begins the transfiguration of the earth, from glory to glory. 

Creation in Six Days: A Defense of the Traditional Reading of Genesis One, p175-76

Basic Trinitarianism

For the Christian, the Trinity is a basic truth - one of the first truths that we learn, even if we do not learn it as a theological statement. How is that so? Like Christians since the age of the apostles, we begin our Christian walk confessing that Jesus - and He alone - can save us from our sins: 'There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved' (Acts 4:12). At the same time, since the earliest days of the Church, it has been clearly understood that only God can save. Two propositions : Jesus is my Saviour and Only God can save. The inescapable conclusion was reflected in the faith of the first Christians: Jesus is Lord (1 Cor.12:3). 

Ch 1 in Trinity and Reality: An Introduction to the Christian Faith, p1

Love stoops

For this purpose, then, the incorporeal and incorruptible and immaterial Word of God entered our world. In one sense, indeed, He was not far from it before, for no part of creation had ever been without Him Who, while ever abiding in union with the Father, yet fills all things that are. But now He entered the world in a new way, stooping to our level in His love and Self-revealing to us. He saw the reasonable race, the race of men that, like Himself, expressed the Father's Mind, wasting out of existence, and death reigning over all in corruption. He saw that corruption held us all the closer, because it was the penalty for the Transgression; He saw, too, how unthinkable it would be for the law to be repealed before it was fulfilled. He saw how unseemly it was that the very things of which He Himself was the Artificer should be disappearing. He saw how the surpassing wickedness of men was mounting up against them; He saw also their universal liability to death. All this He saw and, pitying our race, moved with compassion for our limitation, unable to endure that death should have the mastery, rather than that His creatures should perish and the work of His Father for us men come to nought, He took to Himself a body, a human body even as our own. (On the Incarnation 1.8, p33-34)

problems and perfection