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when chaos reigned

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Really, today is Holy Saturday, when theologically, on that day after Good Friday two thousand years ago, the Universe was i n chaos because God was dead, we had killed Him. The 9/11 image flashes that stunning shocker more vividly than anything I've personally experienced in life. In trinitarian theological thinking there is One God, Three in One and One in Three, three Persons, one God; and it's all or none, therefore if one Person of the Trinity does not exist (has died, been killed), there is no Trinity and no God. I'm not sure our theological discourse binds God, but theologically on that first Holy Saturday the Universe was on its own. Then early Sunday morning, while it was yet dark, the Father stepped into Jesus' tomb, said, "Get up, Son," and they went home to color Easter eggs. That's the delightful way author and priest Martin Bell put it in one of his writings.  Theologically, then, at that Sunday morning Resurrection moment, the Trinity would ...