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The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Classical trinitarianism holds that every action of Trinity in the world is inseparable. That is, the divine persons are equally active in every operation. But then, in what way did the Father create the world through Christ? How can only the Son be incarnate, die, and be resurrected? Why does Christ have to ascend before the Spirit may come? These and many other questions pose serious objections...

as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—only in the covenant of grace. This is his way of solving the immutability puzzle. But at what cost? There are two related critical issues here. First, if God truly gives himself to the experience of death, in virtue of what is death overcome? McCormack somewhat negligently applies the inseparability doctrine to say that if one does it, they all do it. Thus, if one dies, they all do. But that seems to imply that God truly submitted himself to a mortal risk. Unless
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