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I chose St. Symeon, a theologian and saint very dear and important to my Orthodox

tradition, in order to give you some more similarities. This is what he says: “For those who

have been weaned, He (Christ) plays the role of a loving Father who watches over His

children’s growth and development” (Theological Ethical Orations 4. 269-270).

Also, the critique may refer to one particular message in the beginning when the Lord wanted

to teach me of the unity of the Holy Trinity. The message that might be questioned was:

“I

am the Father and the Son. Now do you understand? I am One, I am All in One”

(02.03.1987)

. Here, our Lord wanted me to understand the perfect and ontological unity of

the Most Holy Trinity; how the three divine Persons are undivided and so completely one in

nature. Like St. Symeon said in his Hymn 45. 7-21: “Three in one and one in three… How

could I have known, Lord, that I had such a God, Master and Protector, Father, Brother and

King…?” Gradually any non-official terminology was being crystallized with time so if anyone

might have had any confusion it became clearer later on.

Remember how pope Benedict XIV long ago took note of questionable passages in the

writings of the Fathers of the church and the saints, and direct that:

…what these have said should be taken, as far as possible, in a good sense… obscure

points in one text are to be explained otherwise by clearer texts… seek the mind of the

writer, not from a particular phrase, but from the whole context of the work;

benevolence should be joined to severity; judgment about views one does not agree

with should be made, not on the basis of one's views but according to the probability

of the doctrine (Constitution of introduction of the Index).

In one of the earliest messages, I tell how Jesus asked me to “design how the Holy Trinity is”.

I describe having a vision of light. Then one light coming out, then another one, making

three. Then I commented: “When the Son is in the Father, then they are one. The Holy

Trinity is ONE and the same. They can be 3, but all 3 can be one. Result, One God.” This

statement employs, I learnt, a metaphor that goes back to the Nicene Creed which declares

that the Son came forth from the Father as “light from light”. This image has since become

classic in Christian thought. For example Symeon the Theologian, writes of “the One who

was in the beginning, before all ages, begotten of the Father, and with the Spirit, God and

Word, triple in unity, but one light in the Three” (Hymn 12, 14-18).

Sometimes God the Father speaks and it is obvious to any reader who knows the Scriptures

that it is indeed the Father who speaks since He would mention words like, “My Son Jesus”

etc. Then, it could happen later in the same day that Christ calls me to continue the message

and speaks. Again, the reader who knows Scriptures would understand that it is Christ

speaking because He would speak of His Wounds or Cross. As for the messages that would

start e.g. with the Father, then later on continue with the Son, it would usually contain a

reference saying, “later on”. If I did not put any reference to help the one who reads it was

because it appeared to me so obvious from the words uttered who was actually speaking that

I left them as they were. From the thousands of readers I never received a letter from anyone

who asked for clarification on the subject and no-one came to tell me they were confused.

Only two clergy in the United States read the message in the wrong way, publishing their

views in newsletters over and over again, without ever meeting me.

In one passage in the True Life in God writings, Christ says: “I am the Trinity”. Here Christ

identifies Himself with the divine nature of the Trinity that is One. Christ is one of the

Trinity. Christ speaks as the divinity, since it is one in nature, communicated by each of the

three persons.