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James Torrance (1923-2003) explores the relationship between Father and Son, observing that mutual love reaches out through the Spirit to draw us into their shared communion (Matthew 11:27; John 1:18, 17:25-26; Galatians 4:5; and Hebrews 2:10).
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At the centre of the New Testament stands, not our religious experience, but a unique relationship between Jesus and the Father. No one knows the Son except the Father and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him (Matt. 11.27; John 1.18, 17.25-26). This unique relationship is vividly described as one of mutual love, mutual self-giving, mutual testifying, mutual glorifying. Indeed, there is a oneness of mind between the Father and the Son, revealed supremely in the Cross, ‘to bring many sons to glory’ (Heb. 2.10), ‘that we might receive the adoption of sons’ (Gal. 4.5ff)—that we might be drawn by the Spirit into that unique life of shared communion.
—James F. Torrance, “The Doctrine of the Trinity in Our Contemporary Situation,” in The Forgotten Trinity, 10-11
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Matthew 11:27; John 1:18, 17:25-26; Galatians 4:5; Hebrews 2:10
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