{"id":449,"date":"2018-03-17T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/delisahargrove\/?p=449"},"modified":"2018-03-17T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T07:42:09","slug":"three-triangle-two-brothers-james-and-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/delisahargrove\/2018\/03\/three-triangle-two-brothers-james-and-john\/","title":{"rendered":"3-A Triangle and Two Brothers, James and John"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

During a three day training I attended, the number three shouted at me from every concept and nearly every page\u2014restrictions lasting 3 years, 30-year commitments, 3 contract segments. One mnemonic device provided was \u201cThree 3s and a B-I-N.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been thinking about triangles over the past few weeks, and three\u2019s ubiquitousness reminded me to revisit a train of thought.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll was divided into three.\u201d ~Homer<\/p>\n

\u201cA whole is that which has a beginning, middle and end.\u201d-Aristotle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Three, to me, represents wholeness, completion, wisdom, thoroughness, the transformation of duality to completeness, a presidency.<\/p>\n

A triangle then is an approximation of an ideal.<\/p>\n

Starting with the triangle as the unit of all subjective operations our conception of it is based upon our knowledge of the objective unit: we proceed from a knowledge of the part to a concept of the whole \u2014 or unknown unit. To do this we transmute the objective to the subjective and raise the power of the numeral to infinity.<\/p>\n

When thus raised to the power of the infinite unit the triangle is our symbol for truth. As a symbol for the whole of truth, it holds the key to all science, to all wisdom, and its study leads with certain steps to and through that door wherein the mystery of life ceases to be a problem, and becomes revelation.<\/p>\n

An understanding of the triangle depends upon the analysis of the objective unit, the arithmetic definition of which is \u201ca single thing.\u201d The first idea we get from this single thing is wholeness; nothing can be added to it nor subtracted from it without impairing its unity as a single thing. Second: Its unity involves the idea that it can be separated, that it consists of parts. Third: These parts hold certain unchanging relationship to each other, then as related to its wholeness it has unity, as related to its separableness it has diversity, and as related to its unchangeableness it has identity; unity, diversity and identity, are the essential qualities of every \u201csingle thing,\u201d or every unit, and the equilateral triangle is the symbol that manifests these three qualities in unity. ~Lydia Bell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

James and John<\/h3>\n

When I try to understand things, I doodle them out.\u00a0 I drew a triangle and thought of applicable gospel topics.\u00a0 I added Peter, James, and John to the points of a triangle.<\/p>\n

\"Triangle<\/p>\n

I felt led to look up meanings of names, though familiar with them.<\/p>\n

I started with John. It\u2019s Ioannes in Greek. John means \u201cJehovah is gracious\u201d or \u201cThe Lord has been gracious.\u201d John is my dad\u2019s first name, but it\u2019s become even more significant to me because of its place in the endowment.<\/p>\n

In Greek, James is\u00a0Iak\u00f3bos, Jacob. Jacob means \u201csupplanter, to supersede another especially by force or treachery, to eradicate and supply a substitute, especially by reason of superior excellence or power.\u00a0 Put out of a usual or proper place of another.\u00a0 Implies a filling of a place once occupied, lost, destroyed, or no longer usable or adequate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following Jacob through to its root word aqeb, I discovered the name\u2019s root is heel or foot. \u201cHeel,\u201d of course, brought to mind God\u2019s cursing of Satan in the Garden of Eden\u2014\u201dAnd I will put\u00a0enmity\u00a0between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;\u00a0it\u00a0shall\u00a0bruise\u00a0thy head, and thou shalt\u00a0bruise\u00a0his heel<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This jives with the story of Patriarch Jacob who was born immediately after Esau, holding his brother\u2019s heel.\u00a0Though I love the name Jacob, I\u2019ve always wondered why Isaac would name his son \u201csupplanter.\u201d\u00a0 It seemed so weird to me and had a negative connotation because I generally think of Satan as a supplanter.<\/p>\n

But two very preeminent leaders carry the name. Why? For the first time, I saw the name as indicative of one who would bruise the serpent\u2019s head with his heel and supply a substitute by reason of superior power to fill a place lost, destroyed, or no longer usable.<\/p>\n

The meanings of James and John, in parallel lists next to each other, shocked me. One one triangle tip, I had \u201csupplanter, heel.\u201d\u00a0 On the other triangle tip, I had \u201cJehovah is gracious.\u201d<\/p>\n

On one hand, I saw the Lord\u2019s grace juxtaposed a malevolent supplanter. Opposition. The gospel story in a sentence.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I saw the Lord\u2019s grace added to the substitution of one by another with greater power. Atonement. The gospel story in a sentence.<\/p>\n

And then I believed a triangle was the teacher of wholeness and truth. In a moment of greater clarity, doctrinal truth became more cohesive and complete.<\/p>\n

Again from Lydia Bell, \u201cThe first idea we get from this single thing is wholeness; nothing can be added to it nor subtracted from it without impairing its unity as a single thing. Second: Its unity involves the idea that it can be separated, that it consists of parts. Third: These parts hold certain unchanging relationship to each other\u2026.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wholeness, unity, unchanging relationship to each other.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

The second half of this train of thought brings Peter into the mix in the post 3-Peter, James, and John as a Triangle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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