[0:00]Watch this. The rule that everyone must memorize is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are equal in everything, in everything, except for something called the hypostatic property.
[0:11]That is, the Father is almighty, and the Son is almighty, and the Holy Spirit is almighty, and each of the three is almighty.
[0:19]The Father is the creator, and the Son is the creator, and the Holy Spirit is the creator, and the three are one creator.
[0:25]The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, and the Holy Spirit is eternal.
[0:29]These are called the divine attributes in the divine essence. This is what is meant by equality, the sign of equality.
[0:37]But the Father alone is the source, that's why he is called Father, and the Son alone is begotten, that's why he is called Son, and the Holy Spirit alone proceeds, that's why he is called Spirit, not called Son, nor called Father.
[0:50]These three hypostatic attributes distinguish the Father from the Son and from the Holy Spirit, but not in their essence.
[0:58]Their essence is one. What expresses the equality of essence are the essential attributes: the creator, the almighty, the one who has no beginning,
[1:07]the merciful judge, the just, so all the attributes. But when it comes to this hypostatic attribute, it belongs only to the Father, that he alone is the source.
[1:18]So if you say the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, then the Son becomes a source. That would mean we have two gods.
[1:25]But we have one God in one, and He is the source. That's why in the church we say it with absolute clarity:
[1:31]There is one Holy Father, there is one Holy Son, there is one Holy Spirit, one Father, not two Fathers, just one.
[1:40]One Son called the only begotten Son, born of the Father before all ages. Born of Him like light from light, like thought from the mind, without separation,
[1:51]without being two separate entities from each other. Born of him like a ray that comes out from the sun, like the thought that comes forth from my mind.
[2:00]It does not depart from the mind.
