Chapter 3. Creation through speech and reality as linguistic. From "The Speaking Trinity & His Worded World: Why Language is at the Center of Everything" by Pierce Taylor Hibbs

Chapter 3 of the book “The Speaking Trinity and the World Spoken by God” is devoted to explaining the process of creation through speech and the existing reality as a linguistic phenomenon. The starting point is the statement that creation took place through the communion behavior inherent in God. This statement is explained on the basis of two ideas: 1) the whole creation is marked by God’s communion behavior and thus expresses something about a personal, self-communicating God; and 2) since creation was accomplished by God’s communion behavior, and since God is triune, the reality can also be endowed with a trinitarian structure. The whole discussion is presented in three sections: “The Trinity and Creation”, “Reality as a Communicative Phenomenon” and “Perception of the Trinitarian Structure of Reality”. As a result of consistent reasoning and examples, conclusions are drawn that all reality is communicative, because it speaks of God’s glory; reality has a “trinitarian structure”, which is related to our perception of this reality (using the perspectives of particles, waves and fields) and the very nature of the reality (in which everything contains elements of contrast, variation and distribution); so that both for man as image bearing creature, and for reality itself, the communion behavior of the Trinity has a profound effect. All reality is marked by the Trinity once and for ever. Christians who are born of the Spirit and adopted new life are empowered by the Spirit to see the Trinity everywhere.