♔♕♚ God is the Triune God ♔♕♚ The Christian doctrine of the Trinity teaches the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead. The doctrine, one of the most important in the Christian faith, states that God is the Triune God, existing as three persons, or in the Greek hypostases, but as one being. Saying that God exists as three persons but is one God means that God the Son and God the Holy Spirit exactly duplicate the nature or being of God the Father in every way. Whatever attributes or power God the Father has, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit have as well. Thus, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are also eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely loving, omniscient. ♚ The New Testament does not use the word Trinity, nor explicitly teach it, but provides the material upon which the doctrine of the Trinity is based. It required reflection by the earliest Christians on the earthly ministry of Jesus and of what they believed to be the presence and power of God among them, which they called the Holy Spirit; and it associated the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in such passages as the Great Commission .. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ♔♕♚ The Gospel of John opens by declaring, as usually translated .. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. The rest of John 1 makes it clear that the Word refers to Jesus Christ. Thus John introduces a seemingly impossible contradiction, that Jesus both was with God and was God at the same time, and that was true from the beginning of creation. John also portrays Jesus Christ as the creator of the universe, such that without him nothing was made that has been made. .. John 1:3. Some render John 1:1 as the Word was a god, the word was godlike, the word was divine, and deny that the doctrine of the Trinity is supported by Scripture either at this point or elsewhere. These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you .. John 14:25-26 In this passage, Jesus portrays the Father sending the Holy Spirit—that is the Father and the Holy Spirit are two distinctly different persons, and portrays both the Father and the Holy Spirit as distinct from Jesus himself. Thus even apart from whether Jesus was God, Jesus declares that the Father and the Holy Spirit are two different persons, both of them divine. In the same way, the Old Testament frequently refers to the Spirit of God as something slightly different from God himself.. The doctrine of the Trinity, that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are each equally and eternally the one true God, is admittedly difficult to comprehend, and yet is the very foundation of Christian truth. Although skeptics may ridicule it as a mathematical impossibility, it is nevertheless a basic doctrine of Scripture as well as profoundly realistic in both universal experience and in the scientific understanding of the cosmos. Both Old and New Testaments teach the Unity and the Trinity of the Godhead. The idea that there is only one God, who created all things, is repeatedly emphasized in such Scriptures as Isaiah 45:18: “For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; … I am the Lord; and there is none else.” A New Testament example is James 2:19: “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well; the devils also believe, and tremble.” The three persons of the Godhead are, at the same time, noted in such Scriptures as Isaiah 48:16: “I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time that it was, there am I; and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.” He said ... I am the Way, the Truth and the Life and no one gets to my father, but through His Son, Yeshua HaMashiach, Christ Jesus ... The New Testament doctrine of the Trinity is evident in such a verse as John 15:26, where the Lord... Jesus said .. But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father, He shall testify of me. Then there is the baptismal formula: baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ..Matthew 28:19 ... One name .. God ... yet three names ... JESUS ... That Jesus, as the only-begotten Son of God, actually claimed to be God, equal with the Father, is c......lear from numerous Scriptures. For example, He said: I am Alpha and Omega, the begin...ning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty” ... Revelation 1:8. HOLY SPIRIT ... Some cults falsely teach that the Holy Spirit is an impersonal divine influence of some kind, but the Bible teaches that He is a real person, just as are the Father and the Son. Jesus said ... Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will show you things to come ... John 16:13. TRI-UNITY .... The teaching of the Bible concerning the Trinity might be summarized thus. God is a Tri-unity, with each Person of the Godhead equally and fully and eternally God. Each is necessary, and each is distinct, and yet all are one. The three Persons appear in a logical, causal order. The Father is the unseen, omnipresent Source of all being, revealed in and by the Son, experienced in and by the Holy Spirit. The Son proceeds from the Father, and the Spirit from the Son. With reference to Gods creation, the Father is the Thought behind it, the Son is the Word calling it forth, and the Spirit is the Deed making it a reality. We “see” God and His great salvation in the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, then “experience” their reality by faith, through the indwelling presence of His Holy Spirit. Though these relationships seem paradoxical, and to some completely impossible, they are profoundly realistic, and their truth is ingrained deep in mans nature. Thus, men have always sensed first the truth that God must be “out there,” everywhere present and the First Cause of all things, but they have corrupted this intuitive knowledge of the Father into pantheism and ultimately into naturalism. Similarly, men have always felt the need to “see” God in terms of their own experience and understanding, but this knowledge that God must reveal Himself has been distorted into polytheism and idolatry. Men have thus continually erected “models” of God, sometimes in the form of graven images, sometimes even in the form of philosophical systems purporting to represent ultimate reality. Finally, men have always known that they should be able to have communion with their Creator and to experience His presence “within.” But this deep intuition of the Holy Spirit has been corrupted into various forms of false mysticism and fanaticism, and even into spiritism and demonism. Thus, the truth of Gods tri-unity is ingrained in mans very nature, but he has often distorted it and substituted a false god in its place. Shalom Aleichem, and remember this Scripture .. The apostle Paul said ...And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up; if in fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable ... 1 Corinthians 15:14-19 .... And this is the testimony .. that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life ... 1 John 5:11-12 He is the Way, the Truth & the Life ✞ ✶ ღ...ೋೋ۩۩ೋ
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