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Mar 6, 2024 · “When you go back into your Bible, you will discover that the Trinity is at work: God the Father initiating, God the Son complying, and God the Spirit executing. Think about it in relationship to salvation: God the Father plans it, God the Son procures it, and God the Spirit applies it to our lives.
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- 1 Corinthians 8:6. 6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Read Chapter All Versions.
- 2 Corinthians 13:14. 14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Read Chapter All Versions.
- Colossians 2:9. 9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, Read Chapter All Versions.
Oct 12, 2023 · While there's only one God, the Godhead consists of three distinct persons - the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All are equally omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, eternal, and unchanging, but each has unique functions.
- What Does It Mean That God Is A Trinity?
- Is The Trinity Contradictory?
- Essence and Person
- Trinitarian illustrations?
- Summary
- Application
The doctrine of the Trinity means that there is one God who eternally exists as three distinct Persons — the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Stated differently, God is one in essence and three in person. These definitions express three crucial truths: (1) The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct Persons, (2) each Person is fully God, (3) there i...
This leads us to investigate more closely a very helpful definition of the Trinity which I mentioned earlier: God is one in essence, but three in Person. This formulation can show us why there are not three Gods, and why the Trinity is not a contradiction. In order for something to be contradictory, it must violate the law of noncontradiction. This...
Essence
What does essence mean? As I said earlier, it means the same thing as being. God’s essence is His being. To be even more precise, essence is what you are. At the risk of sounding too physical, essence can be understood as the “stuff ” that you “consist of.” Of course we are speaking by analogy here, for we cannot understand this in a physical way about God. “God is spirit” (John 4:24). Further, we clearly should not think of God as “consisting of ” anything other than divinity. The “substance...
Person
In regards to the Trinity, we use the term “Person” differently than we generally use it in everyday life. Therefore, it is often difficult to have a concrete definition of Person as we use it in regards to the Trinity. What we do not mean by Person is an “independent individual” in the sense that both I and another human are separate, independent individuals who can exist apart from one another. What we do mean by Person is something that regards himself as “I” and others as “You.” So the Fa...
There are many illustrations which have been offered to help us understand the Trinity. While there are some illustrations which are helpful, we should recognize that no illustration is perfect. Unfortunately, there are many illustrations which are not simply imperfect, but in error. One illustration to beware of is the one which says, “I am one pe...
Let us quickly review what we have seen. 1. The Trinity is not belief in three gods.There is only one God, and we must never stray from this. 2. This one God exists as three Persons. 3. The three Persons are not each part of God, but are each fully God and equally God.Within God’s one undivided being there is an unfolding into three interpersonal r...
The Trinity is first of all important because God is important. To understand more fully what God is like is a way of honoring God. Further, we should allow the fact that God is triune to deepen our worship. We exist to worship God. And God seeks people to worship Him in “spirit and truth” (John 4:24). Therefore, we must always endeavor to deepen o...
Jan 4, 2022 · Without delving too deeply into the doctrine of the Trinity, we need to understand that the Father is not the same Person as the Son, the Son is not the same Person as the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is not the same Person as the Father. They are not three Gods.
Mar 5, 2024 · God the Son is eternally begotten by God the Father and is sent from Him alone (John 17) while God the Spirit proceeds from God the Father through the Son (John 15:26). As the functional head of the Trinity, God the Father can be understood as the author of all acts of God.
Jan 4, 2022 · The Holy Spirit is unique and is not the Father or the Son (He proceeds from the Father and the Son, John 15:26). The Father and the Son are also unique (when Jesus prayed to the Father, He was not praying to Himself, Luke 23:34). Each is God, but each is a separate “Person.”
