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Oct 12, 2023 · Roles of the Holy Trinity. According to the scriptures, all three members of the Trinity are fully God: God the Father —Jesus Christ referred to His Father as God (John 6:27). God the Son — John 1:1 identifies Jesus as divine. While Christ never specifically called Himself "God," His Father did apply the title to Him (Heb. 1:8).
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Many people have never heard of the unity of God, let alone studied God’s unity. Even so, it is one of the most important attributes of God. In truth, much of the error in modern theology comes from an abuse of God’s unity. So, what does the unity of God mean? God is not separated into different parts. Even though it is good and right to discuss th...
As finite men and women seek to understand an infinite God we often seek to compartmentalize God to make theology more approachable. We take various attributes and focus in on them as if we were looking into a microscope. This isn’t necessarily wrong. However, many fail to back up and look at the bigger picture. Failing to keep each attribute in th...
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). He is unchanging(click the link to read our article on this topic). God is constant and unified in all He has done, is doing, and will do. There has never been a time where God has compromised one attribute in lieu of another and there never will be. Because God is constant and unchangin...
What does the unified church believe? There are a lot of different denominations, groups, and cults that all claim to be “Christian.” All of these differing groups have different belief statements that make them distinct. However, there is a core set of beliefs that make a group Christian or not. Within this core is a belief that Jesus is the Son o...
Jul 2, 2019 · God the Holy Spirit was active in creation, “brooding over the face of the waters” (Gen. 1:2; see also Psalms 33:6 and 139:7). In the work of redemption and salvation, the three persons have different roles or functions. God the Father planned the redemption and sent God the Son into the world to carry out the plan of redemption.
Oct 22, 2024 · The doctrine of the Trinity is considered to be one of the central Christian affirmations about God. It is rooted in the fact that God came to meet Christians in a threefold figure: (1) as Creator, Lord of the history of salvation, Father, and Judge, as revealed in the Old Testament; (2) as the Lord who, in the incarnated figure of Jesus Christ ...
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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 ...
Oct 7, 2014 · It should be noted that the word Trinity is never given in the Bible; it was originally used by the church father Tertullian (ad 155–220).” 1 “The word trinity means ‘tri-unity’ or ‘three-in-oneness.’. It is used to summarize the teaching of Scripture that God is three persons yet one God.” 2 Essentially, the doctrine of the ...
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Sometimes the Trinity doctrine is expounded by theologians as meaning just this, the creedal formulas being interpreted as asserting that God (non-contingently) acts as Creator, Redeemer, and Comforter, or describing “God as transcendent abyss, God as particular yet unbounded intelligence, and God as the immanent creative energy of being… three distinct ways of being God”, with the named ...
