Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Trinity

     We believe that God is the Creator and King of the universe. Three distinct persons make up the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Although the word Trinity, which Christians use to describe this three-person God, is not in the Bible, the fact that God indeed consists of three persons is clearly taught there.
     The three persons of the Godhead share certain common characteristics that set them apart from all other beings in the universe. God is immortal, all-powerful, all-knowing, unchangeable, and able to be everywhere at once. He is the source of all love, life, and power. And though He constantly supervises His entire vast creation, He is a personal God who wants to be the close Friend of each person on earth.
     Perfect unity exists in the Trinity. Theirs goals, plans, and opinions are identical. They never disagree. Their very thoughts are open to each other. Though the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate persons, they think, act, and feel as one. They actually are one God in three persons.
     Perfect equality also exists in the trinity. All three of its members are fully God. No one member is less divine than the others. The Father did not create the Son or the Holy Spirit---all three have existed together from eternity and have no beginning. The Holy Spirit is not simply God's power---a divine force. He is a fully equal member of the Godhead.
     God is infinitely patient, fair, and truthful. But the quality with which His name is most synonymous is love.


  • Deut. 6:4, Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
  • Gen. 1:26; 3:22,   26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  3:22;   22And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
  • Matt. 3:16, 17,  16And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:  17And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
  • Matt. 28:19,  19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
  • John 14:16, 17,  16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;   17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
  • 2Cor. 13:14,  14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
  • 1 Tim. 6:15, 16,  15Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;  16Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
  • Psa. 139:7-12, 7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
  •  9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
  • 10Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
  • 11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
  • 1 John 3:20,  20For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 
  • Jer. 32:17,  17Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: 
  • Mal. 3:6,   6For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 
  • John 1:1-3,  1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
  • 2The same was in the beginning with God.
  • 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

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