Question 3: How many people are there in God?
There are three people in the one living and true God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; are identical in substance, equal in power and glory.
- May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
- The love of God.
- And the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
- Amen.
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RICHARD BAXTER
It is necessary that we believe in the great mystery of the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, being one God, not only in terms of eternal and unsinkable non-existence, but above all for the knowledge of the three great species of God’s works on man: he is, like our Creator and God of nature; as our Redeemer and God of grace who governs and reconciles; and as our sanctifier, applicator and enhancer of everything, to make us fit for glory?God is an infinite and indivisible Spirit; However, he is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, should we believe Him?Can we prove that the Holy Ghost is God? We must be baptized in his faith as Father and Son, and in all that he does, he does God’s good works and has God’s attributes in the scriptures.
KEVIN DEYOUNG
The doctrine of the Trinity is the most important Christian doctrine that most people have considered. This is absolutely essential to our faith, but for many Christians it sounds like a confusing mathematical problem. While we can understand what the Godhead is, it does not seem to have much influence in our lives, nor does it have relevance to us.
The word Trinity, as it is called, is not found in the Bible, but it contains many biblical truths very well; In fact, there are seven statements that make up the doctrine of the Godhead:
If you understand these statements, have you been able to understand the doctrine of the Godhead?Which means when we say there is a God among three people.
Christians are monotheists. We do not believe in many gods or a pantheon of gods, but in one God, and that God expresses himself and exists in three people. This language of people is very important. The early Church struggled to use appropriate language, and the term people adequately expresses the personality of the three members of the Godhead, as well as their relationships with each other. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, together, are inherent in an essence, although there are some distinctions. One is not the other, but they are equal in position, equal in power, equal in glory and equal in majesty. Just as Jesus sent the disciples to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we see this doctrine of the Holy Trinity intertwined throughout Scripture.
The question “Why is this important?” It’s even more confusing for people. “All right, I understand we have three in one, one in three. But what is the difference in my Christian life? In a very Trinitarian way, I think there are two important things that this doctrine means to us.
First, the Godhead helps us understand how there can be unity in diversity. This is one of the most urgent issues in our world. Some people focus almost exclusively on diversity, on the fact that people are quite different. common ground. Others want to impose a complete uniformity of thought, government and expression. The Trinity shows us that we can have a deep, real and organic unity in diversity, so that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit may work in complete union in our salvation. The Father means. The Son succeeds. The Spirit applies, we find God fully in the Father, in the Son, and in the Holy Spirit, but his divine work is neither interchangeable nor redundant.
Second, when you have a Trinitarian God, you have the eternity of love. Love has always existed. If there were a God who was not three persons, he would have to create a being to love, who would be the expression of his love, but the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, who exist in eternity, have always had this loving relationship. Therefore, love is not something created. God did not have to let himself be loved, love is eternal. When you have a Trinitarian God, you have this God who is love.
Finally, and above all, the doctrine of the Trinity is crucial for the Christian because there is nothing more important in the world than knowing God, if God exists as God in three persons, if the only divine essence exists as Father, Son and Holy. Spirit, if we are baptized under this Trinitarian name, no Christian wants to ignore this Trinitarian reality. Finally, the Trinity is important because God is of the utmost importance.
Father, Son and Spirit, you are beyond our comprehension, we are grateful to take us to your love, a love that existed before the world in your three perfect people. Amen.
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