TRINITY, Confused? You won’t be until you read this!
We all know that the word Trinity is not found anywhere in the Bible. It was Tertullian who coined the word in the last decade of the second century and became a church creed only in the forth century. It is the distinctive and comprehensive of Christian faith. It makes three affirmations:
1. that there is but one God,
2. that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are each God, and
3. that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are each a distinct Person.
If we just look at these three simple statements which formed the Trinity principle by our early church fathers Terullian, Athanasius and Augustine, we would certainly have questions in our mind. How the first statement of only one God can become three different Gods in second statement and each is a distinct Person in the third statement? This has indeed created an old centuries question if God one or three or three in one? There are numeral Biblical facts to substantiate each school of thought and I list a few below for a quick glance.
One God
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God
Exodus
Zch 14:9 King over all the earth, Lord Almighty..
Lk. 2:11 Christ the Lord
Acts 10:36 Lord of all
1 Tim 6:15 Blessed and only One
Jude 25 Only God our Savior
Three Gods
Genesis 18:1-2 The Lord appeared to Abraham at he lookup and saw three men.
Genesis
Psalms 96:1-2 Sing to the Lord, Sing to the Lord, Sing to the Lord
Isaiah 6:3 They were calling out to each other: Holy, Holy, Holy!
Matthew
2 Corinthians 2
Rev. 15:3 Lord, God the Almighty
Trinity
Genesis 1:-3 God (Elohim God in plural) in his Word and His Spirit created ..
Genesis
Pr. 8:22; Jb. 28:23-27 God’s activities associated with the Word "Wisdom"
Isaiah 63:8-10 We have the three speakers, the covenant God(v.8), the Angel of the presence (v. 9) and Spirit grieved (v. 10)
John 14:6 Jesus told him, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life..(Three in one Jesus)
1 Cor. 12:4-6 Mention of the gifts of the Spirit, the varieties of service for the same Lord and the inspiration of same God.
1 Pet. 1:1-2 Peter traces salvation to the same triunal source of Father, Son and Spirit.
Questions as we may have, but who dare to ask this sensitive issue of Trinity. It is a church doctrine and you may be condemned as being a heretic. So we all take it as a Truth and do Bible ixegesis (read into the Bible)instead of exegesis (searching the truth from the bible)in Biblical hermeneutics to rationalize our belief. Or to put it in plain wordings of expounding the Bible to support our wrong traditional church teaching.
The problem is it did not, does not and will not work. Hence we have the article with the topic like this come up all the time. What goes wrong? It really went back to the 4th century when the term was first put in used. This dogma, like many dozen others un-understandable theology such as Calvin’s predestination vs. Armenian’s freedom of choice should never came up in the first place. We can spend another few centuries time and write plenty more articles to jam up Helium with no conclusion.
The solution is we have to accept the fact that we are human and God is God. We can not understand God all. He is Ubiquitous, Omnipotent, and Omnipresence; Past, Present and Eternal; and Alpha and Omega. No one one earth will be able to explain Trinity. This is God in another dimension we can not apprehend now. But Revelation says we will utter not a single word when we meet Him face to face in Heaven for we will understand all. Meantime we just keep our burning faith in Him Christ Jesus.
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