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1 | TRINITY | Bible general Archive 1 | PYLE | 539 | ||
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHERE THE WORD TRINITY IS FOUND IN THE SCRIPTURES? ALSO, CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THE TRINITY IN SIMPLE TERMS SO THAT IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE TO THE AVERAGE PERSON. | ||||||
2 | TRINITY | Bible general Archive 1 | GeneralWAS | 14474 | ||
The Creation of Man - A Picture of God (Part 2 of 2) Here is the rest of the article, which includes the part on the Trinity. The Creation of Man - A Picture of God (continued) Throughout the centuries, man has struggled with the concept of the Trinity, looking for analogies which comes close to doing it justice. Most fall woefully short. Perhaps we should look to God himself and his creation of man for the best analogy. Our study of the creation account tells us that God created man as body, soul, and spirit. Yet when we think of one another, we tend to merge these three together as we describe who someone is. So while we may separate man into these components, we naturally never lose sight of the fact that all of them make up the man. So it is with God. While we may separate God into Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we ought never lose sight of the truth that all three, in perfect harmony and unity, make up one and only one God. The theological debate over whether man is made up of two parts (dichotomy - flesh and soul/spirit) or three parts (trichotomy - flesh, soul and spirit) is beyond the scope of this article. In fact, a careful biblical study may lead us to conclude that it may well be beyond the scope of that which God wants us to devote much attention to. The Christian life is one of balance. This applies to all areas, including our theology. For instance, to focus on the biblical truth of the sovereignty of God, at the expense of the responsibility of man, will lead to an extreme, and unbiblical, theology. In like fashion, to focus on the parts of man at the expense of the unity of man may lead to an equally exaggerated and unbiblical doctrine of man. The same is true of God. To focus undue attention on one person of the Godhead over the others or of the unity of the three as one, has lead to all sorts of false theology throughout church history. While God commands us to study to be found "handling accurately the word of truth" (2 Tim 2:15), he does so after just warning us not to "wrangle about words, which is useless, and leads to the ruin of the hearers." The goal of study is to know God through Christ. This is eternal life (John 17:3), and eternal life is God's greatest desire for us. We must be careful to pursue that desire for which we were created. In so doing, God will be glorified, and the lavishing of glory on Himself is the ultimate purpose of everything which God created and made. |
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3 | GeneralWas and Bill Mc? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 14479 | ||
Greetings GeneralWas, This is a very interesting post, but I can't help but notice the uncanny similarities between this paper and a website referred to in a previous thread (composition of man) by Bill Mc. Is there any reason for such extreme similarity, or is this purely coincidence? |
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4 | GeneralWas and Bill Mc? | Bible general Archive 1 | Bill Mc | 14608 | ||
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