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1 | TRINITY | Bible general Archive 1 | kalos | 543 | ||
Basically the Trinity is one What (God) and three Who's (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). Can the Trinity be explained? Not by me. I never try to explain that which cannot be explained. However, I'll do my best to simplify the definition of the doctrine. I make no attempt to explain the Trinity, only to define it. "V. THE TRINITY . . . "A. Definition. There is only one God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three eternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence. . . . "Proof. 1. O.T. intimations. The O.T. does not reveal the Trinity but it allows for the later revelation of it." See Gen. 1:1, 26; Isa. 6:8; Gen 22:11, 15-16. . . . "2. N.T. confirmation. In the N.T. there is clear revelation that Father, Son, and Spirit are God; thus a Triunity or Trinity (neither is a biblical word)." See John 6:27; Eph 4:6; Heb 1:8; Acts 5:3-4. These Scriptures indicate that the Father is God, Jesus Christ is God, and the Spirit is God. One God -- three persons. "The three Persons are associated equally and as one (Matt 28:19; "name"; 2 Cor 13:14)." (All quotes are from The Ryrie Study Bible, p. 1936, Moody Press) |
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2 | TRINITY | Bible general Archive 1 | Elijah | 4302 | ||
God the father is the only true God there is (1 Corinthians 8:6), Jesus being in the image of God and having the authority of God is allowed to be God in only a sense. The Bible explains this very well in the first part of John. In John 1:1 it states, "In the beginning was the Word," okay lets start there, we all agree that the Word is Jesus, so, Jesus was there in the beginning, but the beginning of what? In genesis it states the GOD created the Heavens and the earth, so the beginning is the beginning of the heavens and the earth. But the word also states that Jesus is the Firstborn of ALL creation in Col. 1:15, well if he is the firstborn, firstborn means that Jesus was the First to be created, the only true one to be actually created by God Himself. So thus he can't be God, because we all know that God is not created. Continuing on, "And the Word was with God," Now just a minute, if Jesus is God, then how can He be with himself, the answer is he can't. People who believe in the Trinity believe that God is three in one, each person of the trinity being equal to each other in all aspects, but in John 14:28, Jesus himself says that the Father is greater than He is, so thus by Jesus' own words, he himself makes the trinity out to be a lie. Now in John 17:11 and 22 Jesus prays to God that we may be one as there are one, and in John 10:30 it states that Jesus and God are one, but what does this truly mean, does it mean that we can be part of the trinity, well no of course not, it means that Jesus is not God, and we are not God, but are one with God, one in unity with God, in other words we strive to do the will of God, and that is the same for Jesus, HE strives to do the will of God too, and in doing so Him and us are one with God in that we are all striving for the very same thing. We are all in unity with God. Going on, "And the word was God." Well here's where it has caused all the problem to begin with. It says that "the Word was God", well it says it that way, because like I said in the beginning, Jesus is only GOD in a sense, He is not God, but has ALL the AUTHORITY to ACT as God, just like a father and son here on earth, A son can ACT with all authority of the father because the father has told him and taught him what to do, so in a sense the son is the father, but the father is not the son. Hence this is the way it is with Jesus and the Heavenly Father. Therefore, finally, to answer the question, We've never seen God, flesh or otherwise, but have seen God's only begotten son, who came in the flesh, being the visible image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15) so we have seen God only in a sense of the word, we have seen everything we can of God, nature, the burning bush, his son, each other (we to are created in the image of God), without actually seeing God himself. So as Romans 1:20 says, we have absolutely no excuse for not knowing who the TRUE GOD IS, So I ask you who should one believe, God’s own son, the only true teacher, or the men who came up with the Trinity doctrine | ||||||
3 | TRINITY | Bible general Archive 1 | kalos | 4306 | ||
I ask you whom we should believe: 2000 years of the historic Christian faith backed up by the Word of God in PLAIN English or the unsubstantiated opinions of one who is so secretive about his identity that "no personal profile [is] on record" with the Forum? Or whom should we believe: God's own son Jesus Christ who is the second person of the Trinity or the Jehovah's Witnesses, the men who came up with the anti-Trinity doctrine? As for me and my house, we will follow what it says in 2 Tim 2:23 ASV 1901: "But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes." |
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4 | TRINITY | Bible general Archive 1 | Elijah | 4454 | ||
There was about 2000 years between Adam and Noah man had gone so fare from what was right that the world was almost destroyed, God said it would the same in are day, can you afford not to test what the worlds teaching, or are you so sure that the worlds teaching right that you don’t care | ||||||