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1 | The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost. | Bible general Archive 1 | Camallio | 76785 | ||
I am confused concerning the trinity.... The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost. .. Are they one in the same and were do I find this in the Bible....Thank you | ||||||
2 | The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost. | Bible general Archive 1 | meusing | 76786 | ||
Jesus taught us about God the Father. Jesus is God with us, Immanuel. who has all the attributes of deity see Phil. 2:6. The Holy Spirit is God, as lying to the Holy Spirit is lying to God, Acts 5:3. Our bodies are the temple of God the Holy Spirit, 1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not discern and understand that you [the whole church at Corinth] are God's temple (His sanctuary), and that God's Spirit has His permanent dwelling in you [to be at home in you, collectively as a church and also individually]? 1 Cor 6:19 Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, |
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3 | The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost. | Bible general Archive 1 | 2 Ti 2:15 | 76802 | ||
Remember God is a Spirit, and the bible says no man hath seen him at any time. He is omnipresent meaning he is everywhere at once he is even in the future and the past at the same time. (Awesome thought!) So how can we interact with a spirit or see a spirit? God would have to manifest or show himself. Read Isaiah you will find scripture after scripture that there is only ONE God. There isn't any beside him, no one before him, and NO ONE AFTER him. So we conclude one God. 1 Ti. 3:16 Without controversy (or without a question of a doubt) great is the mystery of godliness, God was MANIFEST (made to see plainly) in the flesh (or the form of man) justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles(No one until Jesus ever preached to gentiles) believed on in the world, and received up into glory. (who was believed on and received up into glory? Jesus!) So we find a man, that was actually God manifested to us in the form of a human. God manifest in the flesh. Granted it's hard to comprehend how a all powerful God could limit himself in the confines of man. Yet he did. Phil. 2:6 Says Jesus being in the FORM of (an invisible spirit) God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. How because he was God in the flesh. Read Jn. 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God and the Word WAS GOD. The word being everything God is. Read on Down this word (13) And the word was made flesh (in the form of man. The invisible God was made in the form of a man) and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Begotten actually came from 3 Greeks words which mean 1)soley by oneself 2)to come into existence 3) to be like... So Jesus was the only one to ever be created who we could behold that was like God he alone is the only one like God that has come into existence or was created. God has always been. Does this mean he is seperate from God and they both are two? No, remember in Isaiah God said no one would be after him. He wouldn't allow anyone to receive his glory. However he allowed Jesus because through Jesus the manifest form of God, God is glorified. 1 Co. 4:4 says Jesus is the image of God, He. 1:3 says he is the brightness of his glory and his express image of his person. Jesus is the form of God in man. A picture if you will of God. IF you see a picture of yourself it's you but it's not all of you. Jesus was a glimpse of who God was but not the complete form of God as he was merely a man. God is so much bigger than a man so much more to him, just as there is so much more to you than a mere picture. However being in the form of God he thought it not reobbery to be equal with God. Jn. 10:30-33 Jesus said "I and my Father are one." this took the Jews back so much they picked up rocks to stone him, for blasphemy. verse 33 says that Jesus blasphemed by making himself God being in the form of man. Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his own life.... 1Jn. 3:16 "Hereby perceive we (in this we can catch a glimpse) of God (note it doesn't say Jesus) hereby perceive we the Love of God, because HE (not Jesus) laid down his own life for us... 2 Cor. 5:19 "To wit, (or to think) God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself..." Jesus was simply God. Remember God is so much bigger than we can comprehend. He can manifest himself in 10 different spots as 10 different forms and that doesn't seperate him or make more than one God. It is just how God sees to show himself to us if you will. The Holy Spirit is just that "THE" Holy Spirit. God is a Spirit, ane he alone is holy. The Holy Spirit has always been so it brings me back to Isaiah, if there were no God's beside him where would the Holy spirit have been. It was just another name for God. Names in the OT usually held a specific characteristic or meaning. If still unclear ask again or if wanting more scriptures just ask... |
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4 | The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost. | Bible general Archive 1 | meusing | 76808 | ||
Jesus, god with us, spoke of His Father as God, and spokeof the Holy Spirit as a separate person from Himself. the statement "Jesus was a glimpse of who God was but not the complete form of God as he was merely a man." directly denys the fact that Phil 2:6 Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, Phil 2:7 But stripped Himself [of all privileges and rightful dignity], so as to assume the guise of a servant (slave), in that He became like men and was born a human being. that is BEING one with God. He always was and was not created because He ceated everything that is. Jesus is the Creator, not the created. He is God (John 1:1) |
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5 | The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost. | Bible general Archive 1 | 2 Ti 2:15 | 76820 | ||
Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. Isa 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. God himself made the earth... I am not attacking what you are saying because I believe we are on the same page. Jesus did create the worlds because he is God, manifest in the flesh. God is a spirit though, he is so much bigger than Jesus "the man" was. Note what was prayed in Jn. 17:5-6 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: Here Jesus says glorify me with the glory which I had with the before the world was. So he had come down out of that "glory" status. Phil. 2:6 says he was in the FORM of God, NOT that he was God as God is a Spirit. Jesus was equal with God because he was God (IN THE FORM OF A HUMAN) No where will you find that he calls himself God. He eludes to it everywhere and those with the revelation understood that he was. Because he was God in the form of a man it wasn't wrong for him to be equal with God because he was God, everything that he could be "manifest in flesh." Until Jesus was glorified, he was unable to have omnipresence and the attributes of God the spirit. Although he was everything God could be wrapped up in the form of a man. He was completely God in that sense, finding himself in the Form of God, (again not God directly as God is a spirit and that was the very thing in Jn. 10:33 that appauled the Jews the most that a man would say he was God) Jesus has always been because Jesus is God. I am saying Jesus the man or body, flesh was created. 1 Pe. 1:20 says... "Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you..." The body was formed or manifest. The man was created. But the divinity, God that was in that man (2 co. 5:19) has always been. Col. 2:9 says that the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily. Jn. 14:26 Says the Holy Ghost will be sent in His name Jn. 5:43 Jesus said he is come in his fathers name Jn. 17:6 Jesus said he had manifest or shown plainly the name of the father 1 Co. 8:4 says there is none other God but one I believe God has always been and he manifest himself as man in order to save us. In the Old testament it testifies that God alone is our saviour in the NT is states Jesus alone is our Savior, They are the same. Not only in purpose but the same. God laid down his own life 1 Jn. 3:16. TRINITY is a word man has made up in a poor effort to describe the Godhead. Ultimatly the Godhead was in Jesus and the 3 are one. Jesus has all power and it is through him and his propitiation we will be saved. God bless you |
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6 | The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost. | Bible general Archive 1 | meusing | 76837 | ||
Last thing first. the word "Trinity" just says what is plainly taught in the Scriptures, that the Father is God, that Jesus is God and that the Holy Spirit is God, and that these three are one. It is interesting that you first agree with me and ssay that Jesus is God, and then in the very next sentence you say that "God is so much bigger than Jesus". If Jesus is God then he is not bigger than Himself. Please take a look at what Phil 2:6 reals says 'that BEING (existing in present tense) in the form (MORPH means having the essential attributes as shown in the form)" shows tht Jesus is God. not that He is "NOT God" as you said wich contridicted your earlier statement. He was God before He became human and He still is God. You are confusing Him with the Father. He came to proclaim the Father as God, just as the Holy Spirit proclaims Him as God. So it is "According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. " (1 Peter 1:2 DRB) so that But every one in his own order: the firstfruits, Christ: then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming. Afterwards the end: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father: when he shall have brought to nought all principality and power and virtue. (1 Corinthians 15:23-24 DRB) |
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7 | The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost. | Bible general Archive 1 | 2 Ti 2:15 | 76841 | ||
The word trinity, which isn't even in the bible and doesn't really matter what it means, actually originally meant there were 3 separate entities. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. These 3 were coequal in power and unified in purpose. Which is not what you are saying. Over time this word has lost some meaning and many people and church use it. It has really two meanings now. That which you state and the older original meaning. Again it doesn't matter what the word means as it's not even in the Bible. You say the Father God couldn't be greater than Jesus the man... JN. 14:28 "Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I." I believe that Jesus was the "form" of God but since God in his fulness and is a spirit he has no form right? He took on a form, which was Jesus and though he was merely a man it allowed God to receive glory through this form. In truth God had no form as he is a spirit. in your statement ...He was God before He became human and He still is God. (here you are saying that Jesus is God, which I agree) You are confusing Him with the Father. (How can you confuse him with the Father when they are both the same... God) He came to proclaim the Father as God, just as the Holy Spirit proclaims Him as God. .....or are you saying they aren't the same, God. I am saying that God in the form of Jesus, was limited while he walked the earth by the weakness of man. Although he was "God" he was also completely a man. God cannot be tempted, yet Jesus was. God cannot hunger, yet Jesus did. God doesn't get weak, yet Jesus did. Does this mean the bible is contradictory? No it just simply means there is a relationship her that is hard to comprehend. Jesus was merely a man who was all that God could show in the flesh. So being everything God was in the form of man, made him the image of who God is. The spirit or sould was without measure in him alone, so God himself lived in this man. It will be in the last day when Jesus finally puts all things under his feet that he will submit unto the Father (which represents God in his fulness) and at that time it will be known that it was God in all. Until that time God has to remain as Jesus the mediator of mankind. But when all is finished that role will no longer be needed so Jesus will be glorified and sit on the throne. Well anyhow, I appreciate your comments, but I feel this conversation isn't going to go anywhere so God bless and may God reveal to both us a clearer revelation of him, his grace, and the word. Casey |
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8 | The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost. | Bible general Archive 1 | meusing | 76848 | ||
Your first paragraph is false, the Trinity has never meant three Gods. the Trinity is one God, three personalities. "3. And the universal [true Christian] faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; 4. Neither confounding the Persons; nor dividing the Substance. 5. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. 6. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the Glory Equal, the Majesty Coeternal. 7. Such as the Father is, such is the Son: and such is the Holy Ghost. 8. The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate: the Holy Ghost uncreate. 9. The Father is incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. 10. The Father is eternal, the Son eternal: and the Holy Ghost eternal. 11. And yet they are not three Eternals: but one Eternal." Please do not put words in my mouth, I was responing to YOUR tatement that 1.Jesus is God, 2. God is bigger that Jesus. if 1 is true that Jesus is not bigger that God, because He Is God. I did not say anything about the Father. John 14:28 is explained in Phil 2:6 that Jesus, being God emptied Himself and to take on the form of a man. you say God has no 'form' when it is shown that 'form' means the essential attributes of His nature do you mean that God has no essential attributes? I am not Confusing Jesus with the Fathere as I am speaking of Jesus. The Fathere is God and Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit is God. Is am saying what Jesus said. He spoke of the Father as God and spoke to Him as a separate person and God the Father replied to Him. Jesus spoke of the Holy Spirit as a separate person. To be tempted and not sin is the whole reason that Jesus, being God, became man, and subjected himself to temptation and the cross. on Earth He was Immanuel God with us, showing us how to submit ourselves to God the Father, with the power of God the Spirit Philippians 2:6-11 DRB Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: (7) But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. (8) He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross. (9) For which cause, God also hath exalted him and hath given him a name which is above all names: (10) That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth: (11) And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father. |
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