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NASB | John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 1:1 In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. [Gen 1:1; Is 9:6] |
Subject: Please explain the Trinity |
Bible Note: I would mainly confirm what Beja says. I would add that we must remember that when speaking of God we have to do so in human terms, the only terms we understand. But God is not in any way human apart from the Son coming in the flesh. God is Spirit. and we do not understand spirit apart from what we can gather from our own meagre experience, which we can only define in terms of activity. Thus we can never hope to understand God, except in terms of His activity. Jesus spoke of Himself as the Son. What He was signifying by this was that He was of the same nature as the Father. But His Sonship was otherwise far different from ours. HE was not born. He always existed. Thus we must accept what it conveys about Him having the nature of God, but not press it too far. He was not a son in the same way as we are sons of our fathers, being born later than them and succeeding when they die. Compare how Jesus is called the heir of all things. But it does not mean that the Father will either die or retire. Again it is signifying one aspect of the word, that one day all would again be His. So all expressions about the Son have to be used guardedly, asking what do they teach, and where do they come short. When speaking of God human terms must not be strictly applied from all angles. Thus the oneness of Father, Son and Spirit is not simply a numerical oneness, it is a oneness of compound being. Within His oneness is a threeness in which each member intercommunicates, and yet to see one is to see all (John 14.7-9). They are not strictly three persons, for persons are individuals. Again the danger of a human terminology. They are inter-personal and intercommunicating in the One Being, and where one acts, all act. |
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