Subject: Need to understand the Trinity... |
Bible Note: Ok, I was talking about the concept. What I meant is this. When we deal with the Trinity of the Godhead, we have to understand that we talk about the nature of God and not His three persons in one only. The point is this. Ice is another of seeing water in solid form. Vapor and liquid are other forms of the same subject, that is water. In other words, God is a person revealed in three persons that have the same nature. In the trinity, we mean that The Father, Son and Spirit have the same nature, that is DIVINE. They are three, in there revelatory way, but one in nature. We talk always of God as a unique God as the faith of Israel was. And they were right to believe this because they believed according the revelation they received from above. But the concept of being three persons is everywhere in the Bible. Just for example, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Gen. 1.1). The word God is Elohim in Hebrew which means God in the plural form. Once again, we can see it in the New Testament, when Jesus commanded to make of all nations disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Have you ever noticed that the word "name" in that verse was in the singular form? Yet, grammaticaly speaking, even in greek, the word would have been in plural, but the fact is that Matthew understood the concept of the oneness of God in three persons. Is it clearer now? |