Bible Question: is the trinity in the bible? also where in the bible that says that God the father came down to earth and was incarnated as Jesus Christ. please explain how God the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit is one God. |
Bible Answer: This is about as plain as I can explain it and a person needs to understand what the Bible means by “one”. Try to visualize if you can the following in order to recognize the meaning of the “oneness” of God. Some of the more biblically recognized characteristic of God are as follows; God is, Sovereignty, Righteousness, Justice, Love, Eternal Life, Omniscience, Omnipresence, Omnipotence, Immutability and Veracity; this list isn’t complete but it pretty well explains what God is like in essence. In this sense the Bible tells us that God is one. There is no one else in existence, other then God, that has ”all of these special” characteristics; we can say therefore, that “in essence”, God is one, there is no other like God. i.e. God is the only one that exist that has these essence, if anyone could display these particular essence, they would in fact be God, plain pure and maybe not so simple but true. The Bible points out that there are actually three “distinct” and “separate personalities” in existence, and “each personality” exhibits “all” of these essences or characteristic, as God. The Bible describes them as, first person or The Father, the second person or The Son, and third person or The Holy Spirit. So God is only One in essence, but Three in Personalities. All three personalities have the exact same attributes, being God and all are equal as one, yet the personalities function differently but for the self same exact and perfect results. The word for God in the Hebrew, “elohiym” is a plural word; He is not a God, but “the” God, the one and only. Here is a good example of different personalities in the God Head. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Did you catch the Us and Our, used twice in that verse? Here is a unique instance where all three different personalities of God are observed and all at the same time. The following verse exhibits all three members of the God head functioning together to accomplish God’s fantastic plan for man’s salvation Matthew 3:16-17 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. [17] And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." Illustration: God knew in eternity pasts that man would sin, so God, in His Omniscience, His perfect knowledge, devised a perfect plan whereby He as God could maintain His perfect Righteousness, yet satisfy His perfect absolute Justice. The Righteousness and Justice of God combine to make up what is referred to, or known as the Holiness of God. What the Righteousness of God demands the justice of God “must” execute; God must punish sin, but God being a “Loving God” doesn’t want to be separated form man for eternity; which would be the result of man paying for his own sinful debt, since God tells us that we all have sinned. Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; The wages for sin is death; not physical death but spiritual death, or separation from God forever. God can have absolutely nothing to do with sin, i.e. He can’t just excuse sin, it must be dealt with and disposed of for justice to have been served. God, in His Genius, devised a perfect plan whereby sin could be dealt with once and for all, yet God could maintain His Perfect Holiness and man could have a life that lasts forever with God throughout eternity future. God decided in His perfect love in eternity past that He Himself would pay the “awesome price” that He demanded for sin but the problem was, God, as God can’t die, because He is Eternal and He can’t be separated from Himself. But by one of the members becoming a Man he could accomplish the task. One of the members of the Trinity, the one we refer to as the Second Person, would become a man so that God the Father could take out His wrath for sin on the Man that God provide, or the appointed one, the Messiah, God one and only unique Son. In essence God said I will become a man and pay the ultimate price that I demand. |
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