“The Trinity of God”

The Trinity of God is one of the most profound doctrinal things to understand, because it involves one God with three distinctions. In other words God is one single inseparable being but He has three separate persons figuratively. While we attempt often to separate The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit we simply cannot because when we speak of God they are one of the same. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary set forth the doctrine of the Trinity as follows: "God is revealed to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being." Now let us look at our Saviour Jesus Christ; He was the Son of God but He was also the Son of man, one single man with two distinct natures. Most people will disagree that in the last hour of the crucifixion that there was a temporal separation of the two natures because there must have been because deity cannot die and the Son of man did. There is no difference between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit so if one were to die then all three would have died because God is one single being. Revelation 4:9 "And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever," Jesus Christ the Son of man sits on the right hand of God. (We will cover the issue with the Son of man and the Son of God later but soon.) John 1:1 - 2 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2.) The same was in the beginning with God." And we learn in verse 14 of John 1 “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…” that is the Son of God because the Son of man had a beginning. The Son of God is God period, not a part of God but God. Jesus Christ was not incarnate with the entire Son of God because the Son is God and cannot be contained in one single body. One author put it this way; “When we speak of the distinctions of the Godhead as persons, we must understand that we use the term figuratively. There are not three persons in the Godhead in the same sense that three human beings or persons. In the case of three human beings there is division of nature, essence, and being; but it is not so with God. Such a conception of God is forbidden by the teaching of the Scripture as to the unity of God.” Peter concluded this point also in 1 Peter 1:2 "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." The scriptures concludes many times over that God is our Saviour "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;" 1 Timothy 2:3 because God is our Saviour that is the entire Godhead. It is true that the man Christ Jesus died on the cross and it is true that He sits at the right hand of God in heaven but salvation must have included - el-o-heem – which is Hebrew for the Trinity of God. Salvation was planned and elected by God the Father and accepted as a “just redemption or a just payment” The Son was incarnate in the Son of man and was with Him until just before death where he paid the price for our sins, and the Holy Spirit pricks or convicts our hearts that salvation is needed and brings us to acceptance of Jesus Christ. With this all being said it equals God is our Saviour. Now with this being said none of this is to lessen the being of Jesus Christ who is the Son of God and sits on Gods right hand. As I said before all of this will be explained in deeper details in weeks to come.

Matthew concluded in the Great Commission "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" Matthew 28:19 because there is no separation and there are not three separate beings but one Being and one single God. Now if confusion has set in your not alone because it is a subject of confusion.