The Trinity

Trinitinarianism is the doctrine of the union of three divine personalities, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God in one essence and three co-equal and co-eternal personalities, and, at the same time, three personalities sharing one essence, whose features includes:

 

1) Sovereign: God has supreme volition and absolute authority. (Deut. 4:39; 1 Sam. 2:6-7; 1 Cr. 29:11; 2 Cr. 19:7; Rom 3:25-26; Rom. 2:11)

 

2) Righteous: Absolute correctness. (Ps. 145:17; 2 Cor. 5:21; Rom 3:22; Isaiah 64:6 (God rejects the righteousness of man) Deut. 32:4; Job 37:23)

 

3) Just: God is never unfair. He has standards, and discipline and the law of volitional responsibility must condemn variations of those standards. Adherence to God’s standards is blessed. God is just to give eternal condemnation to unbelievers who die in their unbelief, for it is they that rejects all that God has done through the work of Christ, and it is they who bring about their own eternal suffering.

 

4) God is love: Love motivates Grace. God has unconditional love for all mankind; therefore the gift of salvation is available to ALL who will receive it through faith alone in Christ alone. God also has personal love for all believers in Christ, for He recognizes His own imputed righteousness in them. (John 3:16; 1 John 4:19; John 5:23; Rom. 8:37-39)

 

5) God is eternal: In Exodus 3:13-14, Moses is on the mountain of Horeb and encounters God through the theophany of the burning bush. God is sending Moses to the pharaoh of Egypt to demand freedom for the Jews enslaved in Egypt. Moses is worried that the Jews will not believe him if he tells them that he has received instructions from God, that they may wonder which god Moses is talking about. Moses asks, “Who should I tell them you are?” God answers, in the Hebrew;

“Iyah Sher Iyah”

Among the most effective translations of this phrase are “I’m the being on, I am He who Is”, “I am He who will be”, “I am as I was and will be”, “ I shall be who shall be”, “I am He who exists”. Passages relating to the eternal nature of Jesus can be found in Rev. 1:8; John 8:53-58; Mark 14:61.

 

6) Omniscience: from the prefix omni meaning “all” and science meaning “knowledge”. (Deut. 29:29; 1 Cr. 28:9; Ps. 139:1-6; Isaiah 46:10)

 

7) Omnipotence: (All+ powerful) (2 Pet. 2:9; (talks of miracles which is God overriding His natural laws) Rom. 1:16; Joshua 10:12; 2 Kings 20)

 Omnipresence: (Being all places at all times)(Ps. 138:7-10; Proverbs 15:5; Heb 4:13)

 

9) Immutability: God never changes. (Heb 13:8; Num. 3:19; 1 kings 8:56; Heb. 1:12

 

10) Veracity: Absolute truth. God cannot lie. (Ps. 33:4; Ps. 119:142; John 17:17; John 1:1-4)

 

God as one: one God in essence. God is the creator of all that exists. In Genesis 1:1, we find the Hebrew word Elohim for the English word God. The im is plural. Elohim is a plural word. In Genesis 1:26, “Then God (Elohim) said: Let us make man in our image and our likeness.”

 

When Elohim created the earth, God the Father authored the plan (Book of Job), God the Son accomplished the creation (john 1:1-3; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2), and God the Holy Spirit restored creation (Gen. 1:2).

 

The word Jehovah is singular, and refers to one of the personalities of the Godhead. Context determines which personality of the Godhead is being addressed.

 

If you find LORD in capital letters, it is a translation of the word Jehovah and is referencing one of the trinity, and the context will tell which member it is. However, if you find Lord with just a capital “L” the word is translated from the Hebrew Adanoi and usually refers to the pre-incarnate Jesus. In all of the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, any time God is seen by any living human at anytime, then it is Jesus in a theophany (pre-incarnate), Jesus in the incarnation, or Jesus in a Christophany (post resurrection and ascension) God the Father is said by Timothy never to have been seen by human eyes, and therefore is spirit, and the Holy Spirit is Spirit as well. Therefore, Jesus Christ is the only one of the trinity to be seen by mankind at any time.

 

It is said that, to those who do not have access to the Word of God, God is gracious to inspire the revelation of Himself through observable creation.(Rom.1 nature reveals God.) For instance, consider mathematics:

 

1+1+1=3 and 1x1x1=1

 

3 in 1, 1 in 3.

 

Or, consider the universe. The universe is made up of time, space, and energy, 3 in 1.

 

Time has 3 tenses, past (like the Holy Spirit, who draws on the past to teach), present ( like Jesus Christ who is revealed), and future (like God the Father who is not seen but revealed by the Son) ( 1 John 4:12; John 14:9)

 

Space is length, width, and depth. Length is invisible without width, and neither is real without depth. I have paper (length) and can write on it (width) but can’t lift the word off the page without depth. Therefore, I have God the Father (length) who is, revealed by God the Son (width) and explained by God the Holy Spirit (depth).

 

Consider light. Light in the Bible usually refers to God/ good/ the plan or the word of God. (1 John 1:5) Darkness usually refers to evil/Satan or his minions.

 

Light is made up of ultra violet light, short waves, not seen nor felt. (God the Father)

 

Then, there is visible light, which is both seen and felt. (God the Son)

Then, the long waves of light constitute infrared light, which is not seen but felt. (God the Holy Spirit)

 

Finally, consider the egg. The egg looks like one, but it has a yolk, white, and shell, 3 in 1.

 

Sin is the deviation from God’s standards. God’s righteousness has justice curse sin, but His righteousness also has justice bless those who follow His mandates. This not only applies to a personal level with the individual, but also to national entities as well. Lev. 26:3 discusses blessing on the national level, while Lev. 26:14 discusses cursing on the national level.

 

God’s infinite wisdom and His mandates are communicated to finite human minds using terms that communicate God’s attributes. These terms are called anthromorphisims. Thus we have phrases like “God repented that He had made man” in Genesis 6. In fact, God isn’t sorry, there is no emotion involved in the ways of God, however, this phrase was used to convey the change that God had made, a next step of the plan to take care of the exigencies created by the sins of man and the sins of the demon population that procreated with human women producing the half angel/ half human population called the nephelim that was wiped out in the flood of Noah.

 

In the Garden of Eden, Adam sinned. Therefore, He lost fellowship with God, and God, being all knowing, knew that Adam would sin and therefore would need a plan for salvation. In eternity past, God the Father authored the plan of salvation, God the Son volunteered to carry out the plan, and God the Holy Spirit volunteered to explain the plan to humans presented with the Gospel.

 

God the Son is the mediator. A mediator is one who is equal to both parties in a dispute. (1 Tim 2:5)

 

Jesus Christ entered into the incarnation in hypostatic union. This means that, in the person of Christ, there is two inseparably united elements of His personality without mixture or loss of the separate attributes of humanity and deity. Since Jesus submitted Himself willingly to the plan of God the Father, He is therefore called the “Son” of God. (Phil. 2:6-11)

 

 

Notes On The Gospel Of Jesus Christ

 

1. Jesus has been, continues to be, and forever shall be 1/3 of the triune essence of the Godhead whose introduction in human history as human life was prophesied in the Old Testament. He was the agent of creation of the angelic community as well as the Universal creation.

 

2. His humanity was born of a virgin in the town of Bethlehem, conceived by the Holy Spirit so as not to have within Him Adam’s original sin imputed to His DNA.

 

3. Thus, He was both undiminished deity and perfect humanity.

 

4. He was the first human born with the imputation of the Holy Spirit, and thus attained spiritual maturity at age 12.

 

5. His lineage can be traced back through His mother and His adopted human father to King David, and thus was human royalty.

 

6. At the age of thirty, Jesus Christ assumed His Jewish priesthood and started His public ministry.

 

7. He lived life perfectly sinless, even though He was confronted by extraordinary testing by various human agents and even Lucifer himself.

 

8. Even though sinless; Jesus was tried and sentenced to death by the Roman high court at the behest of the Jewish leaders of the day.

 

9. He was cruelly tortured and then crucified, where God judicially imputed the sins of all mankind. Jesus willingly accepted this imputation to bring about reconciliation between humanity and God. Therefore, all sin has been judged in Him.

 

10. After proclaiming Tetalesti, “it is finished”, he dismissed His spirit and died on the cross.

 

11. He was placed in a tomb, and while his body lay in state, his soul went to the paradise compartment of Hades to bring all of the Old Testament believers to Heaven and to proclaim victory to all of the denizens of the Tarterous compartment.

 

12. He then rose again on the third day after His crucifixion.

 

13. For the next 40 days, he continued His ministry on earth, having been seen and heard by all of the remaining disciples and others.

 

14. After approx. 40 days, He ascended to Heaven where He sits at the right hand of God the Father, as our source of salvation, our activist, and our intercessor in prayer, among other duties.

 

15. Belief in Jesus Christ alone is the only way to eternal salvation. If you now, or have ever believed these things to be true, then you are saved in Jesus Christ, and eternally secure.

 

The Holy Spirit is the teacher. He explains the plan of God to all and teaches doctrine to the believer. (John 14:26)

 

Like God the Father and God the Son, God the Holy Spirit has the same attributes shared by the other members of the Godhead. He is:

 

Sovereign: (Matt. 28:8; Heb. 2:8; Luke 1:35)

Love: (John 13:34; John 15:9; Rom 15:30 Gal. 5:22)

Omniscient: (Matt 9:4; John 2:24-25; John 10:15; John 21:17; Acts 6:10; 1 Cor. 1:16-17)

Eternal Life: (John 1:1; John 8:58; Col. 1:16-17; 1 John 5:11-13; Heb. 9:14)

Omnipotent: (Matt. 24:30; Heb. 1:23)

Omnipresent:(Matt 18:20; John 14:23)

Immutability: Heb. 1:12; Eph. 4:30)

Veracity: (John 1:14,17; Eph. 4:21; Rev. 3:7)

Righteousness: (2 Cor. 13:14; Rom 14:17; Isaiah 4:4)