Title: Triune God
Content br> We do not find a direct word for "the Trinity" in the Bible. For this reason, some heretics deny the Trinity of God. Therefore, they claim that only “Jehovah” is God, and they do not acknowledge that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are God. Both Jesus and the Holy Spirit claim to be the creation of God.
Some even advocate tritheism. In other words, there are three Gods: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. However, this claim is contrary to the truth that the Bible teaches that there is only one God because it makes the God of the Bible multiple gods.
Some people think of God the Father ⅓, God the Son ⅓, and God the Holy Spirit ⅓, and explain the Trinity as God who becomes one by adding these three. This is an extremely dangerous idea. Because according to this idea, when God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit see each other independently, they end up being two-thirds less inferior. This idea is a very bizarre theory that the union of the three gods is insufficient to make one perfect god.
Some people advocate so-called modalism in explaining the Triune God. For example, a man becomes a husband to his wife, a father to a son, a teacher to his disciples, and his status changes depending on the case, and God is called God the Father in some cases and God the Father in others In this case, as God the Son, and in some cases as God the Holy Spirit, his status changes and is called differently according to his activity and object.
This argument is so persuasive that many have understood the Triune God in this way. However, modalism falls into the error of not being able to explain the many words about the Triune God recorded in the Bible.
For example, they cannot explain what happened when Jesus was baptized and came up from the water. Because when Jesus was baptized and came up from the water, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit appeared individually. Soon, God the Son was baptized into a physical body. God the Father spoke with his voice. This is because God the Holy Spirit descended like a dove and came upon God the Son, Jesus.
The main text of this case is:
“As soon as Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him, and a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:3). 16-17)
In this case, God clearly showed that He existed differently. According to modalism, it is an event that cannot be explained at all. There are many other Bibles that cannot be explained by modalism. For example, the words of John 14:16 are the same.
“I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you forever” (John 14:16).
The person speaking in this verse is God the Son in the flesh. Jesus said that he would ask the Father, and the Father is the independent God the Father. He also said that he will give you another Counselor, the Counselor is God the Holy Spirit.
The same is true of John 14:26.
“The Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and will remind you of all that I have said to you” (John 14:26).
Also in this verse, the Counselor, God the Holy Spirit, the Father who will send the Comforter, God the Father, and Jesus who is giving these words, God the Son, are distinct and appear independently. If one God becomes the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in some cases and the Trinity is called differently according to the object of the call, then it will fall into an absurd error in the interpretation of the Bible.
In Matthew 4:1, God the Holy Spirit and God the Son are distinctly revealed from each other.
“At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Matthew 4:1)
In the Great Commission given by God the Son to the disciples, God the Father, the Son, and God the Holy Spirit appear individually.
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19)
We need to figure out what "Trinity" means here.
"The Trinity" is the character of God and means God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Looking at this alone, you might think that there are three Gods, that is, there are three Gods. But the Bible has revealed that there is only one God. That's what "all" is. Therefore, the God of the Bible is the God of the Trinity. Even if there is no direct word for “the Trinity” in the Bible, if we summarize the Bible’s teachings about God, we can only express God as “the Trinity”.
The term "The Trinity" is the only and best word that summarizes the essence of God in one word. This is because the Bible reveals the Father as God, the Son as God, and the Holy Spirit as God, and at the same time reveals that God is not three but one.
Let us think more about the Trinity of God.
First, we must acknowledge that God is “Trinity.”
Because the Bible says that God is "three persons".
"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness," said God, "and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth" (Genesis 1:26): "We "
“Behold, this man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, saith the LORD God, lest he stretch out his hand, and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” (Genesis 3:22): one of us
“Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand one another” (Genesis 11:7): We
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19)
“The Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and will remind you of all that I have said to you” (John 14:26).
“He will testify of me when the Counselor I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father” (John 15:26).
“When I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, the door was opened to me in the Lord” (2 Corinthians 2:12).
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2 Corinthians 13:13).
"To those who, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Holy Spirit, to obtain obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you many more" (1 Peter 1:2).
Also, because God is love. If God is not Trinity but One, then he is not love. Because eternal primacy is eternal loneliness. There is nothing but an eternal monologue in eternal work. What love is there in the eternal monologue? Love must have an object of love. The object of God must be identical with God in character, attributes, and qualities. But God is love. Because He is the Trinity.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God. For God is love. This is how the love of God was revealed to us. “He sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Here is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us and sent his Son as the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4: 7-10)
In Jesus' prayer: John 17;5,7,810,11,21,24,26
Second, we must acknowledge that we are “one.”
In understanding the truth that the Triune God is one, we become infinitely aware of our own shortcomings. However, man cannot fully comprehend that the Triune God is one. Because God is the Creator and man is a creature. No matter how sophisticated a man-made computer may be, it is equivalent to being unable to fully understand the man who created it. However, we can give some thought to the understanding of the unity of the Triune God.
There are several orders of composition in the world.
The first is the synthesis of solids. For example, one stone plus one stone, and one stone plus one stone is a combination of three stones. These are obviously three stones, not one.
The second is the synthesis of liquids. One cup of water plus one cup of water, and one cup of water is added to make one cup of water. In this synthesis, all the added waters were combined to become one, but the amount was increased by that amount. But one cup is one cup. Not three cups.
The third is the synthesis of personality. One heart plus one heart, and one heart plus one heart. In this synthesis, the quantity of minds becomes one mind, immeasurably. The Bible says that husband and wife are one flesh. This third composition is mysterious.
The fourth is the synthesis of God. This is the equation of one God the Father + one God the Son + one God the Holy Spirit = one God the Trinity.
Let's take a look at what the Bible says about the oneness of the Triune God.
God the Father Himself has spoken.
"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness," said God, "and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over all that creeps on the earth" (Genesis 1:26).
"Jehovah God