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The Bible
Last week we talked about the Bible as God’s Word and as such it bears ultimate authority over all that we believe and all that we do.
We believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God.
By it, God reveals who He is, who we are, and what life is meant to be.
His word is complete and supremely authoritative in all matters.
It is the Holy Spirit that enables a human mind to understand its truths.
For the next two weeks we are going to talk about what we believe about God based on what we learn from the Bible.
Having already established that it is our authority we will accept what it teaches and do our best to fully grasp the truth.
Our statement on God.
We believe God is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit who are One essence existing eternally in loving relationship with one another.
He is perfect, infinite, eternal, and unchanging.
He is all-powerful, all-knowing, always present, self-sufficient, and sovereign.
He is righteous, holy, just, loving, gracious, merciful, and true.
What we believe about God, Part 1.
We believe God is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit who are One essence existing eternally in loving relationship with one another.
Today we are going to think like the early church.
We are going to look at the scriptures and what they teach and determine why the church holds to this belief that God is one being whose subsistence is three distinct persons.
So, like the early church let’s begin where they would have.
From the Old Testament we learn that:
God is One
The Father is God
So the Father is God . . .
so what is Jesus?
The Son is God
So the Son is God . . .
where does the Spirit fit in?
The Spirit is God
So the first dilemma we have is to understand how this can be.
How do seemingly contradictory statements stand?
This diagram can help us have a visual of what we are talking about.
This is what the Bible teaches.
In this teaching is clear truth that is shrouded in mystery.
C.S. Lewis explained it this way.
One Dimension
Two Dimensions
Three Dimensions
The Mystery of the Trinity is that God who is an infinite being can exist in a way that is beyond our comprehension.
Human Errors
Tri-theism:
There are three God’s.
This is often expressed in this way.
Just as we are all human but different people, The Father, The Son, and The Spirit are all God (a type of being) but completely distinct from each other having their own individual essence.
Attributes are not shared through oneness but are the same because they are the same type of being.
Modalism:
There is one God who shows himself in different modes.
They are made of the same essence but revealed in a hierarchical order of expression.
Arianism:
Jesus is not God.
He was begotten of the Father, so He was created and therefore not equal with God the Father in his essence.
Christ is therefore not eternal.
Misunderstanding Jesus:
Begotten: Announced and Fulfilled
First-born: Position
Only-begotten: Uniqueness
Why is the Trinity important for us to understand and believe in?
It is what the scriptures teach.
God has revealed who He is.
We don’t have to guess about God.
We worship God and honor him.
So we recognize the oneness of God, the unity of God, the three persons of God.
We don’t try to fit it into a neat category that our human minds can comprehend.
When Jesus claims to be one with the Father, when John writes that the Word is God, we are being taught a mystery that we believe by faith.
Not blind faith, but faith none-the-less.
It is what Jesus taught.
It is the root of our humanity.
Created in God’s image
We are created with the need for a capacity for relationships.
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