Ch. 4: The Two Great Operations Of The Spirit

God the Son is revealed in the Christian Scriptures. God the Spirit is revealed in the Church. The Trinitarian doctrine states that there are three co-eternal, equal persons in God, which is the notion of unity within community. The Trinitarian doctrine was further developed and defined at the councils of Nicaea in 325 CE and Constantinople in 381 CE. God was always trinity, however gradually this reality became known through revelation. Jesus calls God and speaks of the spirit which indicates a plurality in God. The difficulty is reconciling the concept of monotheism with the notion of God existing as three persons. The divine essence is common to all three, however the three persons have attributes or properties which distinguished them eg Fatherhood, sonship and sanctifying power. Once essence means that the actions (creation, redemption, sanctification) are attributable to all. Mutual relations is the concept that the terms Father and Son are not titles but expressions of a relationship and thus all three persons are co-equal

He further clarifies that in Christianity, God is not even a person. Instead, he is a dynamic, pulsating activity — almost a kind of drama. Additionally, he says the Holy Spirit also shares in the same love that exists between God and Jesus; and like them, He is eternal also. The author informs us that we too can share in that eternal love, and we can help others share in it as well. Here, he reminds us that those superior traits, as well as appalling ones that we know, come by a kind of infection — we come in contact with the source of the infection. Therefore, we can take part in the shared love that exists between the three persons by coming in contact with that love. Furthermore, we can expose others to that love, so that they might also become infected. Each of us, then, can become a "little Christ," which is the whole purpose of becoming a

The Father possesses the divine nature un-received while the Son and Holy Spirit possess it as it is received and in totality. They receive everything from the Father; therefore, they are all

The divine persons are truly distinct from one another. The names Father, Son, and Spirit are not simply identical and interchangeable- they represent true distinctions within Gods nature.

According to the Christian worldview, God exists in a unique form known as the Trinity. This defines God as a singular being with three distinct persons: the Father, Son, and Spirit. Each person has a unique role: the Father is the Sovereign Creator (Psalm 103:19, New American Standard Bible); the Son is the Messiah and the firstborn over all creation (Colossians 1:15, NASB); and the Spirit is an Intercessor and Helper (John 14:26, NASB). All three persons comprise the single figure of God. This concept, while complex, is pivotal to the Christian worldview as one begins to analyze the overarching message of the Gospel.

In fact, we are talking about one, is a limited number. Therefore, the three limited figures together, of course, equal to three. However, the Trinity of God is infinite, in mathematics, infinitely infinite infinite infinite is only equal to an infinite. Thus, in man can not the Trinity in God be possible. The Father is infinite, for he is the Creator of all things, and has been called the Lord of the heavens and the earth in the Bible, the Most High God, and the Almighty who is ever, ever present. The Son is infinite, because he is eternal life of God, but to save the world for our human sin was crucified. But he could not have been put to death, so he was resurrected the third day after his death. Not only that, but after forty days, he ascended to heaven, to prepare us for heaven. And when we are ready, we will come again to meet all the people who have believed in him, and then we will be able to enjoy eternal life. The Holy Spirit is also infinite, because he is Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, the heavenly Father sent to the world, instead of the Lord Jesus as the protector of our lives. Therefore, the Holy Spirit is also known as the Counselor. When one truly decides to believe in Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes into us and lives in my heart and becomes a higher standard of conscience. He personally protects us and leads us

It is important to note the defined goals of the Trinity. One being that God sent His Son, Jesus did not send God. Jesus tells us in John 6, that He came to do the will of His Father. Jesus was not doing His own selfish will but everything He did was for His Father. Jesus and God sent the Holy Spirit according to Jesus’ words in John 14:26, “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you”. It is necessary to recognize the distinctions of the roles of the Trinity as if the roles were not distinctive there would be no Trinity.

The Trinity is an area of the Christian faith where Christians and non-Christians alike struggle to explain the Godhead in a way that is biblical and understandable.  In this paper I will discuss whether there is any mention of the the word Trinity in the Bible at all and what does the biblical concept of Trinity mean? I will explain as well how this Triune concept is expressed biblically and what are the similarities / differences between God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit? Finally, I will discuss what it means to be a Trinitarian with a Jehovah’s Witness.

His last two however are not, the fourth just rambles on about how different God is from everything else. Although God may be profoundly different from man, man was derived from God’s essence. Based on this, it seems intuitive to think that man would be able to offer at least broad descriptions of God. The fifth makes a claim that God’s effects are somehow different from all other effects because they emanate from his essence. I probably just don’t fully understand the fifth, but it doesn’t seem clear why his effects emanating from his essence as opposed to “any extraneous thing” prevents man from understanding him through his

He is not half human and half God—He is all human and all God. Neither nature subsumes, dominates, or eliminates the other. The two natures are not mixed up or blended into one; rather they remain separate complete natures within the one person and comprising that one person. The divine nature was not humanized nor the human nature divinized. They became united in one person and are incapable of being separated. The unity of the two is such that acts that are characteristic of one nature are attributed not to that nature alone but to the one person and thus, to both the natures at the same time. Although this concept is difficult (if not impossible) to comprehend, it is to be embraced by

My word study portrays a sermon given on United States Independence Day weekend. The sermon’s topic related to liberty. One of the verses that were abused was the following: “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (2 Corinthians 3:17) The pastor preached on the how this verse parallels the U.S. Constitution and the liberties it prescribed. Moreover, the pastor mixed metaphors from the Bible and the Constitution. The text is taken out of context. Indeed, the text alludes to the letters of the law written in stone versus those written with the Holy Spirit. And, Paul is referring to the superiority of having the Holy Spirit versus just adhering to the law. Thus, Paul explicitly speaks of a spiritual

This theological “treatise” is divided into six main chapters, that each focus on the Trinitarian doctrine. Understanding the doctrine of the Trinity is essential to the Christian faith, which is the central goal of this book. The main focus of this study is to examine the ways in which the three Persons of the Trinity relate to one another, how they relate to us, and what difference this makes to our lives. Dr. Ware accomplishes this through discussing the wonder of each

With this as the basis of his thinking Edwards goes on to describe the Triune God through Augustine’s relations perspective with a little twist. The Father has to lavish His love for it to be perfect and He does this on the Son. So this is easy enough to grasp but then how is love lavished back to the Father? This is where the Spirit comes in. The Spirit is the Love that the Son lavishes back to the Father. So by the end of it there is a complete and perfect picture of love, where love is given and love is also received.

God is good. He is loving, merciful and compassionate. The Bible tells us that God is a living personal Spirit. He is not an impersonal force, but a living being who acts (Psalm 115:3-7). God is personal with his own features. He is Spirit who exists separately from the world and is above and beyond it. God is Trinity; Father, Son and Spirit. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are distinct persons within the Trinity and have distinct purposes, yet they are perfectly united in the being of God.

The Holy Spirit plays a very vital role in the lives of each and every believer; He can strengthen us with a strength that we cannot even begin to muster up in ourselves. He can bring us joy that we cannot even begin to find in the things of this world. He can bring peace to our lives more than anything that we can ever find on this earth. “The Holy Spirit which is primarily an energizing process, is also a revealing, refining, consuming, illuminating process, and one by which we are made to glow with love to God, and love to man, and love to souls.”