“Oh my God!” is a phrase that has become more and more frequently used in day to day conversations all across America. We often exclaim His name as we are given a new piece of information, become annoyed, are surprised, and when we are exhausted and pleading for help from deity. We hear His name in movies, song lyrics, and everyday life. There is no escaping it. Do we ever really stop and think about what it is that this phrase is saying? Who is “God” and is He really yours to be had? How
2011 The Three Persons of the Trinity The Trinity consists of God, the Father, Jesus, the Son of God and the Holy Spirit. The Christian faith recognizes there is one God and He is one with His Son, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The purpose of this essay is to describe the interrelationship of the three persons of the Trinity. This will include the concepts of the economic trinity, the essential trinity and the social trinity. God, the creator of all is known in Hebrew as Elohim, meaning strength
Christianity is monotheistic, therefore we only believe in on God, but this one God has three separate but equal parts to it? If we say that there is only the Father, God, we are wrong, because the Father has a Son, sends his one and only son to the earth and sends the Holy Spirit to us, but these three persons are the same? Does this mean that the Father God has himself, sends his one
major questions that I wanted to tackle are: (1) Is there only one God, (2) Are all three figures of the trinity divine, (3) Is the father not the son, who is not the spirit, (4) How
theologically concepts as God and Creation, Christology, human Sin and salvation, eschatology and resurrection. Owing to the limited space, I will only explore some key elements which I think are worthy to be discussed. First, Gregory depicts the God’s attributes – it begins with the faith of Trinity- God created the world and humankind, the Son saved humankind and the Spirit sustained the world (259, 263, 362). There is no one before God and there is no creator (259). God is incomprehensible and
The Trinity in Christian culture is a belief that God is represented in three major forms. In various works of art to include more plainly; The Trinity by Agnolo Gaddi. God is shown in his three most popular forms. God the Father, God the Son known to be Jesus Christ, and God the Holy spirit in the form of a white dove. This painting was done between ca. 1390-1396 by has mentioned before Agnolo Gaddi. Gaddi is from Florence, Italy and is the son of Taddeo Gaddi and the grandson of Gaddo Gaddi whom
Many would agree that the Trinity is one of the most complex and difficult of the Christian doctrines to fully understand. It is tough for many to process the complete meaning of the Trinity. Is it three different people? Are they all God himself? If we believe that God is “entirely other” it may make it easier to fully understand the concept of the Trinity and to answers these questions that numerous Christian’s have. Often, it is difficult for us to explain Heavenly concepts that we cannot physically
Three, We learn about You and Me. The Circle of Love Are you a part of the Circle of Love? Well do you want to be? What an enticing offer you might say. Well that is the invitation that God extends to the whole world. You see this Circle of Love was in existence before all and all was created from it. God chose to create in order to incorporate into His love circle. How marvelous is that? Our very existence at its core is to join the circle. Timothy Keller describes it as “a dance” (Kings
my personal life. Through the examples of my father and my youth pastor Steve I will explore how my image of God as a father has grown and developed and how healthy and unhealthy relationships have changed that. I will begin by reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with my father and the negative impact that has had on my image of God. Secondly I will reflect on my healthy relationship with Steve and the positive impact that has had on my image of God. Finally, I will reflect on how this has impacted
was written in the beginning with Genesis 1:27: "And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them." As I know the creation of human being, therefore, my pastoral care and pastoral counseling will also views all human being as spiritual and bodily creatures created by God. As a result, my priority in pastoral care and pastoral counseling is that I was called into relationship with God and with one another. the same way my counseling session