TRINITY; WHAT IS AND WHY IS IMPORTANT

Trinity is a Christian doctrine that teaches that there is one God existing in three persons of the Godhead. The three persons of the Trinity are coequal, coeternal, and consubstantial. All the persons of the Trinity are equal to each other. They are coeternal meaning that they have always been and they are consubstantial meaning they are of the same substance, nature, and essence.

The deity of God the Father has not been disputed like how the deity of Christ and deity of the Holy Spirit has been attacked. The doctrine of Holy trinity is very important to Christian’s today because it is tied to other essential doctrines laid out in scripture. 

Distinct Persons of Trinity

This picture is very important to explain the doctrine of the Trinity. God is the Father is God. God the Father is not God the Son. God the Father is not God the Holy Spirit. God the Son is not God the Holy Spirit. God the Son is God. God the Holy Spirit is God.

The Deity of Christ has also been attacked by the oneness movement which believes that only God the Father is God and God the Son and Holy Spirit is the same God taking different forms. Others have gone ahead to claim that Jesus is not God but a prophet.

Several people have always questioned the deity of Christ. But scriptures are full of pieces of evidence of Christ being fully God and fully Man. Isaiah prophesied that Messiah would be called Mighty God, Isaiah 9:6. In John 1, Christ is the Word, he was in the beginning with God meaning He is distinct from God the Father and He is God. All things were created through Him. Christ Jesus forgives Sins, He is ‘I AM’ and calls all people to worship Him. Christ Jesus will judge the people on the last day.

Many people object to this by claiming that Jesus did not say He was God. Well, but He didn’t have to. The confession of Thomas and the scriptures which are inspired reveal that He is.

Chalcedonian Creed explains perfectly the deity of Christ.

We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with us according to the manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the virgin Mary, the mother of God, according to the manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the prophets from the beginning have declared concerning him, and the Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us.

Chalcedonian Creed

There is no person of the holy trinity who has been disregarded, his identity downplayed and blasphemed as Holy Spirit. Many people have gone ahead to claim that Holy Spirit is a force. This is totally not true since the Holy Spirit of God can be grieved, he speaks (Hebrews 3:7), reasons (Acts 15:28), thinks and understands (1 Corinthians 2:10–11), wills (1 Corinthians 12:11), feels (Ephesians 4:30), and gives personal fellowship (2 Corinthians 13:14). These are all qualities of personhood.

One God, Three Persons

Trinity holds that there is only one God and there are three persons of the Godhead; The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. These three are fully God and are equal in power, love, mercy, holiness, etc. Do not think persons of the Godhead to be like God divided into three or like three gods. There is one God. Three persons of the Trinity are fully God.

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

1 John 5:7