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Article 8: The Trinity In keeping with this truth and Word of God we believe in one God, who is one single essence, in whom there are three persons, really, truly, and eternally distinct according to their incommunicable properties—namely,Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.The Fatheris the cause, origin,
One of the amazing things is that during the Reformation when everything was ad fontes the Trinity stayed. The Trinity consists of three persons united into one, whose sole council is one. As one, the three persons will one thing but as the three persons fulfill their own part as the Father, Son, a
The author goes in, like Peter pushing past John into the empty tomb, believing what he sees, and writes: “Only if a doctrine of the Trinity draws the charge of tritheism can it be assured that it is doing justice to the threeness of God” (51). He then puts together two pieces of the grand puzzle of
This is not to deny that there is a certain threeness built into the creation. There is, and that fact is striking. These are not proofs of the Trinity, or vestiges of the Trinity, as is sometimes alleged. But they are the stamp, as it were, of God's own threeness on the creation that He has made. T
The word "Trinity" is not found in the Bible but is, nevertheless, an accurate description of what the Bible teaches. It is simply the compound of two words: "tri," which means three, and "unity," which refers to oneness. There are three elements to this truth. First, the Bible teaches that there
Even though the word Trinity is not found in Scripture, it is very clearly the teaching of the word of God that God is three. We have the three persons mentioned in the baptism formula. Baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. We have the apostolic benediction. There i
Secondly, how it is revealed to us in God's Word. And finally, the blessed truth of the Triune God. Yes, the truth of the Trinity is a great mystery. It has to do with the very being of God Himself. We know from Scripture that God is incomprehensible in His being. We can never fathom the full
“Trinity” is a contraction of two words: “Tri,” meaning “three” and “Unity,” meaning “one” and so expresses the truth that GOD IS ONE IN ESSENCE AND THREE IN PERSONS. This truth must be maintained over-against the error of Unitarianism and the errors of the Tritheist and Polytheist. The former makes
Further, it should be made clear that by the doctrine of the trinity we do not mean any scheme of tritheism; nor any theory of a modal trinity, according to which the one solitary god manifests himself in three modes of action; nor any sub-ordinationist position; nor a mere economical trinity, which