All the saints adore thee, who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be. Though the darkness hide thee, perfect in powr, in love, and purity. Then god spoke all these words, saying, i am the lord your god, who brought you out of the land of egypt, out of the house of slavery. When jesus was baptized in the jordan river, all three members of the godhead were there. God in three persons curatorial statement the residents and the museum of modern art have enjoyed a uniquely rewarding relationship for thirtyfive years. However, the doctrine of the godhead trinity is without questions revealed in god s word. Merciful and mighty, god in three persons, blessed trinity. God in three persons will enhance undergraduate theological courses and has applications for graduate systematics and historical theology study. A refutation to modalism daniel philip roberts sth152. God in three persons exodus 20 begins with a simple declarative statement that introduces the ten commandments. There is no other god there never has been, and there never will be. However, the references to all three persons of the holy trinity and their involvement in creation show us that while the work of creation may reveal the father in particular, creation is something all three persons do in common.
God in three persons is one god it needs to be emphasized that being a trinitarian does not involve a repudiation of monotheism. With god in three persons, the story is told within one hour long album. A contradiction would be there is one god and there is not one god, or god is three persons and god is not three persons, or even which is similar to the previous statement god is three persons and god is one person. Owen argued that though each of the three persons of the godhead are identical with respect to the being or essence of god, yet believers have a peculiar fellowship or communion with each person distinctly. He is god the father, god the son jesus, and god the holy spirit. God in three persons explaining the trinity to children. I, yes i, am the lord, and there is no other savior. Sentences of this type with a similar meaning do they. Rather, the three persons subsist within the one divine nature, coequal in terms of their shared essence. This contemporary approach to basic doctrine offers a crucial tool for students who want comprehensive, consistent, logical theology.
The trinity is the least understood and most important concept. One in essence, three in person reformed bible studies. It is abundantly obvious from scripture that there is but one god. Understanding the biblical doctrine of the trinity godhead. In a clear emphatic declaration, god tells us in isaiah. The bonus mate rial unlike previous entries in the series excluding the mole box, god in three persons comes with another two discs. God the father 6 holy spirit 96 jesus christ 300 trinity 105 by topic.
The biblical doctrine of the trinity is god s selfrevelation about his nature. Long the litmus test of tradi tional christianity, the triune god is. That god is one, is a truth that god sought to write indelibly on the heart of every israelite. God is a triunity, with each person of the godhead equally and fully and eternally god. We believe that the one god eternally exists in three persons. How does one reconcile the one god of the old testament with the three persons of the new testament trinity. Long the litmus test of traditional christianity, the triune god is deemed a mystery, unable to be understood other questions arise. Augustine, in contrast, held that the three visitors to abraham were the three persons of the trinity. The three persons appear in a logical, causal order. Trinity history of trinitarian doctrines stanford encyclopedia of. The residents god in three persons 1988 full album. However, the story is more complex here and is left open to different interpretations. This must be so, for if god is one, then each person of the godhead must be involved in everything that god does.
The bible teaches us that god is three unique persons, yet he is one god. God in three persons is a rock operaconcept album by the residents, released in 1988. God in three persons by carl brumback, 9780871483546, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The grace of the lord jesus christ, and the love of god, and the fellowship of the holy spirit, be with you all. Does the sacrifice of christ fit with the three inone god. Accessible hymn sett early in the morning our song shall rise to thee. Wellum is associate professor of christian theology at the southern baptist theological seminary. And the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters. He saw no indication that the visitors were unequal, as would be the case in justins reading. For many years i have wondered about god being one god but three persons. However, we can understand something of its truth by summarizing the teaching of scripture in three statements.
Justin appropriated the god who visited abraham to jesus, the second person of the trinity. In this one divine being there are three persons or individual subsistences. The term god normally in scripture relates to, not a particular person of the trinity, but to the essence and na. But to say that god is three persons and there is one god is not a contradiction. They do not have an independent existenceyou could not take away any of the three persons and still have god. What is this, they urge, if not an appearance of, or even a triple temporary incarnation of the three persons within gods nature. The father is the unseen, omnipresent source of all being, revealed in. The subsistence and operation of the three persons in the divine being is marked by a certain definite order. In our material existence, the concept that god is one god, yet exists as three distinct persons, is foreign to us.
Doctrine of god april 17, 2018 1 introduction through the history of the church. The three divine beings are one god in that the holy spirit literally came forth from the father, and that the son literally came forth from the father and the holy spirit, just as eve came forth from adam, and cain came forth from their union. Their being surrounded by polytheism made this emphasis imperative. Each is necessary, and each is distinct, and yet all are one. All the saints adore thee, casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea. In exodus, god appears to moses as a bush which burns but is not consumed and to the israelites as a pillar of cloud by day. All the saints adore thee, who was, and is, and evermore shall be. The songs are all sung in a rhythmic spoken word fashion, similar to talking blues. The whole undivided essence of god belongs equally to each of the three persons. If there be one god subsisting in three persons, then let us give equal reverence to all the persons in the trinity.
305 626 1527 930 473 229 612 771 43 137 663 1139 1315 205 1332 461 113 486 179 501 825 1331 1095 1031 986 1404 844 511 1160 888 1160 648 35 499 781 1465 514 534 4 661 274 931 729 749