The Holy Trinity?
The Holy Trinity!
The term doesn’t come up a single time in the Bible, but it’s still thoroughly Biblical: One God in three persons. Not three gods, One God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All fully divine, uncaused and eternal, but without division of nature, essence or being.
Evidences of the Trinity are all throughout Scripture.
In Matthew 3, after Jesus was baptized, the heavens opened up and the Spirit descended on Him like a dove. Then, a voice from heaven was heard saying:
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:17)
During the Last Supper, Jesus promised His Disciples the Holy Spirit (John 16:5-15). Then He prayed:
“And now, Father, glorify Me in Your own presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.” (John 17:5)
After His death and resurrection, He commissioned His Disciples to go and baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19)
We read in John 1 and in Colossians 1 that the Father and Son were present at creation. And, in Genesis 1:2, we see the Spirit also.
He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:2)
And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (Genesis 1:2)
The Apostle Paul wrote that Christ and the Godhead are seen with Israel in the Book of Numbers where we also see the power of the Spirit.
They drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them, God was not pleased. (1 Corinthians 10:1-11)
24 So Moses went out and reported the Lord’s words to the people. He gathered the seventy elders and stationed them around the Tabernacle. 25 And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Then he gave the seventy elders the same Spirit that was upon Moses. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. (Numbers 11:24-25)
The Triune God is indeed one of those divine mysteries, but how necessary is it to believe?
Well, to deny the Trinity is heresy.
1 John 2:22 says:
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist; he who denies the Father and the Son.
And since 1 John 5:6 says that the Spirit is the One who testifies about Christ, denying the Father and the Son is also to reject the Spirit.
This is he who came by the water and the blood, Jesus Christ; not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies because the Spirit is the truth. (1 John 5:6)
The person who denies the Trinity is a liar and an antichrist…
…when we understand the text.
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