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  2. www.christianity.com › wiki › godThe Roles of the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

    Oct 12, 2023 · The word Trinity cannot be found in the Bible, but the truth of it can. While there's only one God, the Godhead consists of three distinct persons - the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All are equally omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, eternal, and unchanging, but each one has unique functions.

  3. www.britannica.com › topic › Trinity-ChristianityTrinity | Definition, Theology, & History | Britannica

    Sep 9, 2024 · Trinity, in Christian doctrine, the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead. The doctrine of the Trinity is considered to be one of the central Christian affirmations about God.

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  4. www.cru.org › us › enUnderstanding the Trinity: How Can God Be Three Persons in ...

    • What Does It Mean That God Is A Trinity?
    • Is The Trinity Contradictory?
    • Essence and Person
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    The doctrine of the Trinity means that there is one God who eternally exists as three distinct Persons — the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Stated differently, God is one in essence and three in person. These definitions express three crucial truths: (1) The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct Persons, (2) each Person is fully God, (3) there i...

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    This leads us to investigate more closely a very helpful definition of the Trinity which I mentioned earlier: God is one in essence, but three in Person. This formulation can show us why there are not three Gods, and why the Trinity is not a contradiction. In order for something to be contradictory, it must violate the law of noncontradiction. This...

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    Essence

    What does essence mean? As I said earlier, it means the same thing as being. God’s essence is His being. To be even more precise, essence is what you are. At the risk of sounding too physical, essence can be understood as the “stuff ” that you “consist of.” Of course we are speaking by analogy here, for we cannot understand this in a physical way about God. “God is spirit” (John 4:24). Further, we clearly should not think of God as “consisting of ” anything other than divinity. The “substance...

    Person

    In regards to the Trinity, we use the term “Person” differently than we generally use it in everyday life. Therefore, it is often difficult to have a concrete definition of Person as we use it in regards to the Trinity. What we do not mean by Person is an “independent individual” in the sense that both I and another human are separate, independent individuals who can exist apart from one another. What we do mean by Person is something that regards himself as “I” and others as “You.” So the Fa...

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    There are many illustrations which have been offered to help us understand the Trinity. While there are some illustrations which are helpful, we should recognize that no illustration is perfect. Unfortunately, there are many illustrations which are not simply imperfect, but in error. One illustration to beware of is the one which says, “I am one pe...

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    Let us quickly review what we have seen. 1. The Trinity is not belief in three gods.There is only one God, and we must never stray from this. 2. This one God exists as three Persons. 3. The three Persons are not each part of God, but are each fully God and equally God.Within God’s one undivided being there is an unfolding into three interpersonal r...

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    The Trinity is first of all important because God is important. To understand more fully what God is like is a way of honoring God. Further, we should allow the fact that God is triune to deepen our worship. We exist to worship God. And God seeks people to worship Him in “spirit and truth” (John 4:24). Therefore, we must always endeavor to deepen o...

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    St. Justin and Clement of Alexandria referenced all three persons of the Trinity in their doxologies and St. Basil likewise, in the evening lighting of lamps. [81] Origen of Alexandria (AD 185 – c. 253) has often been interpreted as Subordinationist – believing in shared

  7. plato.stanford.edu › entries › trinityHistory of Trinitarian Doctrines - Stanford Encyclopedia of ...

    Introduction. This supplementary document discusses the history of Trinity theories. Although early Christian theologians speculated in many ways on the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, no one clearly and fully asserted the doctrine of the Trinity as explained at the top of the main entry until around the end of the so-called Arian Controversy.

  8. plato.stanford.edu › entries › trinityTrinity - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Jul 23, 2009 · Stephen Layman (2016) has constructed a similar and arguably better developed three-self Trinity theory. Motivated by the New Testament, Layman says that the three Persons of the Trinity are three selves (124–31). Each is “divine” in that he is a fitting object of worship, and so is God the Trinity.

  9. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › guidesThe role of the Trinity in creation - Key beliefs in ... - BBC

    Christians believe that the Trinity close Trinity Three persons in one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. was present at the creation of the world.