In Scripture, especially the NT God is revealed by Jesus to be three distinct "persons" though one God, one Being, and one divine nature.
Jesus speaks of the Father and the Spirit in ways that show that each are distinct in their personal identity. He uses the terms he, we, him, us, you, yours, etc. He prays to the Father and says He and the Father send the Spirit to live in believers and in doing so, the Father and the Son also live in believers due to the unity of the three persons. There is only one God, not three, but this True God has three distinctions who possess attributes of personhood: consciousness, will, love, power, free agency, intellect and knowledge, among some. Each of the three persons are called God in the Scriptures, and each of the three persons are described in Scripture as having the same divine attributes.
This threeness is not as Modalist/Sabellianians state as one person acting in three different modes. The baptism of Jesus shows us that the Father, Son, and Spirit are distinct from one another and they were all three viewed in this singe event.
Nor is this threeness showing that there are three separate Gods, because they are distinct from each other, but always fully unified in the divine Being of God.
And there is not one God who is the Father, and Jesus His Son is a different person of a different order (human or demi-god), and the Holy Spirit is simply an impersonal power or force as Unitarians propose. As I have shown in my posts on God is Spirit and God is Savior and God is the Son, using Scripture, all three persons are personal, distinct, interactive with each other, and divine. Because I have cited Scripture for this in those posts, I am not going to repost them in this one. But I do urge people to be like Bereans and check out the Scripture reference I posted to see if what I have claimed is true.
One God, a unified one, Hebrew word "echad" used in Deut. 6:4-5 for the Shema and also for the oneness of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2. Who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, distinct persons, but all co-equal, co-eternal, and equally God to the fullest.
In Scripture, especially the NT God is revealed by Jesus to be three distinct "persons" though one God, one Being, and one divine nature.
Jesus speaks of the Father and the Spirit in ways that show that each are distinct in their personal identity. He uses the terms he, we, him, us, you, yours, etc. He prays to the Father and says He and the Father send the Spirit to live in believers and in doing so, the Father and the Son also live in believers due to the unity of the three persons. There is only one God, not three, but this True God has three distinctions who possess attributes of personhood: consciousness, will, love, power, free agency, intellect and knowledge, among some. Each of the three persons are called God in the Scriptures, and each of the three persons are described in Scripture as having the same divine attributes.
This threeness is not as Modalist/Sabellianians state as one person acting in three different modes. The baptism of Jesus shows us that the Father, Son, and Spirit are distinct from one another and they were all three viewed in this singe event.
Nor is this threeness showing that there are three separate Gods, because they are distinct from each other, but always fully unified in the divine Being of God.
And there is not one God who is the Father, and Jesus His Son is a different person of a different order (human or demi-god), and the Holy Spirit is simply an impersonal power or force as Unitarians propose. As I have shown in my posts on God is Spirit and God is Savior and God is the Son, using Scripture, all three persons are personal, distinct, interactive with each other, and divine. Because I have cited Scripture for this in those posts, I am not going to repost them in this one. But I do urge people to be like Bereans and check out the Scripture reference I posted to see if what I have claimed is true.
Amen! One God consisting of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Coequal and Coeternal
One God, a unified one, Hebrew word "echad" used in Deut. 6:4-5 for the Shema and also for the oneness of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2. Who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, distinct persons, but all co-equal, co-eternal, and equally God to the fullest.
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