However, there are ways that God has chosen to talk to us. In Isaiah we are told, "'Come closer, and listen to this. From the beginning, I have told you plainly what would happen.
We can see clearly here that God is talking about sending His spirit to talk to us. So, while God is the one, true God. He is the only God, He uses other parts of Himself to accomplish His goals. The Holy Spirit is designed to speak to us. It is that little voice in your head. Meanwhile, Jesus is the Son of God, but also God. He is the way God revealed Himself to us in a way we could understand. None of us can see God, not in a physical way.
And the Holy Spirit is also heard, not seen. However, Jesus was a physical manifestation of God we were able to see. Why do we have to break God up into three parts? It sounds confusing at first, but when we understand the jobs of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, breaking it up makes it easier for us to understand God.
Many people have stopped using the term " Trinity " and started using the term "Tri-Unity" to explain the three parts of God and how they form the whole.
Some use math to explain the Holy Trinity. But a person cannot actually be the same as another person. They are distinct individuals. God, however, lives without the limitations of a three-dimensional universe. He is spirit. And he is infinitely more complex than we are. But emphasizes that there is only ONE God.
It is a way of acknowledging what the Bible reveals to us about God, that God is yet three "Persons" who have the same essence of deity. Some have tried to give human illustrations for the Trinity, such as H 2 O being water, ice and steam all different forms, but all are H 2 O. Another illustration would be the sun.
In the desert, he refused to turn the stones into bread, choosing instead to live by the word of God. After Peter urged him to turn away from Jerusalem so as to avoid persecution, Jesus rebuked Peter for thinking as a human rather than like God. He also faithfully taught only what he heard from the Father.
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Summary Let us quickly review what we have seen. The Trinity is not belief in three gods. There is only one God, and we must never stray from this. This one God exists as three Persons. The three Persons are not each part of God, but are each fully God and equally God.
God is not one person who took three consecutive roles. That is the heresy of modalism. The Father did not become the Son and then the Holy Spirit. Instead, there have always been and always will be three distinct persons in the Godhead. The Trinity is not a contradiction because God is not three in the same way that He is one.
God is one in essence, three in Person. Application The Trinity is first of all important because God is important. Ibid, Ibid, p. While I believe that this is a helpful definition, it should be recognized that Grudem himself is offering this as more of an explanation than definition of Person.
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