Holy Trinity Bible Study

The holy trinity

Introduction

This exciting Bible lesson will turn your Christian life into a life fulfilled through the oneness of God by understanding what you can expect from the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.  Our chart will give you a summary of the lessons.

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The holy trinity

First Part Of Study

Understanding the Holy Trinity or oneness of of God by His meaning is important knowledge for every Christian in order for us to understand our relationship with Him.  Until we grasp the truth that the Godhead is three entities with distinct administrations and operations, yet are one of the same, we cannot fully attain a successful lifestyle in Christ because of our confusion. 

The confusion lies in the fact that we cannot expect Christ to function as the Holy spirit, God to function as Christ and the Holy Spirit to function as both God and Christ.  We must look to God as our Father, our Creator, our Provider and the Center of our lives, but we must also look to Christ and the Holy Spirit to provide specific functions that are not the same.  This is the message of the Trinity Bible Study.

While many would have us believe that the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost is a mystery, in this study you will find understanding.

When it comes to all aspects of the Bible, it's important that we learn to understand God from His understanding and not ours.  In this lesson you will learn God's meaning of oneness in terms of unity rather than in terms of an amount or numerical understanding of "one," rather than two, three, etc. 

UNDERSTANDING GOD'S TRI-UNITY

Deuteronomy 6:4, "Hear, 0 Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord." 

In order to understand the tri-unity of God and our relationship with Him, it's important that we first understand His oneness.  For instance, look at the scripture above.  The word in the Hebrew for one is Echad.  This word connotates a collective oneness.  In other words, a united oneness rather than the numerical oneness we normally identify with as single thing or only one of something rather than a multiple of something.  Through this word we can see that the oneness is not a reference to a numerical but rather a unified oneness.

Genesis 1:26, God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."  In this verse we see the evidence of the plurality of the Godhead, while there is still a oneness of God. 

Here are other examples of this to help give you better understanding and to give you more than three witnesses.  We're told in the New Testament that by two or three witnesses let every truth be told. So we have more evidence than needed according to Biblical standards.

Genesis 3:22, "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever."

Genesis 11:6-7, "And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." In verse 6, the Lord uses the word one as in a collective oneness and again notice the plurality of the word "us" in verse 7 when referring to himself.

In a sense this illustrates the image of our own being as triune, and shows that we are made in the image of God. It's really not that complex a concept to understand. For example, Jesus said concerning marriage, "And they twain shall be one flesh," Matthew 19:5, yet when we see two people who are married, physically, it looks like two people but Jesus called them one. There's a joining together and a collective oneness implied such as one egg containing a yolk, egg white and shell.

A UNIFIED ONENESS (NOT NUMERICAL) OF THE FATHER, CHRIST AND OURSELVES: THE TRINITY

Jesus Christ himself spoke of this type of oneness and the unity between the Father, Himself, and us (his disciples).   John 17:11 says, "And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.  Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are." 

John 17:21 says, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."  Verse 22 reads, "And the glory thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:" Verse 23 says, "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one." From these verses we can see that Christ is referring to a unified oneness rather than a numerical oneness. 

It's obvious that the body of Christ has many members but one body as Paul said in 1 Corinthians 12:12, "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ."  Jesus prayed that we may be one even as He and the Father are one.

If He and the Father are numerically one in the same person, then we can conclude that God wishes to make us numerically one.

Jesus referred to David's statement, in Psalms 110:1, "The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool," a direct reference to the Father and the Son as being separate entities in the Godhead.  And Jesus, himself, gives credence to this statement spoken by the Holy Ghost through King David.

We are told in some denominational sects that we will only see Jesus Christ when we go to Heaven or that there will only be Jesus Christ; that God is numerically one. This teaching fails the test of being in harmony with all of the scriptures.  You decide, for yourself, in Christ, what is correct.

Now that we have established the oneness of God through the scriptures, let us prove out their separate identities.

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