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Trinity
Text: Matthew 3:16-17
2 Corinthians 13:14
Christology
Soteriology (Salvation)
Trinity
No appropriate
metaphor/ analogies or
picture could illustrate
the doctrine of Trinity.
The doctrine of the
Trinity is knowable but
incomprehensible.
It is true that the word Trinity
cannot be found in the Bible
but it doesn’t mean that the
doctrine of the Trinity is not
in the Bible.
What is Trinity?
We may define the doctrine of
the Trinity as follows: God
eternally exists as three
persons, Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit, and each person is fully
God, and there is one God.
-Wayne Grudem
God eternally exists in
three distinct persons,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
and each person is fully
God, and there is one God,
co-eternal and co-
existential.
Within the one Being that
is God, there exists
eternally three coequal
and coeternal persons,
namely, the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit.
-Dr. James White
God eternally exists in
three distinct persons,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
and each person is fully
God, and there is one God,
co-eternal and co-
existential.
Trinity is. . .
Trinity is. . .
Each of these three divine
persons is eternal with no
beginning, each almighty
and uncreated.
Trinity is. . .
None greater or less than
another
Trinity is. . .
Each God, and yet
together being but one
God,
Trinity is. . .
New Testament
New Testament
2 Cor. 3:17-18
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled
faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed
into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes
from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
In Three Distinct Persons
Arianism
Heresies
Modalism/ Sabellianism
Athanasian Creed
And the Catholic Faith is this: That we worship one
God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity... For there is one
Person of the Father, another of the Son: and
another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the
Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one:
the Glory equal, the Majesty co-eternal. Such as the
Father is, such is the Son: and such is the Holy
Ghost...
Athanasian Creed
And in this Trinity none is afore, or after other:
none is greater, or less than another: But the whole
three Persons are co-eternal together: and co-
equal. So that in all things, as it is aforesaid; the
Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity is to be
worshipped. He therefore that will be saved: must
thus think of the Trinity…
Doctrinal Implications
What will happen if we
deny the doctrine of the
Trinity?
First, the atonement is at
stake.
Second, justification by
faith alone is threatened
if we deny the full deity
of the Son.
Third, if Jesus is not
infinite God, should we
pray to him or worship
him?
Fourth, if someone teaches that
Christ was a created being but
nonetheless one who saved us, then
this teaching wrongly begins to
attribute credit for salvation to a
creature and not to God himself.
Fifth, the independence and
personal nature of God are
at stake.
Sixth, the unity of the
universe is at stake.
The True Church must
believe in the doctrine of
the Trinity.
The True Church must
defend and teach the
doctrine of the Trinity.
The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and the love of God, and
the communion of the Holy
Spirit be with you all. Amen.
2 Corinthians 13:14