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TRINITY

The document discusses the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, which describes God as being one in essence but existing as three persons - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. It explores various historical views on the nature of God, such as modalism, Arianism, and tritheism, before explaining the orthodox view of the Trinity as three distinct persons in one God.

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TRINITY

The document discusses the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, which describes God as being one in essence but existing as three persons - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. It explores various historical views on the nature of God, such as modalism, Arianism, and tritheism, before explaining the orthodox view of the Trinity as three distinct persons in one God.

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TRINITY- THE SAME AS;

1.GOD IS TRIUNE, TRIUNITY


2.GODHEAD (COL 2:9-10)
3.THREE ARE ONE (I JOHN 5:7,8)
4.ONENESS THE UNITY OF GOD
“THE WORD “TRINITY OR TRIUNITY” IS NOT A BIBLICAL TERM BUT
A THEOLOGICAL ONE, DESCRIBING THE IDEA OF THREE DISTINCT
CENTERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE ONE GOD.
 THE TRINITY- GOD, ALTHOUGH ONE, NEVERTHELESS EXIST IN
THREE PERSONS, GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE
HOLY SPIRIT.
 TRINITY IN LATIN “TRINITAS” (THREENESS)
 TRINITY IN CREEDS
DEBATES ON THIS DOCTRINE CALLED OUT THE BEST AND MOST
DIFFICULT ENCOUNTERED OF THE EARLY CHURCH
NOTES:
VIEWS ABOUT GOD
1. SABELLIANISM – IS THE IDEA BASED ON GOD’S UNITY, IT SAYS,
THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE ONLY THREE
DIFFERENT WAYS (3 MANIFESTATIONS) OR 3 REVELATION AS GOD
SHOWS HIMSELF.
2. ARIANISM – IS ALSO BASED ON GOD’S UNITY, SAYING, THE
FATHER IS GOD, JESUS CHRIST IS “god”. ACREATED BEING, AND
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ONE OF GOD’S ATTRIBUTES MERELY HIS
POWER.
3. TRITHEISM- THERE ARE SIMPLY THREE SEPARATE, ESSENTIALLY
DIFFERENT GODS.
4. TRIUNITY OR TRINITY – IS ALSO BASED ON GOD’S UNITY.
DESCRIBING THE THREE DISTINCT PERSONS IN ONE GOD.
 THE CHURCH FATHER (TERTULLIAN A.D 145-220) IN ALL ARE
OF ONE BY UNITY (THAT IS) OF SUBSTANCE, WHILE THE
MYSTERY OF THE DISPENSATION IS STILL GUARDED WHICH
DISTRIBUTED THE UNITY INTO TRINITY, PLACING THEIR
ORDER; THE 3 PERSONS, THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY
SPIRIT. THESE THREE HOWEVER IS NOT IN CONDITION BUT
IN DECREE NOT IN SUBSTANCE BUT IN FORM, NOT IN
POWER BUT IN ASPECT.
 DOROTHY SAYERS SAYS,
THESE THREE ARE ONE, EACH EQUALITY IN ITSELF. NO ONE
CAN EXIST WITHOUT THE OTHER.
NOTES:
 GOD IS DISTINCTIVELY CALLED ‘ONE LORD” (DEV. 6:4, MK. 12:29)
(JN. 10:30 I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE.)
 BUT WE MUST EXAMINE CLOSELY AS TO HOW THE WORD “ONE”
IS BEING USED.
 THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF “UNITY” OR “ONENESS” IN BOTH
ENGLISH AND HEBREW. ABSOLUTE UNITY AND COMPOUND
UNITY.
ABSOLUTE UNITY IS THAT OF SINGULARITY.
EX: I GIVE YOU ONE APPLE AND YOU GET A SINGLE APPLE, BUT IF
YOU ASK FOR “ONE” BUNCH OF GRAPES, YOU DON’T GET ONE
GRAPE. “ONE” IN THIS CASE IS A WORD OF COMPOUND UNITY,
THE MANY IN THE ONE.
1. (HEB) YACHEAD – IS THE OLD TESTAMENT WORD USED FOR
ABSOLUTE UNITY. A MATHEMATICAL ONE OR NUMERICAL ONE
BUT NEVER DESCRIBE THE UNITY OF GOD. (JN 1:18, MAT.24:36)
EXO. 22:20, 2 KINGS 19:19
2. (HEB) ECHAD – UNITED ONE, COMPOUND UNITY, ONE BODY,
BECOME ONE. (GEN. 2:24, 1 COR. 12:12) 1 COR. 6:16, JN.17:20-
28, EPH.2:14, EZEK 3:1, I CHRO. 12:38.
 JN.10:30 – THE WORD IS (GR.HEIN) NOT A MASCULINE
GENDER, IS NOT IN ONE PERSON BUT NEVER ONE IN
SUBSTANCE, ESSENCE, AND SOLIDARITY.
(“GR. HOMOQUSIOS”) ONE PERSON, ONE BEING.
NOTES:

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