THE CONCEPT OF THE TRINITY
Why is understanding the Trinity important? To know the character
of God. The Holy Bible explains the Trinity. To fully understand
the Holy Scriptures, we need to go to the original text, in
Hebrew... Deut.
6:4
Hear, O Israel (Shema Yisrael): The Lord our God (Adonai
Eloheinu), the Lord is one
(Adonai Ehad).
It is important to note that the Hebrew word used for 'ONE' is
not Yahid, which denotes absolute singularity elsewhere in the
O.T. Instead, Moses chose the Hebrew word Ehad, which signifies unity and oneness in plurality. This word is used in Genesis 2:24 where Adam and Eve are instructed to
become "one flesh". It's also found in Numbers 13:23, where the Hebrew spies returned with a
"single cluster" of grapes.
Ehad is the word that God uses when he tells
Ezekiel: "Join them together into one stick so that they
(the two sticks for Israel and Judah) will become one (ehad) in your hand" (Ezekiel 37:17).
The first words of the Bible declare: "In the beginning God
(Elohim) created the heavens (hashamayim) and the earth."
The word for God here is in the plural form, even as is the word for heavens,
and that it is the same as used in the first commandment:
"You shall have no other gods (Elohim) before me"
(Exodus 20:3).
The plurality of the name Elohim is in Genesis 1:26 when God
said: "Let us
make man in our image." In Genesis 3:22 God said: "The
man has now become like one of us."
And in Genesis 11:7 God said: "Come, let us go down and confuse their
language."
The central difference between Christian and non-Christian
denominations is the acceptance of the Trinity. If you don't
agree with the concept of the Trinity, you are believing in a
different god, and only the God revealed in the Holy Bible can
save us from ETERNAL HELL. Here are some verses regarding the
Holy Trinity...
John
14:26 But the Comforter,
which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my
name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Acts
5:3-4 But Peter said,
Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of
the land? .... thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
John
15:26 But when the
Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which
proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
Rev. 4:8 ...and they rest not day and night,
saying, Holy,
holy, holy*, LORD God
Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
( * Holy
X 3= Trinity )
1 Peter
1:2 Elect according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus
Christ:
Titus
3:4-6 But after that the
kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he
saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
John
20:22 And when he had
said this, he
breathed on them, and
saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Isaiah
6:3 And one cried unto
another, and said, Holy, holy, holy,* is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is
full of his glory.
( * Holy
X 3= Trinity )
John
14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him,
and have seen him.
1 Tim.
3:16 And without
controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the
flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the
Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Heb.
9:14 How much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Eph.2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
Father.
2 Cor.
13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
1 Cor.
6:11 And such were some
of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Acts
13:2 As they ministered
to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the
work whereunto I have called them.
Col. 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Isaiah
9:6 For unto us a child
is born, unto us a son
is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his
name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace.
John
1:1, with 1:14 In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and truth.
John
10:30 I and my Father
are one.
Hebrews
1:6,8 And again, when he
bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, And let
all the angels of God worship him.
But unto
the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God*, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of
righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
(* God
calling the Son; God)
Matthew
1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother
Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was
found with
child of the Holy Ghost.
Matthew
28:19 Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name* of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost: