1.TRINITY DEFINITION

• Comes from the Latin word ‘trinitas’ - meaning “

” = “Trinity” stands for “Tri-

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• Belief that God is

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- within the one God there exists 3 distinct

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(Father, Son, Holy Spirit)
• These Persons are co-equal / co-eternal / co-substantial. Everything said of God (eternal, all-knowing, worthy of praise, etc), is said of the 3 Persons
• ONE ‘

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’ and THREE ‘

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• ‘What’ = nature and ‘Who’ = person ; therefore 3 persons, 1 God
• 1 x 1 x 1 = 1

2. TRINITY LANGUAGE

• ‘Echad’ =

Unity (always used of God’s oneness / marriage & morning/evening)

• ‘Yachid’ =

Unity (never used to describe God as ‘one’)

• The Shema = “Hear O Israel: The Lord our God, The Lord is One (echad).” Deuteronomy 6:4

Genesis 1:26-27
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Matthew 28:18-20
“Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

• There is only

God (Deut. 6:4; Isaiah 43:10; 1 Cor. 8:4; 1 Tim.2:5)

• The Father

God (Gal. 1:1) - The Son

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God (John 1:1) - The

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is God (Acts 5:3)

• Therefore Father, Son & Holy Spirit = Triune God

3. MISCONCEPTIONS OF THE TRINTIY

The Trinity does NOT mean:

• There are

Gods (tritheism)

• God plays three

•

is the Father

• The Holy Spirit is

4. TRUTHS OF THE TRINTIY

• Everything

about God are said of the three Persons (Eternal, Creator, Saviour, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, Infinite, Uncreated, etc)

• There is a

– denoting

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, not value, importance or power - Father (Head - sends), Son (Agent – through Him), Spirit (Executor - empowers)

1 John 4:8
“Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

• God

LOVE (not selflove / narcissism)

• God is the

/example of Communication, Community & Relationship = Three persons have always existed as the perfection of these

5. IMAGE OF THE TRINTIY

1 John 4:6-12
“⁶ Jesus Christ was revealed as God’s Son by his baptism in water and by shedding his blood on the cross … And the Spirit, who is truth, confirms it with his testimony … And God (Father) has testified about his Son. ¹⁰ All who believe in the Son of God know in their hearts that this testimony is true. Those who don’t believe this are actually calling God a liar because they don’t believe what God has testified about his Son. ¹¹ And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life.”