That was beautiful, and as Mr. Zacharias was explaining this, the Holy Spirit was confirming it to me, He was on fire within. This is the best explaination of the Trinity that I have ever heard. The Holy Spirit once gave me a simple vision to explain it when i was a new Christian. He showed me hair that was braided with 3 strands. All 3 strands were separate but equal and all part of the one head of hair. It was simple and it helped me understand! Shalom all!
Oh my goodness, Anakinconda!!! This is brilliant (of course it is, it's from God! haha) Thank you SO MUCH for sharing what God shared with you! Am going to share what you have written on my facebook timeline...This is such a wonderful illustration of the Trinity. Thank you again! God bless you...and you know, God gave this vision to you to share with the rest of the world, to help us to understand the Trinity. You have been faithful in sharing it with us! :)
I had it explained by using H2O. But then someone said that would be wrong. When I was a kid someone said H2O has 3 forms, water, steam and ice. Water is like God, steam is the holy spiritual and I’ve is Jesus. Except the trinity is all at the same time. I was told it was wrong to explain it that way for some reason. 🤷🏻♀️. Idk. I think it makes sense. It helped me.
When you hear Ravi speak so eloquently and coherently on a subject like the Trinity it is bewildering how any Jehovah's Witness, Muslim, Unitarian, Arian,etc,etc can reject it out of hand. We know that JW's are not supposed to expose themselves to Christians of any kind, so if by chance they heard Ravi in this video, regardless what they may say publicly, privately this presentation has to penetrate through the brainwashing somewhat. That's what Ravi does, he takes away falsehood in the lost one layer (presentation) at a time. He is a gift to Christianity, along with so many other teachers, evangelists, preachers, and apologists. We are so blessed in the Christian church because God has made the Gospel of Christ so relevant and supernaturally alive in unison with His Holy Word, the Bible. I believe that God grants us who are born again of the Spirit the gift of seeing clearly the Trinity, as revealed in every area of the Bible. I see the Trinity in the very first three verses of Genesis, one, two, three. 1:1 God created the heaven and earth (the Father) 1:2 The Spirit moved over the deep. (the Holy Spirit) 1:3 Then God said,"let there be light" (the WORD, the Son Jesus Christ). He spoke and that is why it is said that the Word created all things. (John 1:1-3; Col.1:15-19; Jeb. 1:1-3) Now, if you want to argue with that go right ahead, I simply point out that for those who are alive in Christ see the Trinity and specifically the Deity of Jesus jump out nearly on every page, certainly in every book. I am glad that I saw this video of Ravi, I do enjoy his ministry so much, God Bless him.
I believe that many people have read Scripture with their heads but missed the point because they forgot to read it with their hearts, too. Or they have allowed dogma from different other faiths to malign their perception of God even though the Biblical text is quite clear. 1. As Christ followers, it's silly that the NT should've presented Yeshua in the way they did without it being very deliberate. For JWs especially, they have the same Scriptures as we (though a very poor translation), yet they malign what is clearly stated. It doesn't get much more clear than John chapters 1, 2, 8 regarding HIs deity. 2. And if He is indeed God the Son & God the I AM at the same time as John 1 & 8:58 clearly attest, then we must take a closer look at the nature of GOD. 3. And if Yeshua speaks of the Holy Spirit as a Person and as Someone of Whom one can blaspheme, and if the writer of Acts attributes Personhood to the Ruach haKodesh, again, we are forced to re-examine the nature of God. 4. When we look at the above fully and conclusively, we start to make sense of OT passages wherein we see God speaking of Himself as "Us, Our" (Genesis 1, Isaiah 6). We start to make sense of Theophanies in the OT wherein God appears to humanity such as Abraham. We start to understand the passages of Daniel that speak of Christ as the Son of Man--and that this same reference in Matthew/Mark/Luke is actually an elevation of Yeshua that is tied to Daniel--in other words, that this One was and is the Divine One who will come on the clouds. We start to understand the prophesies regarding this One that would come... 5. When we see Christ accepting worship, forgiving sins, and speaking of Himself as being "greater than the Temple" and "greater than the prophets" and "Lord of the Sabbath," such items start to make sense. When He declares He Himself will raise Himself up on the third day--these all begin to make sense in light of His identity as the I AM in the midst of us. No writer of the NT would've used the language they used unless they truly wanted to teach the Church what and Who He was & is to us and to the world.
I dont think the mind body spirit thi9ng is a good way to explain the trinity No man comes to God but by His word. And no man knows the whole father, but through His spirit, The Holy Spirit, We have a knowledge of God. The Only way to The Holy Spirit is through the word of God. And Since Letter/word is at the speed of Ligth/expression in the name of The Father, The Scripture that speaks on That there are three that bare witness in heaven, The Father, The Word, and The Holy Spirit and these three are one. This scripture makes sense. But I dont believe that this teaches the trintiy. I made a new vdeio on this. I dont use the word trinity th-cam.com/video/T34CQpHYA1A/w-d-xo.html
So beautifully explained....thank you Dr. Ravi....may Our Lord Jesus continue to bless you with wisdom and use you mightily for His glory....stay blessed!!
I still AND ALWAYS WILL LOVE RAVI. He is my brother. NOTHING ever said against his behaviour WILL EVER make his words UNTRUE. GUILTY OR NOT, NOT MY DECISION. CANNOT ERASE ALL HE TAUGHT WHICH SAVED MANY PEOPLE FROM HELL.💜💜💜
Jesus is King. He beat death and he devil. We who put our faith in Christ are victorious in Him who has redeemed us. All are called, few will answer the call. Please consider Jesus and answer. Your reward will be wonderful.
I shall adore God & I shall love the Lord my God with all my heart, soul, and mind and I shall love my neighbor as myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me so I may be a part of Your wondrous creation. Amen.
Most Beautiful explanation I've ever heard this is one of the viddos that convinced me of the truth of the Holy Trinity thank you Ravi, R.I.P, we will miss you ❤
Here is real supreme logical and senseful explanation of the most high God. May God give prof. ZECHARIAH and his family with more prosperity of wisdom, peace , and knowledge. By the way, any size or measure that can be named is limited. So, the idea of presence of the Triune divine living God is beyond our limited counting system with its limited boundary. Although the Creator is one in terms of His existing identity, His speaking, love and relational , and counseling abilities had been exprinced within His Triune presence in the first place. Eg.of His Triune counseling is that when He said" let us create human in our image" and " let us confuse their languages".
Great explanation. I have heard other illustrations. The 3 stages of water(frozen, liquid and vapor), Clock with 3 needles, (x, y, z) coorinates, Atom with electron, proton, neutron.
I am an aircraft mechanic, not a Bible scholar etc., so my channel has an entirely different approach to God's Word. I have a 17 minute video that sheds some Light on this subject, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/6KPPmSK_1E0/w-d-xo.html
We have a God of mystery, and we do not need to understand everything about Him in order to have faith. The Westminster Shorter Catechism says this about the Trinity-same in substance, equal in power and glory. Ravi always does a God glorifying job. Praise God for men like him.
Brian Beck good day God is not a mystery he gives us a book of 66 chapters over 31,000 scriptures to learn about him to understand him 2nd Timothy 3:16 all scriptures are beneficial for teaching God says he is not a god of confusion but he is a god of order Psalms 83:18 Reed's Jehovah is the most high God John 3:16 Jehovah Sent His only begotten son so when Jesus says he's just the Son of God we should believe him come to know him
Brian Beck ...Yes, how can we in our finite minds expect to understand everything about God..God is infinite and immortal...And in our present state of sinfulness we cannot understand and comprehend everything about God.... When we do meet Him in the Second Coming...We will see Him.... That's what the Bible says about faith.... Hebrews 11: 1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen...
Hi, Larry...your words are true as it is God's given Word, His ultimate form of communication to us by which we can know Him...His personal character and His will. But Larry, because our existence is limited and fallible, it is impossible for us to FULLY comprehend God and His ways. This is one aspect to His AWESOMENESS. We comprehend but He is beyond our FULL comprehension. As it says in Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." And Job 36:26 "Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable." "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable," (Psalm 145:3). Paul adds to this idea, observing that "the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God,,...no one comprehends the things of God except the Spirit of God" (1 Corinthians 2:10-12). David likewise emphasizes this in his reference to God; "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it" (Psalm 139:6; cf. 17). God is so majestic, Larry! Yes, we can know Him...but COMPLETELY? I dare not arrogantly credit myself with the capability! God is limitless! There's no way, especially on this little earth with all the little green apples that God has made, that our FINITE minds could possibly fathom the INFINITE God completely. He is THAT awesome!
Easy! Genesis 1:26 GOD created us in His Own Image and Likeness. I, myself; i am 3 in 1: body, soul & spirit= but i am one. So GOD made us in His Image which is 3 in 1. why so difficult to understand that?
Shalom! I believe in trinity. You stated, "I, myself; i am 3 in 1: body, soul & spirit= but i am one. " In this case Jesus claims that he is son. God, himself; body (son), soul(father), spirit (counselor). I s it a bit of juxtaposition of the claim that you have made? :p
Reading 2 Phil 2:6-11 Brothers and sisters: Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Alleluia
I can explain the Trinity. God stated we were made in his image correct? Tell me this, is your physical body you? How about your mind? What about your soul? We are three in one just as God. Jesus is the body, the Holy Spirit is the soul and God is the mind.
but, once time jesus said before he was killed, "God.., why you leave me?". question is, who inside the body of jesus when he said that..? another soul and mind? did he ask question to himself?
Clearest definition I ever heard! And it's true...... ask God long enough about any question, and He'll eventually give you a straightforward answer! (Complex sometimes but always straightforward. 😬)
I am an aircraft mechanic, not a Bible scholar etc., so my channel has an entirely different approach to God's Word. I have a 17 minute video that sheds some Light on this subject, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/6KPPmSK_1E0/w-d-xo.html
I have always maintained a simpler explanation of the Trinity which makes sense (at least, to me). "GOD IS LIGHT". All light is one and the same light, yet passed through a prism, its three components (equal, yet separate) are revealed in 3 primary colors. All of them are light, yet they are not identical but rather completely distinct. Such is the Trinity! Three Entities, yet all the One and the same God. And without One of Them, God would not exist. -- Just as light would not exist apart from its 3 primary colors.
Or we could just read his Word: Deuteronomy 33:27 {The Father has always been} The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them. Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Jeremiah 23:24 {The Omnipresence of the Father} Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? Saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? Saith the LORD. Proverbs 15 {The omniscience of the Father } The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 1 John 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Matthew 19 {The Omnipotence of The Father} 26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Malachi 3:6 {The Immutability of the Father} For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. ============================================================ Micah 5:2 { Jesus has always been } But thou, Bethlehem Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. Matthew 18:20 {The Omnipresence of the Son} For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Ephesians 4:10 He that descended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things John 21:17 {The omniscience of the Son } He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, feed my sheep. Colossians 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Matthew 28:18 {The Omnipotence of The Son} And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Revelation 1:8, 22:13, 16 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last… I JESUS have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Hebrews 13:8 {The Immutability of the Son} Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. ============================================================ Hebrews 9:14 {The Holy Spirit has always been } 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? Hebrews 9:14 {The Omnipresence of the Spirit} 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? 1 Corinthians 2:10 {The omniscience of the Spirit} But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1 Corinthians 12:8-11 { The Omnipotence of The Spirit } For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 1 John 5:7 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. In His service,
@@natejusko486 In the beginning was Jeffrey and Jeffrey was with David and Jeffrey was David. This is how jehovah's witnesses understand the prologue of John.
I am an aircraft mechanic, not a Bible scholar etc., so my channel has an entirely different approach to God's Word. I have a 17 minute video that sheds some Light on this subject, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/6KPPmSK_1E0/w-d-xo.html
the bible says keep your spirit, soul and body blameless. all three entities of man function independently while still remaining as a member of the whole. now we are made in the image and likeness of GOD.
Worldly religious men like Ravi Zaccharias love the sound of their own voice and the sound of their many words and the sound of praise they receive for their eloquent yet verbose speeches. The truth is simple, not complex. Knowing the Father and Jesus and the Holy Spirit does not need many verbose words ... in fact no words are needed. Truth and understanding will be placed in your heart if you truly seek it from the Lord. Seek the Lord, not men! Praise Jesus.
You say these things about Ravi--yet you want those who read YOUR words to embrace what YOU are saying as "Gospel." What's the difference? Well, in the former, he's been an apologist for Christ for over three decades. I will listen to him, disagree or not, and consider what he says. To lump him with televangelists and the like is silly and has no basis in reality. In case you haven't heard, it took the Apostle Paul going to men who had not even heard of the Holy Spirit until Paul asked them, "Have you received the Holy Spirit?" Yes, we go to the LORD GOD directly, and through the Scriptures directly, but do not discount what God can speak through people who have experienced a lifetime of growth, who have experienced great pain in their lives, who can give shortcuts to life and questions about life (it's called wisdom)--and lived to tell about it because of their faith in Christ. That is called a testimony. You can disregard Ravi if you wish--that's your choice. His audience is NOT a church. It is a campus where people regard the mind. It is good that he goes there, in my opinion, and speaks in a way so many would turn to the Lord and away from anti-God (either against God or in the place of God). Incidentally, the Lord said to worship/love the LORD with all of one's heart, MIND, and strength. So Ravi, who is not a doctor (only in an honorary sense), is obeying the Lord--not trying to be like you think we should be like...but being true to the man God created him to be (obviously an intellectual). I discount a lot of what you say because you are too high-minded and too unteachable. You've already arrived, as they say (or so you think). But like the man who beats his chest pointing fingers at the sinner in the corner saying, "Thank You God I'm not like that fellow," you are, actually, probably the farthest from God's Kingdom than the people you're pointing at with accusation. Lower your opinion of yourself, I'd suggest.
PRAISED THE LORD! In the NAME of the FATHER(GOD our FATHER), in the NAME of the SON(JESUS CHRIST), and of the HOLY SPIRIT. HALLELUIAH! HALLELUIAH! HALLELUIAH AMEN. I PRAISED YOU LORD MY GOD, MY FRIEND and MY SAVIOR! YOU ARE MY SALVATION... "I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE." "COME FOLLOW ME" (JESUS) GOD IS LOVE!
Servant of Christ , praise the lord The greatest expression of love Is in the godhead, So much so that such perfect Love is Beyond understanding, God is a spirit but He has a form He has head, body, hands , feet, eyes, mouth He use His mouth to talk, He said come, speaking to The godhead let us make man. He use his hands to form Adam out of the Dust He use his Finger to Write the Ten Commandments On tables of stones on mount Sinai, Though He is a Divine Being, But He has personality. The bible talked about the Mind of God. And if God is Love Then He has a Heart and because He Has a heart, He knows it's Not Good For Man to be Alone, Because man was made In His image, and human beings heart desire love and companionship. That means He Dose not Like loneliness, That's why He Made us That one day we will be with Him. God need companionship, That's why He made Man In His Image. He said the church is His Bride, he is Love, He share Love. God is comfort , and He gives comfort, You can't SEPERATE God from his word but for the plan Of salvation the operation is divided, the responsibility is shared. That's love, the Fathers roll is different from the son who is The word, the Holy Spirit working is different, He works On the hearts and minds of mankind, To connect humanity With divinity. The word which is also spirit and life was always with God, John 1:1and is God, we do not have to fight against him He is who the bible say he is. Also the Holy Spirit whom the world cannot receive. The word is spirit as well as the word is life, When the word took on form, He came to us In the likeness of a man, we beheld His Glory We called him JESUS . So easy, and yet such mystery, That's GOD! Amen Thank you Father son and Holy Spirit . The gospel is simple . People turn away from the clear simplicity of The gospel and turn to fables.. . The oneness people say the father do everything he is the one who even Hang on the tree, he make a shell which is JESUS and Put himself into the shell JESUS. . Undermining the clear simple teaching of Truth In the scriptures. There was never a time when God was by himself John1:1 said the word was with him God is love and share love in the godhead The word which is spirit and have life in himself Was with him in the biggining , Also the Holy Spirit who is a silent listener If not, THEN JOHN 1:1 DOSENT make any sense And I know it makes perfect sense. Also all the other scriptures. Amen..
Got to listen to the talk by Ravi Z several times, and one Can gain a sense of the importance and rationality of what he is saying, even if one is by no means a student of philosophy🥺. Once he gets to the matter of relationship communication and Love we can begin to cotton on a bit! Still, there’s both “Majesty and Mystery” (RZ) in the entire concept of the Trinity!
I love my local pastor at my church, he explains it in a very simple way, he explains that trinity is more like a role that God does in this vast universe. imagine yourself a happily married man, that are blessed with children and lovely wife, and also still have a loving parents. Now if you look at this, your roles will be different. When you relate to your own parents, then you relate to them as their son, same thing when you approach and relate to your own children then in this case, you relate to them as their dad/father. Also with your wife, you will relate yourself to her as her husband. Now does this mean there are three of you? of course not there is still one you only, never been three, but the roles that you take are indeed three. Same thing with Trinity ( Father, Son and Holy Spirit).. As you know family is the smallest unit in society that God created. I think family analogy is the perfect example to explain the relationship between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This explanation makes more sense to me, especially for simple minded people. No disrespect to Ravi, but I think his explanation is bit more complex and can be bit hard to grasp, but again it's just my personal opinion.
Sorry to shock you, the real trinity explanation is each person Father, Son and Holy Spirit is distinct (each having self-consciousness) hence it cannot be explained using role. The concept of role is still Modalism explanation, only having one consciouness, i.e one-being.
Nice 👍 Hindu Islam Christian Jew Atheist Rich Poor Sick Healthy Buddhist All have to answer to our lord Jesus Christ. The greatest thing the devil has done is made people believe he doesn’t exist... Keep jesus in your heart people! Amen 🙏
Ravi Ravi Ravi lol. Excellent insight. Explained poetically, with simplicity. Let us pray for wisdom, for God gives liberally to ALL who ask. Do u know this is a prayer we as Christians can pray every day. blessings multiplied..
Thanks for your comment and question. Appreciate you stopping by. Jesus said, "Go therefore in the Name (singular) of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." And this is one of many such passages. Fact: to deny Tri-unity of God usually results in a denial of the deity of Christ (which is evident throughout the Bible). And if you're oneness believing Jesus is Father, is Son, is Holy Spirit, you open up a whole different can of worms. Jesus said, "I will send Another like Me." Jesus said of the Spirit one can speak against the Son and it be forgiven; but to speak against the Holy Spirit, it would not be forgiven--in this world or the world to come. There is a stark difference between the Son and the Spirit. And to Whom was Jesus praying to...and to Whom did He commit His spirit when He died (to go into Hades)? It was the Father. Fact: deny the Tri-unity of God, you deny common sense interpretations of the Scripture and the correct understanding of the nature of GOD. You won't find the word Trinity in the Bible. Thank God it's not written out. There is a mystery to the Creator--one that must be understood by the Spirit and the Word (the Scriptures, the Bible). Many words are not found in the Bible that are still valid: Incarnation; Rapture, etc. God bless! Sean
Do not know if Ravi would agree with this. But I have a simple illustration. You have a simple apple. The apple has seeds inside the white inner fruit and the Red outter skin. All 3 parts make up one apple. Different purpose, different taste. Can separate all 3 . yet you can not have an apple without all 3 becoming one. Makes perfect sense to me. Now just imagine if A small minded person as myself can understand this, what can the infinate mind of God be.
Isaiah 53:5, he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed. For salvation, people just need to follow the way they did it in Acts? They were baptized in the water and of the spirit. Here's why! The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. If we are to follow him, we must do the same thing. Death= repentance, Burial = baptism, and resurrection = being filled and rising again from the dead. That's what Acts 2:38 is. We must obey the gospel, 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus Christ... Matthew 7:21-23, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven; but he that DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER which is in Heaven. St John 3:3-5, EXCEPT a man be born of WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD. We can't come up with our own gospel. Galatians 1:8-9, But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Don't be cursed. One way for all people. Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritan. Our salvation has to match-up with the scriptures and no scriptures on the subject can be taken away. Eternity is TOOO long to be WRONG! st John 5:39, Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. The gospels show what Christ has done on the cross for us. The book of Acts shows us the beginning of Christ's Church and how to enter the Church, obeying Acts 2:38. The letters were written to the Church to show us how to behave now that we are born again into the Church. It's better to walk alone than to walk with a crowd going in the wrong direction. Are we supposed to follow the teachings of the apostles? Acts 2:42, They continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrines. Ephesians 2:20, We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. If you believe in this message, help spread it in the name of Jesus Christ. God bless you!
"But in the one true God and Trinity it is naturally true not only that God is one but also that he is a Trinity, for the reason that the true God himself is a Trinity of Persons and one in nature. Through this natural unity the whole Father is in the Son and in the Holy Spirit, and the whole Holy Spirit, too, is in the Father and in the Son. None of these is outside any of the others; because no one of them precedes any other of them in eternity or exceeds any other in greatness, or is superior to any other in power"
The unity of the trinity I believe can also be expressed by the science of mathematics. Mathematics is an exact science. 1+1 always equals 2. 2+2 always equals 4. Since the G-d head is a unity in diversity you can not “add to it: 1+1+1=3. You must multiply it by itself: 1x1x1= “1”. 3 individual units multiplied by themselves. You just have to use the correct mathematical formula. You would think people would see this more easily since you cannot add to G-d since He is One!!
Michael Regan Are you doing anything by calling God "G-d". God is a definition of who and what YHWH is. YHWH or Yahway or rather Yahodvah (Jahovah) is his name that the Jews sought to obscure by omitting vowels. And the reason was to protect God's name.
Michael Regan we dont live in a time that we need to obscure God's name. We WANT people to know God. The Hebrews did not want people to speak God's name. Orthodox Jews today still avoid using God's name in conversation (his name) not the word God.
I am an aircraft mechanic, not a Bible scholar etc., so my channel has an entirely different approach to God's Word. I have a 17 minute video that sheds some Light on this subject, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/6KPPmSK_1E0/w-d-xo.html
Amen, Papa! :) People complicate Scriptural truths that reveal His Personhood. Even science says that reality as we know it is made up by 13 dimensions? Is it so difficult to imagine that God who is infinite in dimensions would take the form of a Man, Christ Jesus, Messiah of the world, dying for the world, and teach us through example, and then in word? Thanks for watching, Papa! God bless you and yours! -Sean Elliot Russell
Trinity is H2O, The Father is Solid, Son is Liquid, and the Spirit is Gaseous State. Son is self-awareness of God about God itself like a child grows up to know himself (analogy). The SON is what Avicenna calls the First-Intellect that emanates in a procession of self-consciousness.
The Meaning of One 1Co 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is ONE Spirit. The Spirit is God's essence. Spirit is what God is, and the Spirit He is is the Holy Spirit. That is the missing key to understanding "the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The reason the Father and the Son are One is because they are the Holy Spirit. This scripture makes it plain. The Spirit is also how we are one in them when we believe. Ro 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but IN THE SPIRIT, if so be that THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. Now if any man have not THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, he is none of his. 10 ¶ And if CHRIST be IN YOU, the body is dead because of sin; but THE SPIRIT IS LIFE because of righteousness. 11 But if THE SPIRIT OF HIM THAT RAISED UP JESUS from the dead DWELL IN YOU, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by HIS SPIRIT THAT DWELLETH IN YOU. Ro 12:5 So WE, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST, and every one members one of another. 1Co 10:17 For we being many are ONE BREAD, and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that ONE BREAD. 1Co 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. In the exact same way, Jesus said,... Joh 10:30 I AND my Father ARE ONE. Joh 17:11 ¶ 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: (IN THE SAME WAY) Joh 17:20 ¶ Neither pray I for these alone, but for THEM ALSO WHICH SHALL BELIEVE IN ME through their word; 21 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. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that THEY MAY BE ONE, AS WE ARE ONE: (IN THE SAME WAY) 23 I IN THEM AND THOU IN ME, that they may be made perfect IN ONE; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Joh 17:24 ¶ Father, I WILL THAT THEY ALSO, WHOM THOU HAS GIVEN ME, BE WITH ME WHERE I AM; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for THOU LOVEDST ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I IN THEM. Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another COMFORTER, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for HE DWELLETH WITH YOU, AND SHALL BE IN YOU. 18 ¶ I will not leave you comfortless: I WILL COME TO YOU. Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and WE WILL COME UNTO HIM, AND MAKE OUR ABODE WITH HIM. Jesus comes to us in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit doesn't leave them, it emanates from them. That is how God is omnipresent. His Spirit permeates every place in heaven and earth. Joh 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Mt 7:7 ¶ Ask, and it shall be given you; Lu 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? In the book of Revelation, in the last two chapters, where it talks about the new heaven and the new earth, we find no mention of the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit is there, in the Father and the Son. What we do see is a river of life flowing out of the throne. Re 22:1 ¶ And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. Joh 7:37 ¶ In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) Joh 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Trinity isn’t a good explanation of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Look at these references to the Holy Spirit. These are from the kjv. Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, the Spirit, Spirit of God, Spirit of Jesus Christ, Spirit of the Lord , Spirit of Christ, Spirit of the living God, Spirit of our God, Spirit of your Father, holy Spirit of God, Spirit which is of God, Spirit of His Son, his Holy Spirit, My Spirit, His Spirit, the Lord is that Spirit, Spirit of grace, holy Spirit of promise, Spirit of adoption, Spirit of life in Christ, Spirit of life from God, the Spirit itself. The way the Spirit is described in the scripture as being "of God" and "of His Son" and being "His Spirit", it doesn't sound like a third person. I don't think the Spirit is a third person. I think it is what God is. Just as you and I are human beings, the Father and Son are Holy Spirit. Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Spirit is what God is, and the Spirit He is is the Holy Spirit. Php 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
God is Love......He is the Source, the Word, and the Wisdom........ that in the beginning of time itself, united in His nature since the start He is All Knowing.....yet what or who do He knew since creation of all things that were and are and will be?.... He knows Himself through His reflection, the very definition of Himself through His Son......being a reflection of God Himself, He embodies God and is the absolute image of God and spirit of God, all that God is is the Son.....the God Knows the Son and speaks with Him, He loves His Son in the beginning of all.....the shared Love between them is the very nature of God Himself and is Love, for God is Love Himself, therefore the shared Love between the Father and the Son is Love and is God. God is Love. God is Love in His very nature and divinity. We may not fully know Him and grasp His nature or understand His divinity, therefore placing us in humility before His infiniteness and possibilities, making God beyond us all yet encompassing through us as the Spirit of God is with us, therefore the Son is with us and the Father is with us as we are all in the Son, the Spirit, and the Father Himself, God Himself. God in His nature is beyond reason, beyond math, beyond human concept of number and counting.....He shouldn't be understood fully for He is beyond dimensions of our world, He is beyond our existence, our ideas, our counting, our logic, or philosophy....... but no matter how God is so hard to understand, He chose to show Himself through His Son and He showed unto us as the Spirit and He spoke and is caring us as the Father like a being encompassing and beyond time and space and our dimension who then came down to our dimension so we can be close to Him who is Love Himself for we always do seek love and belongingness. A God incomprehensible and beyond all our existence came for us and went down for us to our own reality and dimension shows that He loves us and cares about us since the beginning He created the world and us, even until we broke away from Him. He never ended loving us. He is God. God is Love. He is beyond , yet with us, yet within us all those with faith and good will. He is beyond anyone's understanding, yet He tried to come down so we can understand Him in His majesty and mystery. :)
"Do not consider only the goodness of God, but consider His SEVERITY as well. Otherwise, you will also be cut off." - Paul It is very wrong for Christians to go around talking about 'God is love' as it that is His only nature. God is WRATH as well! His very name is JEALOUS! You people are creating an IMAGE of God that YOU want, not one that is representative of HIM. Wesernized Churchianity, not ancient Christianity, cause there is no such thing as "God is Love full stop" and not also mention His terror. "The FEAR of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" "FEAR Him." "All who sin against Me I WILL blot out of My Book!" "Knowing the TERROR of the Lord, we persuade men" Why do you think the Apostles said that? Its' becaue they know the reality of HELL and the ETERNAL DAMNATION that they tried to persuade men against sin. Is God love? Yes. Yes He is. But He is also WRATH and JUDGMENT and VENGENCE.
I do agree that balance is needed. We shouldn't go to one extreme or another--except to say that Yeshua is the only way to God. But as believers in Him, we should give warning to people but make sure our message is, indeed, "Good News," not bad news or condemning news. We have been given a message of RECONCILIATION, that God's wrath has been poured out on His Son so that anyone who puts their trust in HIm will not know or experience God's wrath/condemnation. "God so loved the world" cannot be minimalized. Yet the verses that follow speak of His condemnation resting on those what do not look to the Son. So balance is needed.
this really helps when ministering to muslims..since in the natural they cannot understand..even if they do personally..to us they have to hold true to there belief ..since they are in denial..they feel they must hold to the koran..yet the Bible is and will always hold true ..in Jesus mighty name.. amen
OK, let's take a look at what you are attempting to say. What is "The Constantine lie"? The Church teaches what God revealed for mankind. Why are you having a problem with that unless you believe that truth does not matter? The Nicene - Constantinople Creed was formulated at Nicea in 325 A. D. and Constantinople in 381 A. D. You "Sabbath keepers" keep accusing Christians of worshiping some sun god, yet, I could simply level the same claim against you. Since the Sabbath falls between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday, let's look at the history of the names of those days. The name Friday comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ, meaning the "day of Frige", a result of an old convention associating the Old English goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures. The same holds for Frīatag in Old High German, Freitag in Modern German, and vrijdag in Dutch. So, on Friday, you are worshiping the goddess Frigg and the goddess Venus. Saturday is named after the planet Saturn, which in turn was named after the Roman god Saturn. So, there you have it. You want Christians to worship two female and one male pagan deities. There are a lot of words in Christianity that are used to explain a theological concept. It does not mean that they are inherently wrong. God is not to be worshiped? You refer to the New Testament, yet, you take issue against those people called by God whom you claim to know. The early Christians professed that Jesus is God well before Nicea. Nicea just upheld what was already taught because Arius was teaching heresy.
Theophilus of Antioch "It is the attribute of God, of the most high and almighty and of the living God, not only to be everywhere, but also to see and hear all; for he can in no way be contained in a place. . . . The three days before the luminaries were created are types of the Trinity: God, his Word, and his Wisdom" (To Autolycus 2:15 [A.D. 181]).
Origen "For we do not hold that which the heretics imagine: that some part of the being of God was converted into the Son, or that the Son was procreated by the Father from non-existent substances, that is, from a being outside himself, so that there was a time when he [the Son] did not exist" (The Fundamental Doctrines 4:4:1 [A.D. 225]). "No, rejecting every suggestion of corporeality, we hold that the Word and the Wisdom was begotten out of the invisible and incorporeal God, without anything corporal being acted upon . . . the expression which we employ, however that there was never a time when he did not exist is to be taken with a certain allowance. For these very words ‘when’ and ‘never’ are terms of temporal significance, while whatever is said of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is to be understood as transcending all time, all ages" (ibid.). "For it is the Trinity alone which exceeds every sense in which not only temporal but even eternal may be understood. It is all other things, indeed, which are outside the Trinity, which are to be measured by time and ages" (ibid.).
What aspect causes the other in your life, Happiness causes truth or truth causes Happiness? Consequently: What aspect comes first in your daily life routine, Happiness or truth? Selflessly, Ps. Truth cannot be relative or as a preference/opinion (right/wrong), but it must transcend time. Therefore, truth is in actuality absolute; never changes. The absolute truth is fundamentally visible within nature via the patterns in reason but do you see/know the patterns that allow discernment to see/know it? Therefore, matter as neither created/destroyed identifies the 1st Cause of everything created in existence starting with/as the 3 in 1 perfectly infinite coded pattern as Actuality of "matter"/"Hope"/"God." Ultimately, every human pursues "Happiness" first in all they do, but what precedes/causes "Happiness" other than the actuality of the absolute truth? _Eternal Optimism (Pattern Qualification) facebook.com/notes/eternal-optimism/eo-qualifications/10151955717990720/
Oh that's why Jesus commanded us true love our neighbor as ourselves. Because true love is being yourself as an equal to the next person. So how can God create on Earth the expression of a love relationship if it is not already a part of who he is?
Amen! Now THAT is a much much much better explanation, not to mention simpler explanation, than the one that Ravi Zaccharias gave. The truth is simple!! Worldly religious men love the sound of their own voice and of their many words and of the praises they receive from men rather than speaking a simple and truthful explanation. God bless you firecloud77 The truth is with you, Jesus is with you! Praise Jesus.
And why do our Muslim friends find it so improbable/impossible for God to come in the midst of us? Do you reject the OT accounts of the LORD GOD coming in a form and appearing to Abraham? To Adam? To Moses? To the prophets? So why should it be so incredible (though it really truly is incredible), that He should fulfill Scripture and come to the world as one of us? 1. Consider that this One was the Last Adam, made as the first Adam, being perfect and sinless (unlike the rest of humanity). This explains His birth--born of a woman but not from the seed of a man. Through the work of God's Spirit, Mary conceives this very special Child. He comes not to face one temptation but to face all temptations. He comes to regain the dominion lost by the first Adam. He comes to reverse the Fall of the first Adam. He comes to open Eden (so we might walk with God) rather than to close up Eden and place sentries there. He comes to destroy the works of a ramphant enemy--instead of inviting the enemy by disregarding God's words. 2. Consider that this One would come as a Man, yet in His nature be God. However, as God in the flesh, He did not use His deity to any advantage. All of His power, His gifts, HIs wisdom, His works was due to His allegiance to the Father and by the power of the Holy Spirit. 3. Consider that when Christ died on the Cross, God did not die--for death is not a cessation of existence but a gateway to the next realm... I suspect His Lordship did not cease whatsoever when His body expired upon that tree. 4. Consider that when Yeshua calls the Father "My God and My Father," such a statement does not mean that that means He believes HImself not to be God/I AM THAT I AM. He speaks as the Servant--the most humble Man Who ever lived. And, as a Man, He could speak of His Father being Father/God without contradiction to His own nature. 5. Regarding the Son not knowing the day or the hour, I'd say that was true at the time He spoke those words--but such is not true from the moment He returned to Glory. Again He is speaking of Himself as the Servant/Last Adam. 6. And if Muhammad was incorrect about the Cross/Resurrection of Christ which both secular history and biblical history attest, what other things is he incorrect? If he got the event wrong in the natural, what of the heavenly things might he have got completely wrong? If Muslims are honest and look past the lens of their dogma, they might start to question what they believe regarding God's nature and, indeed, what we must do to truly please God. I can say it is not repeating a repetitious prayer five times a day... It is calling upon the Name of the One Crucified and RIsen, that One Who reverses the curse of Adam. Only in Him can we be saved and truly start to live. -Sean
What if, The Father is the highest, the untouchable; the Son is he's touchable form, reachable to human beings; and the Holy Spirit is the link between the 2, the rope that allows us to have a connection with the Father. What if?
If they consider word trinity, the father, the son and the Holy Spirit are equal to each other, then for me it is wrong. I believe they are same God but they are not equal in their being. The father is higher than the son. They can't be equal.
What do we understand by a Trinitarian God. In the Christian faith the Trinitarian God means three persons in one God. The person referred here should not be understood as human person but rather a divine person. It means there are three divine entity in one God. It can be termed as singularity in plurality. The Trinity as understood by Christians is God, the Spirit of God and the Word of God. They appear as three entity but is only one God. In order to have a simple understanding we can take a comparison with the Sun. Sun is not God but a created object. It is used here just for understanding. The Sun similarly has three entities viz. The Sun, its heat and its light. Inspite of the three entities we still say one Sun and not three Suns. Similarly God has three entities God, Word of God and Spirit of God and yet one God. Further we see the power of the heat of the Sun is inside the Sun and at the same time the heat is also on earth when the Sun shines. It show some what its omnipotence. Similarly we see the light of the Sun, which is within the Sun and at the same time is present on the earth where it shines. This show its omnipresence. God in a similar manner but much more portently becomes omnipotent and omnipresent. It is an all knowing God who is the creator of all things and who is everlasting. He has used the other two entities to achive the purpose of creation. He was God, He is God and will remain God. I am sure you have now understood the concept of God as One God comprising of three entities. Christians therefore believe in only One God which means monotheism. Let not the devil fool you with his half lies and irrational arguments.
Some say, Trinity is 1 +1+1=3... I say Trinity is 1×1×1=1. Because Isaiah 9:6 says it. The Son is the Everlasting Father. God was God before, now, and forever. The same God before the world was, the same God who dwelt with man in the flesh, and the same God who's spirit is Holy(Holy Spirit). And he gave it to us all who believed in Jesus. And that he lives within us all Christians. God's power has no limit. All Glory to Jesus our King, Amen!.
I think his explanation is great. To the educated, which is who he is addressing here(a given). But I have found a more common explanation for the average person. Most people would agree to believe in some sort of essence to Life(soul or spirit, or even consciousness)....meaning you can get them to agree to that point, yet their soul or spirit is linked inextricably to themselves, and they wouldn’t consider themselves to have a multi-personality disorder. The Bible claims the very image of God himself is imprinted in the creation of man. We have a body(linked in the physical realm, and a spirit or/and or soul is one with ourselves, yet is in touch with the spiritual realm or dimension. If people do understand the nature of God, they cannot even have a right sense of self identity in this life. If someone cannot understand their own existence and identity, how could they ever have a right understanding God and his identity.
Yeshua is the Son of God not the Father the Father Created THROUGH Jesus Jesus is not the Father or you make Him a liar saying that He is not the Son of God and you make the Father a liar by sending His own voice from Heaven testifying that JESUS IS HIS SON Jesus was with the Father before the earth was but there was a time when Jesus was brought out FROM the Father just the Father showed us this when He created through Jesus Adam and Eve, He formed Adam and Eve was OF ADAM Being the Son of the LIVING GOD does not make Him any less than being equal to God but it does not mean they are 2 gods for to us Jesus is a God because His nature is GOD our nature is MAN He has the nature of His Father but not the personality of His Father. Jesus is the Holy Spirit in Spiritual form, the Spirit is given to Jesus as a sign of glorification Jesus was anointed by the Father just at the baptism when He started His mission Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him. Jesus spoke about the Spirit that it will be Him coming to us but in another form yet people made of it another story because they do not want to read the Bible the way it reads but in the eyes of others. John 7 39 He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. Jesus had to be GLORIFIED what happened on His Glorification? Acts 3:13-26 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. Jesus was Glorified on the day of Pentecost and glorified His disciples by giving them Himself as a gift the Spirit of Jesus is the presence of the Father and the very life of Jesus, when we have Jesus in us through His Spirit we die to self and give Him to live in us 2 Thessalonians 1:10 10 When he shall come to be glorified IN HIS SAINTS, and to be admired IN ALL them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. Colossians 1:27 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ IN YOU, the hope of glory Ephesians 3:17 17 That Christ may dwell IN YOUR HEARTS by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, Galatians 4:19 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed IN YOU, Galatians 2:20 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth IN ME: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME Galatians 1:15-16 15 But when it pleased God, Who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace, 16 To reveal his Son IN ME, that I might preach Him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood John 14:22 22 Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and WE will come to him and make OUR home with him. Jesus is our father in new creation because THROUGH HIM WE BECOME SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE FATHER BECAUSE HE IS THE ONLY INHERITED SON OF HIS FATHER AND BECAUSE HE INHERITED ALL FROM HIS FATHER AND HE HAS BOTH NATURES MAN AND DIVINE THE FATHER COULD RECONCILE THE WORLD THROUGH JESUS TO HIMSELF after the world sinned and was unable to have eternal life this is why Jesus is the mediator this is why BY HIS NAME ONLY WE CAN REACH THE FATHER Because He is the Son of God sent to us by the Father to redeem us through His blood John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son that whoever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. if we do not believe in the Fatherhood of the Father and the Son-ship of the Son the Bible tells us we do not know God and we cannot have everlasting life 1 John 2:22-26 22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the FATHER AND THE SON. 23 Whosoever denieth THE SON, the same hath not THE FATHER: he that acknowledgeth THE SON hath the FATHER ALSO. 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue IN THE SON, AND IN THE FATHER. 25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. 1 John 5:12 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life if you really have the Son you will have the Father because the Father and the Son are not one being but they are 2 DISTINCT BEINGS and the Father is IN CHRIST as Jesus is IN us and He told us be ye ONE EVEN AS MY FATHER AND I ARE ONE are we one? we are many but HE MEANT UNITY in purpose and will and target John 17:21 21 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. 22 And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, EVEN AS WE are one: Jesus was very clear when He said the Father is His God He did it before crucifiction and after crucifiction in Revelation 3 He calls the Father MY GOD IN ONE VERSE 4 TIMES Jesus said My Father is Greater than me The Bible clearly states that Jesus is the head of man and man is the head of the woman and God is the Head of Christ the Jews killed Him because He said that HE IS THE SON OF GOD satan doubted His Son-Ship telling Him twice "IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD" The Father sent His voice twice to the earth and all the disciples witnessed when He said "THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED" Jews persecuted Him for saying that He is the Son of God because they knew that making of Himself the Son of God will make Him equal to God Peter's first confession was : YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD when Jesus healed the Blind they kicked him our of the synagogue and Jesus asked him "DO YOU BELIEVE ON THE SON OF GOD?" Paul's first preach was about JESUS THE SON OF GOD Jesus was not saying that His Father is Greater than Him out of humbleness because HE DOES NOT LIE HE WAS SAYING THE TRUTH when Jesus was on the cross the pharisees were saying HE SAID THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD LET HIM SAVE HIM HE SAID HE LOVES HIM Jesus the SON OF GOD was against Jesus Barabbas (BAR MEANS SON ABBA MEANS THE FATHER) the Bible is clear that the SON OF GOD WAS STANDING NEXT TO THE son of the devil. Barabba is the son of his father the murderer which is satan this was not by coincidence nothing is by coincidence when Jesus died the first conclusion was "INDEED HE IS THE SON OF GOD" Jesus' Son-ship is being destroyed by satan, people now believe in trinity, a doctrine which does not exist in the Bible at the year of 325 it was made by the Nicene creed and accepted by the church when nowhere the Bible says they are 3 persons sure the Bible lists that there is THE FATHER THERE IS THE SON AND THERE IS THE HOLY SPIRIT but not as the Nicene creed explains it the Father is the Father the actual Father of Jesus His Only Begotten Son and the Spirit is theirs and they both have it, it is from the Father in the Mediator His Son our Lamb and through the Lamb in us because it is the Spirit of the FATHER AND THE SON and when their Spirit comes in us they both come through it in the Spiritual form and this is the meaning of the word ALLOS when Jesus was talking about Himself in another form and He explained it but because people are so blinded by men's doctrines they wouldn't take it seriously we have been deceived, without the Son the ACTUAL SON we can never have the Father Who reconciled the world to Himself Through His Only Begotten Son 1 Corinthians 8:6King James Version (KJV) 6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and Hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the Word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For He Hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. Jesus always told us that He came FROM HIS Father A.N.D HIS FATHER sent Him TO US John 7:29 - John 8:42 - John 16:27-30 John 17:8 Proverbs 30:4 (tells us that God has a Son) Proverbs 30:4 4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell? compare proverbs 30:4 with John 3:13-17 (you will understand) Daniel 3:25-28 tells us that God has a Son through Nebuchadnezzar Jesus is the Son of God, all the churches say that Jesus is the Son of God but reject it with their doctrines : Catholics: Jesus is the ETERNAL Son of the Father a son can never be an actual Son if He was with the Father at the same time the SON CAME FORTH FROM THE FATHER AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS TOLD US some protestant churches claim that Jesus is the Father and in saying this they deny the FATHER - SON RELATIONSHIP SAYING IT WAS ROLES PLAYING, MY QUESTION IS: DID JESUS LIE? THE FATHER SENT HIS OWN VOICE, THIS IS SERIOUS. READ 1 CORINTHIANS 8:6
To explain the Trinity we have to address; 'Let us make Man in our own image'. That is not one Essence talking to Himself. That is a plurality of God. Therefore, the Trinity is made up of three distinct Spirits. The Father. The Son. The Holy Ghost. These three are One God in the sense of spiritual perfection. DIVINE. Now i shall explain how it works. The Will of the Father carried out by the Son through the Power of the Holy Spirit. Simple. How many clergymen have told you that?. We don't need leaders who withold the truth from us.
I like your words, Mark. In all matters, the Father's will is completed through the agency of the Son (Creation, Salvation, Judgement, Kingdom, even our very identity as His Body/Bride) through the power of the Holy Spirit. And when the Son operates, He operates/operated by the will of the Father through the power of the Holy Spirit. And when the Spirit speaks (of which He does quite extensively throughout the O&NT), He is speaking according to the will of the Father through the authority/Name of Jesus. It's really not that difficult unless people want to malign the Deity of the Son and the Personhood of the Holy Spirit. -Sean
In the beginning God. (1) and God said (spoke the word...refer John 1... and the word became flesh ) (2) Gen 1:2 And the Spirit (3) of God moved upon the face of the waters. So God spoke the word and through the power in His word (Holy Spirit) all things were made.
You don't need leaders AT ALL!!!! You don't need preachers or clergymen or evangelists!!! YOU HAVE THE BIBLE!!! And more importantly YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT!!! And don't forget WISDOM!! All these people who expect men of this world to spoon feed the scriptures. Stop being lazy Christians and start STUDYING the bible for yourselves!!!
Mark Rymanowski Some say, Trinity is 1 +1+1=3... I say Trinity is 1×1×1=1. Because Isaiah 9:6 says it. The Son is the Everlasting Father. God was God before, now, and forever. The same God before the world was, the same God who dwelt with man in the flesh, and the same God who's spirit is Holy(Holy Spirit). And he gave it to us all who believed in Jesus. And that he lives within us all Christians. God's power has no limit. All Glory to Jesus our King, Amen
The Christ came as one of us--He being the exact representation of His Being (Heb 1:1-3). We must remember that He came, chiefly, as the Last Adam to undo the dead works of the First Adam. And to become the Eternal Sacrifice in so doing. That said, He also was the Word that dwelt among us (John 1:1-3, 14)--the only begotten Son of the Father. Although He was GOD, He came also as a Man. And don't forget, many occasions in the OT the LORD appeared to persons who were not struck dead. But yes, if we stand before Him in His unrestrained holiness, we would melt standing there. -Sean
This sounds like a very profound and complex explanation of the Godhead. I like the part about love in the Godhead. However the simple biblical explanation of the Godhead is this: There Is One God, His Word And His Spirit There is God the Father, his Word is his Son Jesus who is the Christ and his Spirit is the Holy Spirit. And being God's Word and God's Spirit they are both obviously also God.
김패티면순28분 전(1John2:24 ) Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father(Gen1:26)Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness
You can. I also thought it was complex when I first heard it. But having listened to it repeatedly, its beauty and common sense view--despite all critical responses--is worth reflecting on. God bless you, Boy!
Wow, you're part of a Foursquare body of believers? :) That's great! I went to a Foursquare College in USA! Such a great church and ambitious body of believers! Kamusta kayo po, Boy?
Yeah, Foursquare have very simple explanation of Trinity. Don't need to be apologetic. Trinity in God's creation like egg: 1) Egg Shell, 2) Egg White, and 3) Egg Yoke: One Egg in Three. Another example is man: created in the image of God: composed of body, soul, and spirit: three in one. 1 John 5:7 King James Version (KJV) 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
i HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR Mr. Ravi......however he sometimes answers a question that's pretty simple,.....with a long ,long explanation that a lot of people do not understand and kind of get lost. We know what the Holy Trinity is.........The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,.....what is the origin,or how it came to be?.......Well......some things we are NOT prepared to know yet,.......When God decides when we should know,....He will let us know...Some questions are too ridiculous to ask, and also to answer,....because no one really knows.
There is no understanding of God, if one can't understand the love b/w father and the son. The father loves the son and the son loves the father. The father loves us that he even sacrificed the son, which he loves the most so that we all could be living with him. Its all about love and love only.
The way I understood the Trinity, bible said that we are created in his own image right?, we all know that human consist of body, spirit and soul, therefore God the Father, son and the holy spirit is God's unique way of existence just like human existing in body, soul and spirit , paying more attention to God's existence bcoz bible said that " he that is above is above all" , in revelation 1:, when the personality of Christ was revealed to john he said that " he is like the son of man, but there were other features he saw all together that differnciated him from human.God bless us all.Jesus is coming spoon....
Deuteronomy 33:27 {The Father has always been} The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them. Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Jeremiah 23:24 {The Omnipresence of the Father} Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? Saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? Saith the LORD. Proverbs 15 {The omniscience of the Father } The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 1 John 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Matthew 19 {The Omnipotence of The Father} 26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Malachi 3:6 {The Immutability of the Father} For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. ============================================================ Micah 5:2 { Jesus has always been } But thou, Bethlehem Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. Matthew 18:20 {The Omnipresence of the Son} For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Ephesians 4:10 He that descended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things John 21:17 {The omniscience of the Son } He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, feed my sheep. Colossians 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Matthew 28:18 {The Omnipotence of The Son} And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Revelation 1:8, 22:13, 16 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last… I JESUS have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Hebrews 13:8 {The Immutability of the Son} Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. ============================================================ Hebrews 9:14 {The Holy Spirit has always been } 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? Hebrews 9:14 {The Omnipresence of the Spirit} 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? 1 Corinthians 2:10 {The omniscience of the Spirit} But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1 Corinthians 12:8-11 { The Omnipotence of The Spirit } For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 1 John 5:7 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. In His service,
Isaiah 42:848:11-12 {God will never share his glory} I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, and I will not give my glory unto another. I am he; I am the first, I also am the Last. Revelation 1: 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was and which is to come, the Almighty. Philippians 2:5-7 {of what did he empty himself} Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man: {The Greek reads as follows} Who in form of God subsisting not rapinesteemed it to be equal with god; but himself emptied. John 14:28 {Jesus in human form occupies a lower position then the Father} "You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.'" Hebrews 2:9 {Jesus Humbled himself while walking among us} But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone Galatians 4:4 {Jesus set aside his divine nature to be born as a human} But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, John 17:5 {God shares his glory} {of his right to exercise his deity} And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. Matthew 28:18 {which he takes up after the resurrection} And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power {authority} is given (surrendered) unto me in heaven and in earth. Revelation 1: 11-14, 22:13, 16 {now Jesus takes his rightful position} 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: … 12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;… 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last… > have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. Revelation 1:17-18 {John states Jesus is the First and the Last?} And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, fear not; I am the first and last: I am he that liveth, and was…………….. Dead, and, behold, I am alive for evermore, A-men; and have the keys of hell and of death …..When did the First and the Last (GOD), the Beginning and the End (GOD), the Alpha and Omega (GOD) taste death? Matthew 26:53 (Jesus was obedient to what was prophesied) Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way? Daniel 7:13-14, (Daniel fore saw all this) In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.” …..This explains how Jesus created all Hebrews 1:10 {The Father tells us the SON created all} And, Thou, Lord, {kurios} in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. Colossians 1:16-17 {Jesus created all things} In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him. And for him: And he is before all things. And by him all things consist. John 1:1, 2,3,14 {John states} All things through him came into being, and without him came into being not even one [thing] which has come into being. And the Word flesh became, and tabernacled among us, Isaiah 42:544:22 {God created all things} Psalm 104:5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heaven alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; Who laid the foundations of the earth, Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord God! Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: In His Service,
The best explanation of the nature of the God Head is the Holy Spirits explanation. Isaiah 42:8 48:11-12 {God will never share his glory} I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, and I will not give my glory unto another. I am he; I am the first, I also am the Last. Revelation 1: 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was and which is to come, the Almighty. Philippians 2:5-7 {of what did he empty himself} Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man: {The Greek reads as follows} Who in form of God subsisting not rapinesteemed it to be equal with god; but himself emptied. John 14:28 {Jesus in human form occupies a lower position then the Father} "You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.'" Hebrews 2:9 {Jesus Humbled himself while walking among us} But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone Galatians 4:4 {Jesus set aside his divine nature to be born as a human} But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, John 17:5 {God shares his glory} {of his right to exercise his deity} And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. Matthew 28:18 {which he takes up after the resurrection} And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power {authority} is given (surrendered) unto me in heaven and in earth. Revelation 1: 11-14, 22:13, 16 {now Jesus takes his rightful position} 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: … 12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;… 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last… > have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. Revelation 1:17-18 {John states Jesus is the First and the Last?} And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, fear not; I am the first and last: I am he that liveth, and was…………….. Dead, and, behold, I am alive for evermore, A-men; and have the keys of hell and of death …..When did the First and the Last (GOD), the Beginning and the End (GOD), the Alpha and Omega (GOD) taste death? Matthew 26:53 (Jesus was obedient to what was prophesied) Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way? Daniel 7:13-14, (Daniel fore saw all this) In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.” …..This explains how Jesus created all Hebrews 1:10 {The Father tells us the SON created all} And, Thou, Lord, {kurios} in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. Colossians 1:16-17 {Jesus created all things} In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him. And for him: And he is before all things. And by him all things consist. John 1:1, 2,3,14 {John states} All things through him came into being, and without him came into being not even one [thing] which has come into being. And the Word flesh became, and tabernacled among us, Isaiah 42:5 44:22 {God created all things} Psalm 104:5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heaven alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; Who laid the foundations of the earth, Genesis 1:1 {The Holy Spirit states GOD created all} In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord God! Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: So Who is GOD ? In His Service,
Hebrews 1:8 {the Father calls Jesus God} Psalm 45:6 But unto the Son he {God} saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom. Hebrews 1:6 {the Father tells the angels to worship Jesus} And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world he {God} saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. John 20:28, 29 {Thomas calls Jesus God} And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. { o Kurios mou kai o Theos mou } the definite article. …..Does Jesus correct Thomas? No, he calls him blessed. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. Romans 9:5 {Paul calls Jesus GOD} Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen…NIV I Timothy 4:16 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. Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, Philippians 2:5-7 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man: John 1:1, 2,3,14 {John calls Jesus God} In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. He was in [the] beginning with God. All things through him came into being, and without him came into being not even one [thing] which has come into being. And the Word flesh became, and tabernacled among us, ..................Even the demon Al lah calls Jesus GOD (Islam) "…O Mary! Behold, God gives you good news of a word from Him, who shall become known as the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary..." (Quran 3:45) "…The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of God, and His word which He conveyed unto Mary..." (Quran 4:171) "…God gives you good news of (a son whose name is) John, (who comes) to confirm a word from God…" (Quran 3:39) ..................As the demon mormo does too. (Mormonism) Mosiah 13:34 { God took the form of man } Have they not said that God himself should come down among the children of men, and take upon him the form of man, and go forth in mighty power upon the face of the earth. Mosiah 4:2, {Jesus took the form of man } ....for we believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God , who created heaven and earth and all things: who shall come down among the children of men.. …………………………………………………………………………………….. Matthew 1:23 (Matthew calls Jesus GOD} Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Acts 20:28 {Luke calls Jesus God} Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 2 Peter 1:1 {Peter calls Jesus God} Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours: Isaiah 7:14 {The Holy Spirit calls Jesus God} Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 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, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Exodus 3:13-14 (the Father states he is I AM THAT I AM) And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, what is his name? What shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. John 8:58 10:30-36 {John states Jesus said he is I AM} Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM. John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. So who is HE ? a man, God or God man In His service,
you ever think about lungs, heart and brain that works differently but in one body? Holy Trinity is logical, kind of complex but we'll know it when we see lord our God's true face
To all believers please pray for me. I need help and I believe in the power of prayer so please pray, I need you
I will pray for you
Deborah, I am praying for you. 🐝
I will pray.
Are you ok?
You don't need us, just Jesus. But we will pray for you sister.
That was beautiful, and as Mr. Zacharias was explaining this, the Holy Spirit was confirming it to me, He was on fire within. This is the best explaination of the Trinity that I have ever heard. The Holy Spirit once gave me a simple vision to explain it when i was a new Christian. He showed me hair that was braided with 3 strands. All 3 strands were separate but equal and all part of the one head of hair. It was simple and it helped me understand! Shalom all!
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Oh my goodness, Anakinconda!!! This is brilliant (of course it is, it's from God! haha) Thank you SO MUCH for sharing what God shared with you! Am going to share what you have written on my facebook timeline...This is such a wonderful illustration of the Trinity. Thank you again! God bless you...and you know, God gave this vision to you to share with the rest of the world, to help us to understand the Trinity. You have been faithful in sharing it with us! :)
I think your explanation is better than Mr. Zacharias.
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I had it explained by using H2O. But then someone said that would be wrong. When I was a kid someone said H2O has 3 forms, water, steam and ice. Water is like God, steam is the holy spiritual and I’ve is Jesus. Except the trinity is all at the same time. I was told it was wrong to explain it that way for some reason. 🤷🏻♀️. Idk. I think it makes sense. It helped me.
When you hear Ravi speak so eloquently and coherently on a subject like the Trinity it is bewildering how any Jehovah's Witness, Muslim, Unitarian, Arian,etc,etc can reject it out of hand.
We know that JW's are not supposed to expose themselves to Christians of any kind, so if by chance they heard Ravi in this video, regardless what they may say publicly, privately this presentation has to penetrate through the brainwashing somewhat.
That's what Ravi does, he takes away falsehood in the lost one layer (presentation) at a time. He is a gift to Christianity, along with so many other teachers, evangelists, preachers, and apologists. We are so blessed in the Christian church because God has made the Gospel of Christ so relevant and supernaturally alive in unison with His Holy Word, the Bible.
I believe that God grants us who are born again of the Spirit the gift of seeing clearly the Trinity, as revealed in every area of the Bible.
I see the Trinity in the very first three verses of Genesis, one, two, three.
1:1 God created the heaven and earth (the Father)
1:2 The Spirit moved over the deep. (the Holy Spirit)
1:3 Then God said,"let there be light" (the WORD, the Son Jesus Christ). He spoke and that is why it is said that the Word created all things.
(John 1:1-3; Col.1:15-19; Jeb. 1:1-3)
Now, if you want to argue with that go right ahead, I simply point out that for those who are alive in Christ see the Trinity and specifically the Deity of Jesus jump out nearly on every page, certainly in every book.
I am glad that I saw this video of Ravi, I do enjoy his ministry so much, God Bless him.
I believe that many people have read Scripture with their heads but missed the point because they forgot to read it with their hearts, too. Or they have allowed dogma from different other faiths to malign their perception of God even though the Biblical text is quite clear.
1. As Christ followers, it's silly that the NT should've presented Yeshua in the way they did without it being very deliberate. For JWs especially, they have the same Scriptures as we (though a very poor translation), yet they malign what is clearly stated. It doesn't get much more clear than John chapters 1, 2, 8 regarding HIs deity.
2. And if He is indeed God the Son & God the I AM at the same time as John 1 & 8:58 clearly attest, then we must take a closer look at the nature of GOD.
3. And if Yeshua speaks of the Holy Spirit as a Person and as Someone of Whom one can blaspheme, and if the writer of Acts attributes Personhood to the Ruach haKodesh, again, we are forced to re-examine the nature of God.
4. When we look at the above fully and conclusively, we start to make sense of OT passages wherein we see God speaking of Himself as "Us, Our" (Genesis 1, Isaiah 6). We start to make sense of Theophanies in the OT wherein God appears to humanity such as Abraham. We start to understand the passages of Daniel that speak of Christ as the Son of Man--and that this same reference in Matthew/Mark/Luke is actually an elevation of Yeshua that is tied to Daniel--in other words, that this One was and is the Divine One who will come on the clouds. We start to understand the prophesies regarding this One that would come...
5. When we see Christ accepting worship, forgiving sins, and speaking of Himself as being "greater than the Temple" and "greater than the prophets" and "Lord of the Sabbath," such items start to make sense. When He declares He Himself will raise Himself up on the third day--these all begin to make sense in light of His identity as the I AM in the midst of us.
No writer of the NT would've used the language they used unless they truly wanted to teach the Church what and Who He was & is to us and to the world.
we are created in God's image ... the Trinity is God the father, son and holy spirit... 3 in 1 👉 mind, body and spirit... 3 in 1
I dont think the mind body spirit thi9ng is a good way to explain the trinity
No man comes to God but by His word. And no man knows the whole father, but through His spirit, The Holy Spirit, We have a knowledge of God. The Only way to The Holy Spirit is through the word of God. And Since Letter/word is at the speed of Ligth/expression in the name of The Father, The Scripture that speaks on That there are three that bare witness in heaven, The Father, The Word, and The Holy Spirit and these three are one. This scripture makes sense. But I dont believe that this teaches the trintiy. I made a new vdeio on this. I dont use the word trinity
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So beautifully explained....thank you Dr. Ravi....may Our Lord Jesus continue to bless you with wisdom and use you mightily for His glory....stay blessed!!
I still AND ALWAYS WILL LOVE RAVI. He is my brother. NOTHING ever said against his behaviour WILL EVER make his words UNTRUE. GUILTY OR NOT, NOT MY DECISION. CANNOT ERASE ALL HE TAUGHT WHICH SAVED MANY PEOPLE FROM HELL.💜💜💜
Amen and Amen! Ravi Zacharias explained the Trinity beautifully. I love it!
I heard the trinity explained like this .... H20 can be steam, water and ice. three different functions but still H20.
Jesus is King. He beat death and he devil. We who put our faith in Christ are victorious in Him who has redeemed us. All are called, few will answer the call. Please consider Jesus and answer. Your reward will be wonderful.
Amen, for the Father loves us deeply and truly.
my heart is warmed
thanking God for annointing Ravi
I shall adore God & I shall love the Lord my God with all my heart, soul, and mind and I shall love my neighbor as myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me so I may be a part of Your wondrous creation. Amen.
Glory to GOD!!! GOD is altogether wonderful!!! Thank you Ravi Zacharias! And thank you for sharing!
Most Beautiful explanation I've ever heard this is one of the viddos that convinced me of the truth of the Holy Trinity thank you Ravi, R.I.P, we will miss you ❤
Here is real supreme logical and senseful explanation of the most high God. May God give prof. ZECHARIAH and his family with more prosperity of wisdom, peace , and knowledge. By the way, any size or measure that can be named is limited. So, the idea of presence of the Triune divine living God is beyond our limited counting system with its limited boundary. Although the Creator is one in terms of His existing identity, His speaking, love and relational , and counseling abilities had been exprinced within His Triune presence in the first place. Eg.of His Triune counseling is that when He said" let us create human in our image" and " let us confuse their languages".
Great explanation. I have heard other illustrations. The 3 stages of water(frozen, liquid and vapor), Clock with 3 needles, (x, y, z) coorinates, Atom with electron, proton, neutron.
I am an aircraft mechanic, not a Bible scholar etc., so my channel has an entirely different approach to God's Word. I have a 17 minute video that sheds some Light on this subject, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/6KPPmSK_1E0/w-d-xo.html
This man is purely amazing. I never heard a such beautiful explanation of Trinity before. All glory to Father, Son and Holy Spirit!
We have a God of mystery, and we do not need to understand everything about Him in order to have faith. The Westminster Shorter Catechism says this about the Trinity-same in substance, equal in power and glory. Ravi always does a God glorifying job. Praise God for men like him.
Brian Beck good day God is not a mystery he gives us a book of 66 chapters over 31,000 scriptures to learn about him to understand him 2nd Timothy 3:16 all scriptures are beneficial for teaching God says he is not a god of confusion but he is a god of order Psalms 83:18 Reed's Jehovah is the most high God John 3:16 Jehovah Sent His only begotten son so when Jesus says he's just the Son of God we should believe him come to know him
Brian Beck ...Yes, how can we in our finite minds expect to understand everything about God..God is infinite and immortal...And in our present state of sinfulness we cannot understand and comprehend everything about God.... When we do meet Him in the Second Coming...We will see Him.... That's what the Bible says about faith.... Hebrews 11: 1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen...
Hi, Larry...your words are true as it is God's given Word, His ultimate form of communication to us by which we can know Him...His personal character and His will. But Larry, because our existence is limited and fallible, it is impossible for us to FULLY comprehend God and His ways. This is one aspect to His AWESOMENESS. We comprehend but He is beyond our FULL comprehension.
As it says in Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." And Job 36:26 "Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable."
"Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable," (Psalm 145:3). Paul adds to this idea, observing that "the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God,,...no one comprehends the things of God except the Spirit of God" (1 Corinthians 2:10-12).
David likewise emphasizes this in his reference to God; "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it" (Psalm 139:6; cf. 17).
God is so majestic, Larry! Yes, we can know Him...but COMPLETELY?
I dare not arrogantly credit myself with the capability! God is limitless! There's no way, especially on this little earth with all the little green apples that God has made, that our FINITE minds could possibly fathom the INFINITE God completely. He is THAT awesome!
Brian Beck ....God is not that mysterious. God is one nott three. One spirit works all things simultaneously.
Easy!
Genesis 1:26 GOD created us in His Own Image and Likeness.
I, myself; i am 3 in 1: body, soul & spirit= but i am one.
So GOD made us in His Image which is 3 in 1.
why so difficult to understand that?
Shalom!
I believe in trinity.
You stated, "I, myself; i am 3 in 1: body, soul & spirit= but i am one. "
In this case Jesus claims that he is son.
God, himself; body (son), soul(father), spirit (counselor). I
s it a bit of juxtaposition of the claim that you have made? :p
Reading 2 Phil 2:6-11
Brothers and sisters:
Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
coming in human likeness;
and found human in appearance,
he humbled himself,
becoming obedient to death,
even death on a cross.
Because of this, God greatly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name
that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Alleluia
God bless you mightily Seng Cheenh. He who does not deny me in front of men, him I will not deny in front of my Father.
I can explain the Trinity. God stated we were made in his image correct? Tell me this, is your physical body you? How about your mind? What about your soul? We are three in one just as God. Jesus is the body, the Holy Spirit is the soul and God is the mind.
Read what I wrote. The holy spirit literally spoke it right into my spirit as I lay in bed one night .
Loll wow yeo that blew my mind God bless you
but, once time jesus said before he was killed, "God.., why you leave me?".
question is, who inside the body of jesus when he said that..? another soul and mind?
did he ask question to himself?
Clearest definition I ever heard! And it's true...... ask God long enough about any question, and He'll eventually give you a straightforward answer! (Complex sometimes but always straightforward. 😬)
I am an aircraft mechanic, not a Bible scholar etc., so my channel has an entirely different approach to God's Word. I have a 17 minute video that sheds some Light on this subject, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/6KPPmSK_1E0/w-d-xo.html
I have always maintained a simpler explanation of the Trinity which makes sense (at least, to me). "GOD IS LIGHT". All light is one and the same light, yet passed through a prism, its three components (equal, yet separate) are revealed in 3 primary colors. All of them are light, yet they are not identical but rather completely distinct. Such is the Trinity! Three Entities, yet all the One and the same God. And without One of Them, God would not exist. -- Just as light would not exist apart from its 3 primary colors.
Al Anton that’s a great way to see it. Very helpful!
Al Anton, I never thought of it in these terms. Great analogy. Gonna have to break that one out next time I talk about this subject.
GREAT!!!
Or we could just read his Word:
Deuteronomy 33:27 {The Father has always been}
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Jeremiah 23:24 {The Omnipresence of the Father}
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? Saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? Saith the LORD.
Proverbs 15 {The omniscience of the Father }
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
1 John 3:20
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Matthew 19 {The Omnipotence of The Father}
26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Malachi 3:6 {The Immutability of the Father}
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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Micah 5:2 { Jesus has always been }
But thou, Bethlehem Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Matthew 18:20 {The Omnipresence of the Son}
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Ephesians 4:10
He that descended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things
John 21:17 {The omniscience of the Son }
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, feed my sheep.
Colossians 2:3
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Matthew 28:18 {The Omnipotence of The Son}
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Revelation 1:8, 22:13, 16
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last…
I JESUS have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
Philippians 3:21
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Hebrews 13:8 {The Immutability of the Son}
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
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Hebrews 9:14 {The Holy Spirit has always been }
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?
Hebrews 9:14 {The Omnipresence of the Spirit}
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?
1 Corinthians 2:10 {The omniscience of the Spirit}
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 { The Omnipotence of The Spirit }
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 John 5:7
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
In His service,
@@natejusko486 In the beginning was Jeffrey and Jeffrey was with David and Jeffrey was David.
This is how jehovah's witnesses understand the prologue of John.
YOU MUST FOCUS TO JESUS AT ALL COST.ONLY JESUS IS THE TRUTH
Jesus said this John 17:3 "And eternal life is this: to know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent."
Sir Ravi, you're purely amazing in bringing out both the meaning and the essence of what is.
I am an aircraft mechanic, not a Bible scholar etc., so my channel has an entirely different approach to God's Word. I have a 17 minute video that sheds some Light on this subject, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/6KPPmSK_1E0/w-d-xo.html
This man is BRILLIANT! LOVE him!!
Sally Peterson he
is
Sir Reginald
Bless your heart
This is awesome! Beautify explained is spot on. Thank you.
the bible says keep your spirit, soul and body blameless. all three entities of man function independently while still remaining as a member of the whole. now we are made in the image and likeness of GOD.
Amen!
Worldly religious men like Ravi Zaccharias love the sound of their own voice and the sound of their many words and the sound of praise they receive for their eloquent yet verbose speeches.
The truth is simple, not complex.
Knowing the Father and Jesus and the Holy Spirit does not need many verbose words ... in fact no words are needed.
Truth and understanding will be placed in your heart if you truly seek it from the Lord.
Seek the Lord, not men!
Praise Jesus.
You say these things about Ravi--yet you want those who read YOUR words to embrace what YOU are saying as "Gospel." What's the difference? Well, in the former, he's been an apologist for Christ for over three decades. I will listen to him, disagree or not, and consider what he says. To lump him with televangelists and the like is silly and has no basis in reality.
In case you haven't heard, it took the Apostle Paul going to men who had not even heard of the Holy Spirit until Paul asked them, "Have you received the Holy Spirit?" Yes, we go to the LORD GOD directly, and through the Scriptures directly, but do not discount what God can speak through people who have experienced a lifetime of growth, who have experienced great pain in their lives, who can give shortcuts to life and questions about life (it's called wisdom)--and lived to tell about it because of their faith in Christ. That is called a testimony.
You can disregard Ravi if you wish--that's your choice. His audience is NOT a church. It is a campus where people regard the mind. It is good that he goes there, in my opinion, and speaks in a way so many would turn to the Lord and away from anti-God (either against God or in the place of God). Incidentally, the Lord said to worship/love the LORD with all of one's heart, MIND, and strength. So Ravi, who is not a doctor (only in an honorary sense), is obeying the Lord--not trying to be like you think we should be like...but being true to the man God created him to be (obviously an intellectual).
I discount a lot of what you say because you are too high-minded and too unteachable. You've already arrived, as they say (or so you think). But like the man who beats his chest pointing fingers at the sinner in the corner saying, "Thank You God I'm not like that fellow," you are, actually, probably the farthest from God's Kingdom than the people you're pointing at with accusation. Lower your opinion of yourself, I'd suggest.
God Bless you Ravi
PRAISED THE LORD! In the NAME of the FATHER(GOD our FATHER), in the NAME of the SON(JESUS CHRIST), and of the HOLY SPIRIT. HALLELUIAH! HALLELUIAH! HALLELUIAH AMEN.
I PRAISED YOU LORD MY GOD, MY FRIEND and MY SAVIOR! YOU ARE MY SALVATION...
"I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE."
"COME FOLLOW ME" (JESUS)
GOD IS LOVE!
Servant of Christ , praise the lord
The greatest expression of love
Is in the godhead,
So much so that such perfect Love is
Beyond understanding,
God is a spirit but He has a form
He has head, body, hands , feet, eyes, mouth
He use His mouth to talk, He said come, speaking to
The godhead let us make man.
He use his hands to form Adam out of the Dust
He use his Finger to Write the Ten Commandments
On tables of stones on mount Sinai, Though
He is a Divine Being, But He has personality.
The bible talked about the Mind of God.
And if God is Love Then He has a Heart and because He
Has a heart, He knows it's Not Good For
Man to be Alone, Because man was made
In His image, and human beings heart desire
love and companionship.
That means He Dose not
Like loneliness, That's why He Made us
That one day we will be with Him.
God need companionship, That's why He made Man In His Image.
He said the church is His Bride, he is Love, He share Love.
God is comfort , and He gives comfort,
You can't SEPERATE God from his word but for the plan
Of salvation the operation is divided, the responsibility is shared.
That's love, the Fathers roll is different from the son who is
The word, the Holy Spirit working is different, He works
On the hearts and minds of mankind, To connect humanity
With divinity.
The word which is also spirit and life was always with God,
John 1:1and is God, we do not have to fight against him
He is who the bible say he is.
Also the Holy Spirit whom the world cannot receive.
The word is spirit as well as the word is life,
When the word took on form, He came to us
In the likeness of a man, we beheld His Glory
We called him JESUS .
So easy, and yet such mystery,
That's GOD!
Amen
Thank you Father son and Holy Spirit .
The gospel is simple .
People turn away from the clear simplicity of
The gospel and turn to fables..
.
The oneness people say the father do everything he is the one who even
Hang on the tree, he make a shell which is JESUS and
Put himself into the shell JESUS.
.
Undermining the clear simple teaching of Truth
In the scriptures.
There was never a time when God was by himself
John1:1 said the word was with him
God is love and share love in the godhead
The word which is spirit and have life in himself
Was with him in the biggining ,
Also the Holy Spirit who is a silent listener
If not, THEN JOHN 1:1 DOSENT make any sense
And I know it makes perfect sense.
Also all the other scriptures.
Amen..
God is good! Thank you Ravi!!
Got to listen to the talk by Ravi Z several times, and one Can gain a sense of the importance and rationality of what he is saying, even if one is by no means a student of philosophy🥺. Once he gets to the matter of relationship communication and Love we can begin to cotton on a bit! Still, there’s both “Majesty and Mystery” (RZ) in the entire concept of the Trinity!
I love my local pastor at my church, he explains it in a very simple way, he explains that trinity is more like a role that God does in this vast universe. imagine yourself a happily married man, that are blessed with children and lovely wife, and also still have a loving parents. Now if you look at this, your roles will be different. When you relate to your own parents, then you relate to them as their son, same thing when you approach and relate to your own children then in this case, you relate to them as their dad/father. Also with your wife, you will relate yourself to her as her husband.
Now does this mean there are three of you? of course not there is still one you only, never been three, but the roles that you take are indeed three. Same thing with Trinity ( Father, Son and Holy Spirit).. As you know family is the smallest unit in society that God created. I think family analogy is the perfect example to explain the relationship between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This explanation makes more sense to me, especially for simple minded people.
No disrespect to Ravi, but I think his explanation is bit more complex and can be bit hard to grasp, but again it's just my personal opinion.
Sorry to shock you, the real trinity explanation is each person Father, Son and Holy Spirit is distinct (each having self-consciousness) hence it cannot be explained using role. The concept of role is still Modalism explanation, only having one consciouness, i.e one-being.
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All have to answer to our lord Jesus Christ. The greatest thing the devil has done is made people believe he doesn’t exist...
Keep jesus in your heart people! Amen 🙏
UNITY IN DIVERSITY IN THE COMMUNITY OF THE TRINITY IN PRISTINE SIMPLICITY WITH BRILLIANT MAJESTY AND MYSTERY IN DIVINE FELLOWSHIP.
Best Explanation i ever heard Thanks.
Ravi Ravi Ravi lol. Excellent insight. Explained poetically, with simplicity. Let us pray for wisdom, for God gives liberally to ALL who ask. Do u know this is a prayer we as Christians can pray every day. blessings multiplied..
Where in the whole of the Bible is it written the trinity ?
Thanks for your comment and question. Appreciate you stopping by.
Jesus said, "Go therefore in the Name (singular) of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." And this is one of many such passages.
Fact: to deny Tri-unity of God usually results in a denial of the deity of Christ (which is evident throughout the Bible).
And if you're oneness believing Jesus is Father, is Son, is Holy Spirit, you open up a whole different can of worms. Jesus said, "I will send Another like Me." Jesus said of the Spirit one can speak against the Son and it be forgiven; but to speak against the Holy Spirit, it would not be forgiven--in this world or the world to come. There is a stark difference between the Son and the Spirit.
And to Whom was Jesus praying to...and to Whom did He commit His spirit when He died (to go into Hades)? It was the Father.
Fact: deny the Tri-unity of God, you deny common sense interpretations of the Scripture and the correct understanding of the nature of GOD.
You won't find the word Trinity in the Bible. Thank God it's not written out. There is a mystery to the Creator--one that must be understood by the Spirit and the Word (the Scriptures, the Bible). Many words are not found in the Bible that are still valid: Incarnation; Rapture, etc.
God bless!
Sean
The soul has marvelous wonders indeed, Seek and Thou Shall Find Our LORD GOD ‘s Holy Divine Light 🔅 ..
Do not know if Ravi would agree with this. But I have a simple illustration. You have a simple apple. The apple has seeds inside the white inner fruit and the Red outter skin. All 3 parts make up one apple. Different purpose, different taste. Can separate all 3 . yet you can not have an apple without all 3 becoming one. Makes perfect sense to me. Now just imagine if A small minded person as myself can understand this, what can the infinate mind of God be.
Doug N
Problem is, Each person in the trinity isn’t a PART of God, each one is God
Isaiah 53:5, he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed. For salvation, people just need to follow the way they did it in Acts? They were baptized in the water and of the spirit. Here's why! The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. If we are to follow him, we must do the same thing. Death= repentance, Burial = baptism, and resurrection = being filled and rising again from the dead. That's what Acts 2:38 is. We must obey the gospel, 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus Christ... Matthew 7:21-23, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven; but he that DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER which is in Heaven. St John 3:3-5, EXCEPT a man be born of WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD. We can't come up with our own gospel. Galatians 1:8-9, But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Don't be cursed. One way for all people. Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritan. Our salvation has to match-up with the scriptures and no scriptures on the subject can be taken away. Eternity is TOOO long to be WRONG! st John 5:39, Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. The gospels show what Christ has done on the cross for us. The book of Acts shows us the beginning of Christ's Church and how to enter the Church, obeying Acts 2:38. The letters were written to the Church to show us how to behave now that we are born again into the Church. It's better to walk alone than to walk with a crowd going in the wrong direction. Are we supposed to follow the teachings of the apostles? Acts 2:42, They continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrines. Ephesians 2:20, We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. If you believe in this message, help spread it in the name of Jesus Christ. God bless you!
"But in the one true God and Trinity it is naturally true not only that God is one but also that he is a Trinity, for the reason that the true God himself is a Trinity of Persons and one in nature. Through this natural unity the whole Father is in the Son and in the Holy Spirit, and the whole Holy Spirit, too, is in the Father and in the Son. None of these is outside any of the others; because no one of them precedes any other of them in eternity or exceeds any other in greatness, or is superior to any other in power"
Lovely words, Seng Cheenh! :)
God is love; love can not exist in isolation but in relation so God is a relationship.
If the members of the trinity are co - equal and co - eternal by devine nature, why is the Father alone called the Most High?
The unity of the trinity I believe can also be expressed by the science of mathematics. Mathematics is an exact science. 1+1 always equals 2. 2+2 always equals 4. Since the G-d head is a unity in diversity you can not “add to it: 1+1+1=3. You must multiply it by itself: 1x1x1= “1”. 3 individual units multiplied by themselves. You just have to use the correct mathematical formula. You would think people would see this more easily since you cannot add to G-d since He is One!!
Michael; Thanks, or I may express it as one God raised to the power of three identities.
Michael Regan Are you doing anything by calling God "G-d". God is a definition of who and what YHWH is. YHWH or Yahway or rather Yahodvah (Jahovah) is his name that the Jews sought to obscure by omitting vowels. And the reason was to protect God's name.
Michael Regan we dont live in a time that we need to obscure God's name. We WANT people to know God. The Hebrews did not want people to speak God's name. Orthodox Jews today still avoid using God's name in conversation (his name) not the word God.
FOR IN JESUS ALL THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD DWELLS BODILY
I am an aircraft mechanic, not a Bible scholar etc., so my channel has an entirely different approach to God's Word. I have a 17 minute video that sheds some Light on this subject, here is the link: th-cam.com/video/6KPPmSK_1E0/w-d-xo.html
YUP ONLY RAVI COULD HAVE EXPLAINED IT !! PRAISE THE LORD FOR THE PEOPLE THROUGH WHOM HE REVEALS TINY GLIMPSES OF HIS INFINITE AMAZING GRACE
Amen, Papa! :) People complicate Scriptural truths that reveal His Personhood. Even science says that reality as we know it is made up by 13 dimensions? Is it so difficult to imagine that God who is infinite in dimensions would take the form of a Man, Christ Jesus, Messiah of the world, dying for the world, and teach us through example, and then in word? Thanks for watching, Papa! God bless you and yours! -Sean Elliot Russell
Trinity is H2O, The Father is Solid, Son is Liquid, and the Spirit is Gaseous State. Son is self-awareness of God about God itself like a child grows up to know himself (analogy). The SON is what Avicenna calls the First-Intellect that emanates in a procession of self-consciousness.
The Meaning of One
1Co 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is ONE Spirit.
The Spirit is God's essence. Spirit is what God is, and the Spirit He is is the Holy Spirit. That is the missing key to understanding "the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The reason the Father and the Son are One is because they are the Holy Spirit. This scripture makes it plain. The Spirit is also how we are one in them when we believe.
Ro 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but IN THE SPIRIT, if so be that THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. Now if any man have not THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, he is none of his.
10 ¶ And if CHRIST be IN YOU, the body is dead because of sin; but THE SPIRIT IS LIFE because of righteousness.
11 But if THE SPIRIT OF HIM THAT RAISED UP JESUS from the dead DWELL IN YOU, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by HIS SPIRIT THAT DWELLETH IN YOU.
Ro 12:5 So WE, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST, and every one members one of another.
1Co 10:17 For we being many are ONE BREAD, and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that ONE BREAD.
1Co 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.
In the exact same way, Jesus said,...
Joh 10:30 I AND my Father ARE ONE.
Joh 17:11 ¶ 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: (IN THE SAME WAY)
Joh 17:20 ¶ Neither pray I for these alone, but for THEM ALSO WHICH SHALL BELIEVE IN ME through their word;
21 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.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that THEY MAY BE ONE, AS WE ARE ONE: (IN THE SAME WAY)
23 I IN THEM AND THOU IN ME, that they may be made perfect IN ONE; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Joh 17:24 ¶ Father, I WILL THAT THEY ALSO, WHOM THOU HAS GIVEN ME, BE WITH ME WHERE I AM; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for THOU LOVEDST ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I IN THEM.
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another COMFORTER, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for HE DWELLETH WITH YOU, AND SHALL BE IN YOU.
18 ¶ I will not leave you comfortless: I WILL COME TO YOU.
Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and WE WILL COME UNTO HIM, AND MAKE OUR ABODE WITH HIM.
Jesus comes to us in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit doesn't leave them, it emanates from them. That is how God is omnipresent. His Spirit permeates every place in heaven and earth.
Joh 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Mt 7:7 ¶ Ask, and it shall be given you;
Lu 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
In the book of Revelation, in the last two chapters, where it talks about the new heaven and the new earth, we find no mention of the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit is there, in the Father and the Son. What we do see is a river of life flowing out of the throne.
Re 22:1 ¶ And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Joh 7:37 ¶ In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Joh 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Trinity isn’t a good explanation of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Look at these references to the Holy Spirit. These are from the kjv.
Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, the Spirit, Spirit of God, Spirit of Jesus Christ, Spirit of the Lord , Spirit of Christ, Spirit of the living God, Spirit of our God, Spirit of your Father, holy Spirit of God, Spirit which is of God, Spirit of His Son, his Holy Spirit, My Spirit, His Spirit, the Lord is that Spirit, Spirit of grace, holy Spirit of promise, Spirit of adoption, Spirit of life in Christ, Spirit of life from God, the Spirit itself.
The way the Spirit is described in the scripture as being "of God" and "of His Son" and being "His Spirit", it doesn't sound like a third person. I don't think the Spirit is a third person. I think it is what God is. Just as you and I are human beings, the Father and Son are Holy Spirit.
Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Spirit is what God is, and the Spirit He is is the Holy Spirit.
Php 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
God is Love......He is the Source, the Word, and the Wisdom........ that in the beginning of time itself, united in His nature since the start He is All Knowing.....yet what or who do He knew since creation of all things that were and are and will be?.... He knows Himself through His reflection, the very definition of Himself through His Son......being a reflection of God Himself, He embodies God and is the absolute image of God and spirit of God, all that God is is the Son.....the God Knows the Son and speaks with Him, He loves His Son in the beginning of all.....the shared Love between them is the very nature of God Himself and is Love, for God is Love Himself, therefore the shared Love between the Father and the Son is Love and is God. God is Love. God is Love in His very nature and divinity.
We may not fully know Him and grasp His nature or understand His divinity, therefore placing us in humility before His infiniteness and possibilities, making God beyond us all yet encompassing through us as the Spirit of God is with us, therefore the Son is with us and the Father is with us as we are all in the Son, the Spirit, and the Father Himself, God Himself. God in His nature is beyond reason, beyond math, beyond human concept of number and counting.....He shouldn't be understood fully for He is beyond dimensions of our world, He is beyond our existence, our ideas, our counting, our logic, or philosophy....... but no matter how God is so hard to understand, He chose to show Himself through His Son and He showed unto us as the Spirit and He spoke and is caring us as the Father like a being encompassing and beyond time and space and our dimension who then came down to our dimension so we can be close to Him who is Love Himself for we always do seek love and belongingness. A God incomprehensible and beyond all our existence came for us and went down for us to our own reality and dimension shows that He loves us and cares about us since the beginning He created the world and us, even until we broke away from Him. He never ended loving us. He is God. God is Love. He is beyond , yet with us, yet within us all those with faith and good will. He is beyond anyone's understanding, yet He tried to come down so we can understand Him in His majesty and mystery. :)
I am Successful Well said!
"Do not consider only the goodness of God, but consider His SEVERITY as well. Otherwise, you will also be cut off." - Paul
It is very wrong for Christians to go around talking about 'God is love' as it that is His only nature.
God is WRATH as well!
His very name is JEALOUS!
You people are creating an IMAGE of God that YOU want, not one that is representative of HIM. Wesernized Churchianity, not ancient Christianity, cause there is no such thing as "God is Love full stop" and not also mention His terror.
"The FEAR of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"
"FEAR Him."
"All who sin against Me I WILL blot out of My Book!"
"Knowing the TERROR of the Lord, we persuade men"
Why do you think the Apostles said that? Its' becaue they know the reality of HELL and the ETERNAL DAMNATION that they tried to persuade men against sin.
Is God love? Yes. Yes He is. But He is also WRATH and JUDGMENT and VENGENCE.
I do agree that balance is needed. We shouldn't go to one extreme or another--except to say that Yeshua is the only way to God. But as believers in Him, we should give warning to people but make sure our message is, indeed, "Good News," not bad news or condemning news. We have been given a message of RECONCILIATION, that God's wrath has been poured out on His Son so that anyone who puts their trust in HIm will not know or experience God's wrath/condemnation. "God so loved the world" cannot be minimalized. Yet the verses that follow speak of His condemnation resting on those what do not look to the Son. So balance is needed.
The Trinity is not a mathematical issue - it's the very nature of being - unity, diversity in the community of the Trinity.
this really helps when ministering to muslims..since in the natural they cannot understand..even if they do personally..to us they have to hold true to there belief ..since they are in denial..they feel they must hold to the koran..yet the Bible is and will always hold true ..in Jesus mighty name.. amen
OK, let's take a look at what you are attempting to say.
What is "The Constantine lie"?
The Church teaches what God revealed for mankind. Why are you having a problem with that unless you believe that truth does not matter?
The Nicene - Constantinople Creed was formulated at Nicea in 325 A. D. and Constantinople in 381 A. D.
You "Sabbath keepers" keep accusing Christians of worshiping some sun god, yet, I could simply level the same claim against you.
Since the Sabbath falls between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday, let's look at the history of the names of those days.
The name Friday comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ, meaning the "day of Frige", a result of an old convention associating the Old English goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures. The same holds for Frīatag in Old High German, Freitag in Modern German, and vrijdag in Dutch.
So, on Friday, you are worshiping the goddess Frigg and the goddess Venus.
Saturday is named after the planet Saturn, which in turn was named after the Roman god Saturn.
So, there you have it. You want Christians to worship two female and one male pagan deities.
There are a lot of words in Christianity that are used to explain a theological concept. It does not mean that they are inherently wrong.
God is not to be worshiped?
You refer to the New Testament, yet, you take issue against those people called by God whom you claim to know.
The early Christians professed that Jesus is God well before Nicea. Nicea just upheld what was already taught because Arius was teaching heresy.
Theophilus of Antioch
"It is the attribute of God, of the most high and almighty and of the living God, not only to be everywhere, but also to see and hear all; for he can in no way be contained in a place. . . . The three days before the luminaries were created are types of the Trinity: God, his Word, and his Wisdom" (To Autolycus 2:15 [A.D. 181]).
Origen
"For we do not hold that which the heretics imagine: that some part of the being of God was converted into the Son, or that the Son was procreated by the Father from non-existent substances, that is, from a being outside himself, so that there was a time when he [the Son] did not exist" (The Fundamental Doctrines 4:4:1 [A.D. 225]).
"No, rejecting every suggestion of corporeality, we hold that the Word and the Wisdom was begotten out of the invisible and incorporeal God, without anything corporal being acted upon . . . the expression which we employ, however that there was never a time when he did not exist is to be taken with a certain allowance. For these very words ‘when’ and ‘never’ are terms of temporal significance, while whatever is said of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is to be understood as transcending all time, all ages" (ibid.).
"For it is the Trinity alone which exceeds every sense in which not only temporal but even eternal may be understood. It is all other things, indeed, which are outside the Trinity, which are to be measured by time and ages" (ibid.).
Hahaha, dido
What aspect causes the other in your life, Happiness causes truth or truth causes Happiness?
Consequently: What aspect comes first in your daily life routine, Happiness or truth?
Selflessly,
Ps. Truth cannot be relative or as a preference/opinion (right/wrong), but it must transcend time. Therefore, truth is in actuality absolute; never changes. The absolute truth is fundamentally visible within nature via the patterns in reason but do you see/know the patterns that allow discernment to see/know it? Therefore, matter as neither created/destroyed identifies the 1st Cause of everything created in existence starting with/as the 3 in 1 perfectly infinite coded pattern as Actuality of "matter"/"Hope"/"God." Ultimately, every human pursues "Happiness" first in all they do, but what precedes/causes "Happiness" other than the actuality of the absolute truth? _Eternal Optimism
(Pattern Qualification) facebook.com/notes/eternal-optimism/eo-qualifications/10151955717990720/
Wow. He is profound. Beautiful explanation.
Oh that's why Jesus commanded us true love our neighbor as ourselves. Because true love is being yourself as an equal to the next person. So how can God create on Earth the expression of a love relationship if it is not already a part of who he is?
God is one person His name is LORD JESUS CHRIST.
spoken wonderfully
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are one in *purpose,* not in substance.
Amen! Now THAT is a much much much better explanation, not to mention simpler explanation, than the one that Ravi Zaccharias gave.
The truth is simple!!
Worldly religious men love the sound of their own voice and of their many words and of the praises they receive from men rather than speaking a simple and truthful explanation.
God bless you firecloud77
The truth is with you, Jesus is with you!
Praise Jesus.
And why do our Muslim friends find it so improbable/impossible for God to come in the midst of us? Do you reject the OT accounts of the LORD GOD coming in a form and appearing to Abraham? To Adam? To Moses? To the prophets? So why should it be so incredible (though it really truly is incredible), that He should fulfill Scripture and come to the world as one of us?
1. Consider that this One was the Last Adam, made as the first Adam, being perfect and sinless (unlike the rest of humanity). This explains His birth--born of a woman but not from the seed of a man. Through the work of God's Spirit, Mary conceives this very special Child. He comes not to face one temptation but to face all temptations. He comes to regain the dominion lost by the first Adam. He comes to reverse the Fall of the first Adam. He comes to open Eden (so we might walk with God) rather than to close up Eden and place sentries there. He comes to destroy the works of a ramphant enemy--instead of inviting the enemy by disregarding God's words.
2. Consider that this One would come as a Man, yet in His nature be God. However, as God in the flesh, He did not use His deity to any advantage. All of His power, His gifts, HIs wisdom, His works was due to His allegiance to the Father and by the power of the Holy Spirit.
3. Consider that when Christ died on the Cross, God did not die--for death is not a cessation of existence but a gateway to the next realm... I suspect His Lordship did not cease whatsoever when His body expired upon that tree.
4. Consider that when Yeshua calls the Father "My God and My Father," such a statement does not mean that that means He believes HImself not to be God/I AM THAT I AM. He speaks as the Servant--the most humble Man Who ever lived. And, as a Man, He could speak of His Father being Father/God without contradiction to His own nature.
5. Regarding the Son not knowing the day or the hour, I'd say that was true at the time He spoke those words--but such is not true from the moment He returned to Glory. Again He is speaking of Himself as the Servant/Last Adam.
6. And if Muhammad was incorrect about the Cross/Resurrection of Christ which both secular history and biblical history attest, what other things is he incorrect? If he got the event wrong in the natural, what of the heavenly things might he have got completely wrong?
If Muslims are honest and look past the lens of their dogma, they might start to question what they believe regarding God's nature and, indeed, what we must do to truly please God. I can say it is not repeating a repetitious prayer five times a day... It is calling upon the Name of the One Crucified and RIsen, that One Who reverses the curse of Adam. Only in Him can we be saved and truly start to live.
-Sean
What if, The Father is the highest, the untouchable; the Son is he's touchable form, reachable to human beings; and the Holy Spirit is the link between the 2, the rope that allows us to have a connection with the Father. What if?
If they consider word trinity, the father, the son and the Holy Spirit are equal to each other, then for me it is wrong. I believe they are same God but they are not equal in their being. The father is higher than the son. They can't be equal.
You will be missed brother...
What do we understand by a Trinitarian God. In the Christian faith the Trinitarian God means three persons in one God. The person referred here should not be understood as human person but rather a divine person. It means there are three divine entity in one God. It can be termed as singularity in plurality. The Trinity as understood by Christians is God, the Spirit of God and the Word of God. They appear as three entity but is only one God.
In order to have a simple understanding we can take a comparison with the Sun. Sun is not God but a created object. It is used here just for understanding. The Sun similarly has three entities viz. The Sun, its heat and its light. Inspite of the three entities we still say one Sun and not three Suns. Similarly God has three entities God, Word of God and Spirit of God and yet one God.
Further we see the power of the heat of the Sun is inside the Sun and at the same time the heat is also on earth when the Sun shines. It show some what its omnipotence. Similarly we see the light of the Sun, which is within the Sun and at the same time is present on the earth where it shines. This show its omnipresence.
God in a similar manner but much more portently becomes omnipotent and omnipresent. It is an all knowing God who is the creator of all things and who is everlasting. He has used the other two entities to achive the purpose of creation. He was God, He is God and will remain God.
I am sure you have now understood the concept of God as One God comprising of three entities. Christians therefore believe in only One God which means monotheism.
Let not the devil fool you with his half lies and irrational arguments.
Some say, Trinity is 1 +1+1=3... I say Trinity is 1×1×1=1. Because Isaiah 9:6 says it. The Son is the Everlasting Father. God was God before, now, and forever. The same God before the world was, the same God who dwelt with man in the flesh, and the same God who's spirit is Holy(Holy Spirit). And he gave it to us all who believed in Jesus. And that he lives within us all Christians. God's power has no limit. All Glory to Jesus our King, Amen!.
Superb explaination... very much thanks
Awesome sharing and God bless!
Well said Ravi!❤
I think his explanation is great. To the educated, which is who he is addressing here(a given). But I have found a more common explanation for the average person. Most people would agree to believe in some sort of essence to Life(soul or spirit, or even consciousness)....meaning you can get them to agree to that point, yet their soul or spirit is linked inextricably to themselves, and they wouldn’t consider themselves to have a multi-personality disorder. The Bible claims the very image of God himself is imprinted in the creation of man. We have a body(linked in the physical realm, and a spirit or/and or soul is one with ourselves, yet is in touch with the spiritual realm or dimension. If people do understand the nature of God, they cannot even have a right sense of self identity in this life. If someone cannot understand their own existence and identity, how could they ever have a right understanding God and his identity.
Yeshua is the Son of God not the Father
the Father Created THROUGH Jesus
Jesus is not the Father or you make Him a liar saying that He is not the Son of God and you make the Father a liar by sending His own voice from Heaven testifying that JESUS IS HIS SON
Jesus was with the Father before the earth was
but there was a time when Jesus was brought out FROM the Father just the Father showed us this when He created through Jesus Adam and Eve, He formed Adam and Eve was OF ADAM
Being the Son of the LIVING GOD does not make Him any less than being equal to God but it does not mean they are 2 gods
for to us Jesus is a God because His nature is GOD
our nature is MAN
He has the nature of His Father but not the personality of His Father.
Jesus is the Holy Spirit in Spiritual form, the Spirit is given to Jesus as a sign of glorification
Jesus was anointed by the Father just at the baptism when He started His mission
Acts 10:38
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
Jesus spoke about the Spirit that it will be Him coming to us but in another form yet people made of it another story because they do not want to read the Bible the way it reads but in the eyes of others.
John 7
39 He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Jesus had to be GLORIFIED
what happened on His Glorification?
Acts 3:13-26
13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
Jesus was Glorified on the day of Pentecost and glorified His disciples by giving them Himself as a gift
the Spirit of Jesus is the presence of the Father and the very life of Jesus, when we have Jesus in us through His Spirit we die to self and give Him to live in us
2 Thessalonians 1:10
10 When he shall come to be glorified IN HIS SAINTS, and to be admired IN ALL them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Colossians 1:27
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ IN YOU, the hope of glory
Ephesians 3:17
17 That Christ may dwell IN YOUR HEARTS by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Galatians 4:19
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed IN YOU,
Galatians 2:20
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth IN ME: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME
Galatians 1:15-16
15 But when it pleased God, Who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace,
16 To reveal his Son IN ME, that I might preach Him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood
John 14:22
22 Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and WE will come to him and make OUR home with him.
Jesus is our father in new creation because THROUGH HIM WE BECOME SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE FATHER BECAUSE HE IS THE ONLY INHERITED SON OF HIS FATHER AND BECAUSE HE INHERITED ALL FROM HIS FATHER AND HE HAS BOTH NATURES MAN AND DIVINE
THE FATHER COULD RECONCILE THE WORLD THROUGH JESUS TO HIMSELF after the world sinned and was unable to have eternal life
this is why Jesus is the mediator
this is why BY HIS NAME ONLY WE CAN REACH THE FATHER
Because He is the Son of God sent to us by the Father to redeem us through His blood
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son that whoever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
if we do not believe in the Fatherhood of the Father and the Son-ship of the Son the Bible tells us we do not know God and we cannot have everlasting life
1 John 2:22-26
22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the FATHER AND THE SON.
23 Whosoever denieth THE SON, the same hath not THE FATHER: he that acknowledgeth THE SON hath the FATHER ALSO.
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue IN THE SON, AND IN THE FATHER.
25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
1 John 5:12
12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life
if you really have the Son you will have the Father because the Father and the Son are not one being but they are 2 DISTINCT BEINGS
and the Father is IN CHRIST
as Jesus is IN us
and He told us be ye ONE EVEN AS MY FATHER AND I ARE ONE
are we one? we are many but HE MEANT UNITY in purpose and will and target
John 17:21
21 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.
22 And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, EVEN AS WE are one:
Jesus was very clear when He said the Father is His God
He did it before crucifiction
and
after crucifiction in Revelation 3
He calls the Father MY GOD IN ONE VERSE 4 TIMES
Jesus said My Father is Greater than me
The Bible clearly states that Jesus is the head of man and man is the head of the woman and God is the Head of Christ
the Jews killed Him because He said that HE IS THE SON OF GOD
satan doubted His Son-Ship telling Him twice "IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD"
The Father sent His voice twice to the earth and all the disciples witnessed when He said "THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED"
Jews persecuted Him for saying that He is the Son of God because they knew that making of Himself the Son of God will make Him equal to God
Peter's first confession was : YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD
when Jesus healed the Blind they kicked him our of the synagogue and Jesus asked him "DO YOU BELIEVE ON THE SON OF GOD?"
Paul's first preach was about JESUS THE SON OF GOD
Jesus was not saying that His Father is Greater than Him out of humbleness because HE DOES NOT LIE HE WAS SAYING THE TRUTH
when Jesus was on the cross the pharisees were saying HE SAID THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD LET HIM SAVE HIM HE SAID HE LOVES HIM
Jesus the SON OF GOD was against Jesus Barabbas (BAR MEANS SON ABBA MEANS THE FATHER) the Bible is clear that the SON OF GOD WAS STANDING NEXT TO THE son of the devil. Barabba is the son of his father the murderer which is satan
this was not by coincidence nothing is by coincidence
when Jesus died the first conclusion was "INDEED HE IS THE SON OF GOD"
Jesus' Son-ship is being destroyed by satan, people now believe in trinity, a doctrine which does not exist in the Bible at the year of 325 it was made by the Nicene creed and accepted by the church when nowhere the Bible says they are 3 persons
sure the Bible lists that there is THE FATHER THERE IS THE SON AND THERE IS THE HOLY SPIRIT but not as the Nicene creed explains it
the Father is the Father the actual Father of Jesus His Only Begotten Son and the Spirit is theirs and they both have it, it is from the Father in the Mediator His Son our Lamb and through the Lamb in us because it is the Spirit of the FATHER AND THE SON and when their Spirit comes in us they both come through it in the Spiritual form
and this is the meaning of the word ALLOS when Jesus was talking about Himself in another form and He explained it but because people are so blinded by men's doctrines they wouldn't take it seriously
we have been deceived, without the Son the ACTUAL SON we can never have the Father Who reconciled the world to Himself Through His Only Begotten Son
1 Corinthians 8:6King James Version (KJV)
6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and Hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the Word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21 For He Hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
Jesus always told us that He came FROM HIS Father A.N.D HIS FATHER sent Him TO US John 7:29 - John 8:42 - John 16:27-30 John 17:8
Proverbs 30:4 (tells us that God has a Son)
Proverbs 30:4
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
compare proverbs 30:4 with John 3:13-17 (you will understand)
Daniel 3:25-28 tells us that God has a Son through Nebuchadnezzar
Jesus is the Son of God, all the churches say that Jesus is the Son of God but reject it with their doctrines :
Catholics: Jesus is the ETERNAL Son of the Father
a son can never be an actual Son if He was with the Father at the same time
the SON CAME FORTH FROM THE FATHER AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS TOLD US
some protestant churches claim that Jesus is the Father and in saying this they deny the FATHER - SON RELATIONSHIP SAYING IT WAS ROLES PLAYING, MY QUESTION IS: DID JESUS LIE? THE FATHER SENT HIS OWN VOICE, THIS IS SERIOUS.
READ 1 CORINTHIANS 8:6
Ravi is briliant. But his brilliance is in confusing. If you can't convince them, you confuse them.
The Holy Trinity: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Great video brother.
To explain the Trinity we have to
address; 'Let us make Man in our own image'. That is not one Essence talking to Himself.
That is a plurality of God.
Therefore, the Trinity is made up of three distinct Spirits.
The Father. The Son. The Holy Ghost.
These three are One God in the sense of spiritual perfection. DIVINE.
Now i shall explain how it works.
The Will of the Father carried out by the Son through the Power of the Holy Spirit.
Simple.
How many clergymen have told you that?.
We don't need leaders who withold the truth from us.
I like your words, Mark.
In all matters, the Father's will is completed through the agency of the Son (Creation, Salvation, Judgement, Kingdom, even our very identity as His Body/Bride) through the power of the Holy Spirit.
And when the Son operates, He operates/operated by the will of the Father through the power of the Holy Spirit.
And when the Spirit speaks (of which He does quite extensively throughout the O&NT), He is speaking according to the will of the Father through the authority/Name of Jesus.
It's really not that difficult unless people want to malign the Deity of the Son and the Personhood of the Holy Spirit.
-Sean
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Praise God.l
In the beginning God. (1) and God said (spoke the word...refer John 1... and the word became flesh ) (2) Gen 1:2 And the Spirit (3) of God moved upon the face of the waters.
So God spoke the word and through the power in His word (Holy Spirit) all things were made.
You don't need leaders AT ALL!!!! You don't need preachers or clergymen or evangelists!!! YOU HAVE THE BIBLE!!!
And more importantly YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT!!! And don't forget WISDOM!!
All these people who expect men of this world to spoon feed the scriptures.
Stop being lazy Christians and start STUDYING the bible for yourselves!!!
Mark Rymanowski Some say, Trinity is 1 +1+1=3... I say Trinity is 1×1×1=1. Because Isaiah 9:6 says it. The Son is the Everlasting Father. God was God before, now, and forever. The same God before the world was, the same God who dwelt with man in the flesh, and the same God who's spirit is Holy(Holy Spirit). And he gave it to us all who believed in Jesus. And that he lives within us all Christians. God's power has no limit. All Glory to Jesus our King, Amen
Light is made up of seven colours.
Beautiful!!
My case is settled
Cares not of their hard speeches
I cannot get by without The Father, The Son And The Sweet Holy Spirit.
Hallelujah
Thank you, Dr. Ravi, like no other!!!
Wow thats helped me so much
When we see god face to face you say? Explain Exodus 33:20 sir please. Many people saw Jesus and lived.
The Christ came as one of us--He being the exact representation of His Being (Heb 1:1-3). We must remember that He came, chiefly, as the Last Adam to undo the dead works of the First Adam. And to become the Eternal Sacrifice in so doing.
That said, He also was the Word that dwelt among us (John 1:1-3, 14)--the only begotten Son of the Father. Although He was GOD, He came also as a Man.
And don't forget, many occasions in the OT the LORD appeared to persons who were not struck dead. But yes, if we stand before Him in His unrestrained holiness, we would melt standing there.
-Sean
There is so much more to know about the Trinity God in a book called "THE HOLY SPIRIT REVEALED".
God is God
This sounds like a very profound and complex explanation of the Godhead. I like the part about love in the Godhead. However the simple biblical explanation of the Godhead is this:
There Is One God, His Word And His Spirit
There is God the Father, his Word is his Son Jesus who is the Christ and his Spirit is the Holy Spirit. And being God's Word and God's Spirit they are both obviously also God.
김패티면순28분 전(1John2:24 ) Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father(Gen1:26)Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness
Kudos, one must read between the lines. Thing can be followed via meditation and broad mindedness.
Awesome explanation.
Where was this filmed?
Amen
To be a trinity being is to be three of the same essence in one that is how you can be a jus being. There is a balance to hold within.
Very complex explanation, I can't repeat that to people.
You can. I also thought it was complex when I first heard it. But having listened to it repeatedly, its beauty and common sense view--despite all critical responses--is worth reflecting on. God bless you, Boy!
Wow, you're part of a Foursquare body of believers? :) That's great! I went to a Foursquare College in USA! Such a great church and ambitious body of believers! Kamusta kayo po, Boy?
Yeah, Foursquare have very simple explanation of Trinity. Don't need to be apologetic. Trinity in God's creation like egg: 1) Egg Shell, 2) Egg White, and 3) Egg Yoke: One Egg in Three. Another example is man: created in the image of God: composed of body, soul, and spirit: three in one. 1 John 5:7 King James Version (KJV)
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
i HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR Mr. Ravi......however he sometimes answers a question that's pretty simple,.....with a long ,long explanation that a lot of people do not understand and kind of get lost. We know what the Holy Trinity is.........The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,.....what is the origin,or how it came to be?.......Well......some things we are NOT prepared to know yet,.......When God decides when we should know,....He will let us know...Some questions are too ridiculous to ask, and also to answer,....because no one really knows.
Thanks is good so Amen
There is no understanding of God, if one can't understand the love b/w father and the son. The father loves the son and the son loves the father. The father loves us that he even sacrificed the son, which he loves the most so that we all could be living with him. Its all about love and love only.
...in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost
RIP Ravi
Awesome
The way I understood the Trinity, bible said that we are created in his own image right?, we all know that human consist of body, spirit and soul, therefore God the Father, son and the holy spirit is God's unique way of existence just like human existing in body, soul and spirit , paying more attention to God's existence bcoz bible said that " he that is above is above all" , in revelation 1:, when the personality of Christ was revealed to john he said that " he is like the son of man, but there were other features he saw all together that differnciated him from human.God bless us all.Jesus is coming spoon....
Thanks for posting this awesome explanation video.
Deuteronomy 33:27 {The Father has always been}
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Jeremiah 23:24 {The Omnipresence of the Father}
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? Saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? Saith the LORD.
Proverbs 15 {The omniscience of the Father }
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
1 John 3:20
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Matthew 19 {The Omnipotence of The Father}
26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Malachi 3:6 {The Immutability of the Father}
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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Micah 5:2 { Jesus has always been }
But thou, Bethlehem Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Matthew 18:20 {The Omnipresence of the Son}
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Ephesians 4:10
He that descended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things
John 21:17 {The omniscience of the Son }
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, feed my sheep.
Colossians 2:3
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Matthew 28:18 {The Omnipotence of The Son}
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Revelation 1:8, 22:13, 16
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last…
I JESUS have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
Philippians 3:21
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Hebrews 13:8 {The Immutability of the Son}
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
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Hebrews 9:14 {The Holy Spirit has always been }
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?
Hebrews 9:14 {The Omnipresence of the Spirit}
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?
1 Corinthians 2:10 {The omniscience of the Spirit}
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 { The Omnipotence of The Spirit }
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 John 5:7
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
In His service,
Isaiah 42:8 48:11-12 {God will never share his glory}
I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, and I will not give my glory unto another. I am he; I am the first, I also am the Last.
Revelation 1: 8
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was and which is to come, the Almighty.
Philippians 2:5-7 {of what did he empty himself}
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man:
{The Greek reads as follows}
Who in form of God subsisting not rapinesteemed it to be equal with god;
but himself emptied.
John 14:28 {Jesus in human form occupies a lower position then the Father}
"You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved
me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.'"
Hebrews 2:9 {Jesus Humbled himself while walking among us}
But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels,
namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor,
so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone
Galatians 4:4 {Jesus set aside his divine nature to be born as a human}
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
John 17:5 {God shares his glory} {of his right to exercise his deity}
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Matthew 28:18 {which he takes up after the resurrection}
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power {authority} is given (surrendered) unto me in heaven and in earth.
Revelation 1: 11-14, 22:13, 16 {now Jesus takes his rightful position}
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: …
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;…
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man,
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last…
> have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
Revelation 1:17-18 {John states Jesus is the First and the Last?}
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, fear not; I am the first and last:
I am he that liveth, and was…………….. Dead, and, behold, I am alive for evermore, A-men; and have the keys of hell and of death
…..When did the First and the Last (GOD), the Beginning and the End (GOD), the Alpha and Omega (GOD) taste death?
Matthew 26:53 (Jesus was obedient to what was prophesied)
Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?
Daniel 7:13-14, (Daniel fore saw all this)
In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.”
…..This explains how Jesus created all
Hebrews 1:10 {The Father tells us the SON created all}
And, Thou, Lord, {kurios} in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.
Colossians 1:16-17 {Jesus created all things}
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature:
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth,
visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or
powers: all things were created by him. And for him: And he is before all things.
And by him all things consist.
John 1:1, 2,3,14 {John states}
All things through him came into being, and without him came into being not even one [thing] which has come into being.
And the Word flesh became, and tabernacled among us,
Isaiah 42:5 44:22 {God created all things} Psalm 104:5
Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heaven alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; Who laid the foundations of the earth,
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord God! Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
In His Service,
Beautiful explanation of the Trinity.
Yes, this was the best explanation.. You need a relationship to love someone.
The best explanation of the nature of the God Head is the Holy Spirits explanation.
Isaiah 42:8 48:11-12 {God will never share his glory}
I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, and I will not give my glory unto another. I am he; I am the first, I also am the Last.
Revelation 1: 8
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was and which is to come, the Almighty.
Philippians 2:5-7 {of what did he empty himself}
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man:
{The Greek reads as follows}
Who in form of God subsisting not rapinesteemed it to be equal with god;
but himself emptied.
John 14:28 {Jesus in human form occupies a lower position then the Father}
"You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved
me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.'"
Hebrews 2:9 {Jesus Humbled himself while walking among us}
But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels,
namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor,
so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone
Galatians 4:4 {Jesus set aside his divine nature to be born as a human}
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
John 17:5 {God shares his glory} {of his right to exercise his deity}
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Matthew 28:18 {which he takes up after the resurrection}
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power {authority} is given (surrendered) unto me in heaven and in earth.
Revelation 1: 11-14, 22:13, 16 {now Jesus takes his rightful position}
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: …
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;…
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man,
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last…
> have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
Revelation 1:17-18 {John states Jesus is the First and the Last?}
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, fear not; I am the first and last:
I am he that liveth, and was…………….. Dead, and, behold, I am alive for evermore, A-men; and have the keys of hell and of death
…..When did the First and the Last (GOD), the Beginning and the End (GOD), the Alpha and Omega (GOD) taste death?
Matthew 26:53 (Jesus was obedient to what was prophesied)
Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?
Daniel 7:13-14, (Daniel fore saw all this)
In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.”
…..This explains how Jesus created all
Hebrews 1:10 {The Father tells us the SON created all}
And, Thou, Lord, {kurios} in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.
Colossians 1:16-17 {Jesus created all things}
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature:
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth,
visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or
powers: all things were created by him. And for him: And he is before all things.
And by him all things consist.
John 1:1, 2,3,14 {John states}
All things through him came into being, and without him came into being not even one [thing] which has come into being.
And the Word flesh became, and tabernacled among us,
Isaiah 42:5 44:22 {God created all things} Psalm 104:5
Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heaven alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; Who laid the foundations of the earth,
Genesis 1:1 {The Holy Spirit states GOD created all}
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord God! Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
So Who is GOD ?
In His Service,
Hebrews 1:8 {the Father calls Jesus God} Psalm 45:6
But unto the Son he {God} saith,
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
Hebrews 1:6 {the Father tells the angels to worship Jesus}
And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world he {God} saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
John 20:28, 29 {Thomas calls Jesus God}
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
{ o Kurios mou kai o Theos mou } the definite article.
…..Does Jesus correct Thomas? No, he calls him blessed.
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Romans 9:5 {Paul calls Jesus GOD}
Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen…NIV
I Timothy 4:16
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.
Colossians 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Titus 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,
Philippians 2:5-7
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man:
John 1:1, 2,3,14 {John calls Jesus God}
In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.
He was in [the] beginning with God.
All things through him came into being, and without him came into being not even one [thing] which has come into being.
And the Word flesh became, and tabernacled among us,
..................Even the demon Al lah calls Jesus GOD (Islam)
"…O Mary! Behold, God gives you good news of a word from Him, who shall become known as the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary..." (Quran 3:45)
"…The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of God, and His word which He conveyed unto Mary..." (Quran 4:171)
"…God gives you good news of (a son whose name is) John, (who comes) to confirm a word from God…" (Quran 3:39)
..................As the demon mormo does too. (Mormonism)
Mosiah 13:34 { God took the form of man }
Have they not said that God himself should come down among the children of men, and take upon him the form of man, and go forth in mighty power upon the face of the earth.
Mosiah 4:2, {Jesus took the form of man }
....for we believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God , who created heaven and earth and all things: who shall come down among the children of men..
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Matthew 1:23 (Matthew calls Jesus GOD}
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Acts 20:28 {Luke calls Jesus God}
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
2 Peter 1:1 {Peter calls Jesus God}
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
Isaiah 7:14 {The Holy Spirit calls Jesus God}
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Exodus 3:13-14 (the Father states he is I AM THAT I AM)
And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, what is his name? What shall I say unto them?
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
John 8:58 10:30-36 {John states Jesus said he is I AM}
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM.
John 8:24
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
So who is HE ? a man, God or God man
In His service,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARE BROTHER.
you ever think about lungs, heart and brain that works differently but in one body? Holy Trinity is logical, kind of complex but we'll know it when we see lord our God's true face