An Insight On The Trinity

Jesus & The Father Are One And The Same In Essence

8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” 9 Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? -John 14:8-9 BSB

When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You. -John 17:1 BSB

4 I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed. -John 17:4-5 BSB

I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one. -John 17:11 BSB

But about the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom. -Hebrews 1:8 BSB

The Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father. Who is the Father? The Father is God. Let’s see how it looks like putting God instead of the Father and putting Jesus in place of the Son.

God is in Jesus and Jesus is in God (John 14:10-11). That’s what Hebrews 1:8 & John 14:10-11 reveals.

Here is an illustration to make the concept of the Trinity clear

The human body is comprised of three different components with one brain. You have the human flesh, the human bones, and the human spirit. If a person can separate himself into those three different components, the flesh, the bones, and the spirit, all three will contain the same brain. So, let’s say that Johnny separated himself. Whichever you speak to, his flesh, his bones, or his spirit, you will still be talking to Johnny because all three have the same brain.

The brain represents the mind, will, desires, and the essence of who God is. There is One essence existing as three persons. In other words, God exists as three different persons, but all three are the one true God. All three have the same mind. Whoever of the Godhead you talk to, you are talking to God Himself. That is what Jesus told Philip in John 14:8-9.

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. -Genesis 1:27 BSB

Even the human body, in a way, contains the concept of the Trinity.

I hope that this will be a blessing to you and help you to understand the Trinity better, and that this will also help you to explain it to others with biblical references.

The Triune God: The Father, The Son, And The Holy Spirit

The Trinity

The Trinity in Deuteronomy 6:4

The Trinity is not only mentioned but revealed in Deuteronomy 6:4

First of all, let’s see what the word Trinity means. Trinity means that there is one God who exists as three persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit all three being one God, Yahweh.

Biblically, this is seen in:

1. Genesis 1:1, Isaiah 44:24, Isaiah 45:18–God as Creator; John 1:1-3, Colossians 1:16–Jesus as Creator
2. Isaiah 43:11–There exist no other Savior besides God; Acts 4:8-12, John 14:6–There exist no other Savior besides Jesus Christ
3. John 20:28–Jesus is literally called God; John 14:7-9–Jesus plainly tells Philip that He is God because Philip asks to see God and Jesus replies that he is looking at God
4. Deuteronomy 30:6–God is the one to circumcise the heart of men so that they may be new; Romans 2:29–The Holy Spirit is the one to circumcise the heart of men so that they may be new
5. Acts 5:3-4–The Holy Spirit is called God because both are used in the context as if you have lied to the one you have lied to the other, both being one and the same.

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Who is the Messiah?

The Messiah to come into the world as said in the Old Testament is to be God Himself.

Malachi 4:4-6

4 “Remember the instruction of Moses My servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. 5 Look, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome Day of the LORD comes. 6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

1. LORD all caps refers to Yahweh

2. Elijah refers to John the Baptist (Matthew 17:10-13)

John the Baptist came in the ministry of Elijah for the sole purpose to make the people’s heart open and ready to receive Yahweh when He would come in human flesh in the person of Jesus Christ.

Now we can understand Deuteronomy 6:4 which says, 4 “Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One (Echad).

The Hebrew word for “One” is a unified One. In the Hebrew language, there are two different words to say the word one, but in English, there is just one word to say one. Below you will see both examples of those words

1. Echad which means for an example: There’s “one” team out in the field or as “one” men together. A group of people that are considered as one is the idea behind the word “Echad”
2. Yachid which means a numeric “one”, a literal one, for an example: I have one pencil left or there’s only one person in the house.

Deuteronomy 6:4 uses the word Echad to say the LORD is One. God was trying to show that He exists as a plural but even in that plurality, He is still one God NOT many. We see this in Matthew 28:18-20 which says, 18 Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

As you can see in verse 19, Jesus uses a word that’s singular to describe 3 persons just like the word “one” in Deut. 6:4.

To say that God cannot manifest Himself as three persons is not only limiting Him to our understanding but we have made up our own God who is foreign to Scripture. God is an infinite being who is beyond our comprehension who is the I AM. In the same way, we accept the fact that God is in every single believer at the same time but yet some would deny Him being as three.

 

If we would fully understand the nature of God then He wouldn’t be God.