THREE PERSONS, ONE GOD,....................... FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT

       "In the beginning God created  the heaven and the
      earth.  And  the  earth was  without  form, and  void;                  
     and darkness was upon the  face of  the deep.  And 
     the Spirit of God moved upon  the face of the waters. 
     And God said, 'let there be light'.  And  God saw the
     light, that it was good; and God divided the light from
     the darkness. And God called the light Day, and  the
     darkness he called  Night.  And the evening and the 
         morning were the first day." Genesis 1: 1-5, kjv   
   

      The Scripture quoted above covers the beginning,
or creation of  the earth and universe as we know it.
Outside of  the Bible, we  could not  know events  of
prehistory.   Scripture  is  our  only  source.  Every-
thing outside of the Scripture is sheer conjecture.  It
is not  wise to speculate about  that  since  it has, in
the past, led  to the development of cults, witchcraft,
and  fanciful stories with no basis in  fact.  We must
recognize that our  faith is in  the God of  the  Bible,
and  the validity of  Scripture.  The Lord  God is the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit; three persons,one God.

   Our salvation is based on faith in these things that
reveal to us our Lord Jesus Christ, who obtained our
salvation through  his  sacrificial death on the cross.
There  are, however,  proofs  as  one  absorbs  God's
Word, believes it and acts on  that belief.  The proofs
are  highly  individual and  personal, even subjective.
We  do  not  "look"  for  proofs, since  the  truths  of
God's Word,  must be accepted  by  faith.  The proof
appears as  we place  faith in  God and in his Word.
We then have a growing assurance of these things as
we mature in the faith and see what our Lord does. 

    Scripture knows nothing of the word, "Trinity," 
    since  the word is not used in the Bible in refe-
    rence  to  the  persons of  the Godhead.  Three 
   persons of  God are called Jehovah, God, God
   the  Father,  God  the  Spirit, God  the  Son  or
   Jesus Christ.  He is also the Spirit of  Jesus the
   Christ, and  the  Holy Spirit.  There  are  times
   when He is called  Lord (Jehovah) or the Lord
   God.  These  names are  translations  from the
   Hebrew and  Greek into English.  Understood
  properly each furnishes insight into the person 
  of God, who is Spirit. He has been made mani-
  fest in the person of Jesus Christ, God the Son, 
  in the New Testament. There are pre-incarnate 
manifestations of God the Son in the Old Testa-
ment.  One is thought to be "Michael," an arch-
angel, then  King  Melchisedec, to  whom Abra-
ham paid tribute on his return from the slaugh-
ter of the  kings, Genesis 14: 18, Hebrews 5: 4, 
and in Luke 20:37-38

 But even Moses showed in the burning bush pas-   
sage that the  dead are raised, when he called the
Lord 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and
the  God of Jacob.'  For He is not the God of  the 
dead but of the living, for all live to Him. 

   "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and
they follow me.  And I  give unto them eternal life;
and they shall never perish, neither shall any man
pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave
them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to
pluck  them  out  of  my  Father's  hand.  I and  my 
Father are one."  John 10: 27-30, kjv

      "Ye worship ye know not what; we  know 
     what we worship.  
     For salvation is of the Jews. But the hour                    
      cometh, and now is, when the true wor-
     shiper shall worship the Father in spirit 
    and in truth:  For the Father seeketh such 
     to worship him. 
    God is a Spirit; and they that worship him                    
     must worship him in Spirit and in truth."  
                                          John 4: 22-25, kjv

        There are many ways in which facets of the
       character and personality of  the Lord God
       are revealed.  One memorable instance was
       when Jesus is called the 'Word Made Flesh'
       in John 1:14, and called "the only begotten  
       of the Father, full of grace and truth."

   Since  He is of  the of  the Father,  He is Deity 
(God);  Although He became a man, flesh, even
in flesh, as a man, He retained as  much of  the
glory of God, which He had with the Father, as
could be safely viewed by mankind.  
                                                    John 14: 6-7
  
 Reads as follows: 
 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth 
   and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, 
    but by me.  If ye had known me, ye should 
 have known my Father also; and from hence-
   forth ye know him, and have seen him." 
                                                   John 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."     
                               See also John 17: 21

      I trust you understand the above is not intended
to be exhaustive, or a complete  explanation of the
three  persons  of  God.  There is  one God.  As  we
are able,  we will add to this post.  In order for the
truth of the matter to be real to you; find it by your
own  research and study of  the Word of God, and
reading books on the subject by renowned authors
who are trusted  by Bible scholars.  You may start
with:                      
                             Charles Spurgeon,
                             J. Oswald  Sanders, 
                             Francis Schaeffer,
                             W. A. Criswell,  
                             Elton Trueblood; 
to name just a few... 

God bless and keep you by His mercy and grace
through faith in Christ Jesus.

 "But without faith it is impossible to please him;
For he who comes to God must believe that He is
and that He is a rewarded of those who diligently
 seek Him."  Hebrews 11:6  


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