Very well.
I will yield and allow you to do so.
I am very uninformed on the trinity.
Please present the "teaching" from the Bible that God is three persons and I will happily embrace the concept.
Please prove your position.
Thanks and God bless.
Thanks for replying back to me, I really appreciate it and I am more than happy to honor your request. First of all there are a number of ways to prove the Trinity is a Biblical teaching. We already know that there is one God, period. This one God chose to reveal Himself as three distinct persons. Not three gods, not three different persons, not three people as some have said, not three different forms, but three distinct persons.
The Bible is clear that God is identified by (1) His name, (2) His titles, (3) His unique attributes (or nature), (4) His unique actions, and (5) His worship.
For example, His titles: God, Lord, King or King of kings, Savior, Alpha and Omega, First and Last etc. Isaiah 43:11, "I, even I, am the Lord; And there is no savior besides Me. In the New Testament Jesus is identified as the Savior at Luke 2:11. Jesus is also the "Alpha and Omega, and the First and Last at Revelation 1:8 and at Revelation 1:17-18. You can read these verses for yourself.
How about God's unique attributes? Isaiah 44:24, "Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, I, the Lord am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens BY MYSELF, And spreading out the earth, ALL ALONE." In the New Testament. Jesus Christ is identified as the creator as well. John 1:3, Colossians 1:16, Hebrews 1:10 by His own Father, and Revelation 3:14. Again, you can read these verses yourself. Are you beginning to get the picture?
How about one more. His unique names. Called YHWH and its variants, either directly or indirectly, usually both. Of course we already know God the Father is called God. The Son is called God by Thomas at John 20:28, By the Apostle Peter at 2 Peter 21. By the Apostle Paul at Titus 2:13. And again by His own Father at Hebrews 1:8. What about the Holy Spirit? He is called God at Acts 5:3-4.
Now, it's very important to realize that God also chose to reveal Himself as a human being in the person of Jesus Christ. This is explained at Philippians 2:5-8. "Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, vs6. who, although (the word although means in spite of the fact) He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, vs7, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant/man, and being made in the likeness of men."
This means that Jesus Christ was already God in form and then took on the form of a man. So when people say for instance, "If Jesus is God how come He did not know the day of His own return? Or if Jesus Christ is God, why does He pray to His God? The answer is that Jesus was functioning as a 100% contingent human being. That is He depended on His Father in all things. Moreover, you will notice the Father keeps giving credibility to His Son. Mark 1:11 and at other places.
I will stop for now and let you digest what the Bible states. Please read the references I gave to get the full thrust of their meaning. Anymore questions I will be happy to address. You can ask me anything.
IN GOD THE SON,
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