Apologetics Lesson 7 | The Trinity
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TRINITY
The Trinity and Scripture
The Trinity and Scripture
Within Scripture the doctrine of the Trinity serves to demonstrate that it is the Triune God who accomplishes salvation—through the calling of the Father, the incarnation of the Son, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. This promised salvation, which the Old Testament anticipates, the New Testament proclaims as revelation and accomplishment.
- Lexham Survey of Theology
The Trinity exists eternally as one God in three persons, whose unity is not merely in will or action, but in substance (Greek: ousia). This unity of the Godhead is a doctrine that emerges from Scripture and is clarified in the Greek term homoousios utilized by the Niceno- Constantinopolitan Creed
- Lexham Survey of Theology
Tertullian (155-200 A.D.) Coins the phrase Trinity in the Latin Trinitas
Scriptures:
Scriptures:
Plurality of the God Head
Plurality of the God Head
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
Suggestions of 3 Persons
Suggestions of 3 Persons
“Come near to Me, hear this:
I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there.
And now the Lord God and His Spirit
Have sent Me.”
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
The Angel of the Lord
The Angel of the Lord
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.”
So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.”
New Testament Proof of the Tri-Unity
New Testament Proof of the Tri-Unity
When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”
Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
Jude 1:20-21
Equality of 3 persons
Equality of 3 persons
Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
But to the Son He says:
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
Keywords:
Keywords:
Monotheism
Ouisia = Substance
Co-Equal
Co-Eternal
Plurality of the Trinity
Shema - to listen
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!
The "plurality of the Trinity" refers to the Christian theological concept that while there is only one God, this God exists as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit, meaning there is a "plurality" of persons within the divine unity of God.
1. Define Trinity.
2. God is ______, not ________; three in one, not _________ parted.
3. The doctrine of the Trinity asserts that ______ God exists indivisibly and eternally as ________, _________, and Holy Spirit. God is _________ persons in one essence.
4. The divine nature subsists in three distinctions- ___________, _________ and _________________.
5. One of the greatest criticisms of the doctrine of the _________ is that the word is not found in the _________.
6. What does “Elohim” mean.
7. The OT stressed the _________ of God, and the OT saints were strict ___________.
8. Mattew 28:19- Baptism Formula: “In the name of ___________, the _________, and the ___________ _______”.
9. There is no ______ order in the naming of the Godhead. That is, the names Father, Spirit and Son are given in different orders.
10. Jesus also called himself the “son of man,” that is, he was a man. Thus, the phrase “_______ ________ _______” implies that Jesus partakes of the _______ of God.
11. Jesus repeatedly said that he came to do the ________ will, not his _______. (Mark 14:36; John 5:19).
12. God the Son and God the Holy Spirit do the will of God the Father. The Father is _______, the son is the ______; and the Spirit is the __________ agent. (Ephesians 2:18)
13. What is Tri-theism?
The Trinity Answer Key
14. What is Modalism?
15. What is Arianism?
16. The term “only begotten” could be translated “______-and- ________.”
17. The term “first born” is based on the OT idea that the first-born son inherits a _________ portion of the father’s estate and other privileges unique to the first-born son.
18. Christ is the ________ of the church and supreme over all, and is thus the _______ born.
