Blessed and True Trinity

The Importance and Difficulty of The Trinity

The Trinity may be one of the hardest doctrines in the church to talk about. I personally think it is this and the hypostatic union of Christ or the ability for Jesus to be fully God and fully with no dilution or mingling. To be true there is some of that in here.

This is because it is easier to talk about what the Trinity is not than what it is.

Errors:

Modalism

Adoptionism

Partialism

Modalism

Adoptionism

Partialism

Athanasian Creed

We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is all one: the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.

And in this Trinity none is afore or after other; none is greater or less than another; but the whole three Persons are coeternal and coequal.

What is the trinity then?

One Being - Three Persons

I am one human being that is my being. A being has:

Three persons - God is three persons. A person has:

The Father is God

The Son is God

The Spirit is God

Look at the Shema

Show how in the Old Testament each one is referred to as God. Jesus more than likely as the angel of the Lord.

Jesus as creator in Colossians, I think