Posted by Bible Probe on July 01, 2005 at 17:13:59:
In Reply to: Re: Bible versus showing Jesus is also God (one with the Father) posted by Michael estes on July 01, 2005 at 17:12:34:
Yes Michael, Christians also believe there is only 1 God. But this one God has 3 natures (Triune).
Genesis 1:26 (4000 B.C.): "And God said, Let us make man in our image."
Proverbs 30:4 (written 700 B.C.): "...What is His name, and what is His son's name, if thou canst tell?"
It seems that we have a problem similar to that which confronted Arius, the fourth-century heretic who made the Council of Nicea necessary. Arius could not believe that it made any sense that Christians worship a God who is three Persons. The doctrine of the Trinity offended his sense of mathematical purity, a purity based upon a simplistic, undeveloped underestanding.
First, understand - God is spirit and light.
Take 3 spotlights and aim them at the same place. Out of 3comes one.
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
(written: 712 BC/before Christ)
The Trinity is a doctrine revealed clearly in the scr1ptures, and understood to be true by the Church in every age. No one claims to understand the Trinity fully, but rather to understand the doctrine of the Trinity that has been revealed to the Church, for the first would be to fully understand God, which we cannot do, and the second is to understand what he has said, which we can.
The Christian artist Johann Sebastian Bach did something, however, that theologians and scholars cannot do with all of the words of every language. Bach did not refute Arius; instead, he showed musically how the problem that vexed Arius could be solved. The "St. Anne" Fugue does not explain the truth; it demonstrates it with mathematical complexity, and yet with the simplicity of genius.
Is the "St. Anne" Fugue one or three? The answer, which every ear can hear for itself, is that "these three are one."
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God bless you!
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