Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!”
I read an interesting
article today that the doctrinal and principle truths taught of the Trinity
(our Trinitarian Creator) is an essential part of the Christian faith and the
biblical gospel. The article stated that when we begin talking about the
Trinity, we are entering into one of the deepest mysteries of the Christian
faith, as the finite human minds consider the nature of the infinite God Himself.
Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Nevertheless, although the Trinity is a
mystery we will never fully understand, the fact that it is a mystery does not
mean that we cannot understand it at all. God has revealed Himself in His Word
and He has sent His Spirit to illuminate our minds and give us understanding
from above of this Word. Therefore, we can say much about the Trinity, even if
this biblical doctrine tells us that the Creator is far more complex than any
of us can imagine.
1 Corinthians 2:6-16 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the
mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the
rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we
declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has
been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time
began. None of the rulers of this age understood
it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as
it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear
has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the
things God has prepared for those who love him — these are the things God has revealed to us by his
Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even
the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their
own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the
thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have
received is not the spirit of the world, but the
Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what
we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words
taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the
things that come from the Spirit of God but
considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned
only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes
judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human
judgments, for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to
instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Christians speak of three persons
in the one Godhead because that is how Scripture reveals this truth. We begin
first with the biblical affirmation of monotheism. 1 x 1 x 1 = 1. From Genesis
to Revelation, the Bible is clear that there is but one God who alone is to be
worshipped and served without hesitation. Deuteronomy 6:4 is perhaps the
clearest statement of this fact. It does not simple mean that there is one God
for Israel
Deuteronomy 4:39 New “Therefore know this day, and consider it in your
heart, that the Lord Himself is God in
heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.”
Christian monotheism is vastly different from
other religions. We are not Unitarians who simply have a different name for the
same God others worship. Those who deny the Trinity deny the deity of Jesus
Christ and of the Holy Spirit and, thus, deny the one true God. Only believing
in the God the Father, God the Son and God the Hoy Spirit by faith grants us
access to heaven. Monotheism means that God can meet all our needs because He
needs nothing from any other source. Let us understand that God is one, and let
us therefore rejoice.
1 comment:
No Bian, the trinity doctrine is not true.
There is only one God and that is the Lord Jesus Christ, and beside Him is no other God.
A wise man once said:
“ in fact the Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one is so incomprehensible to the human mind that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea. he who thinks he does , Start insertion, only, End, deceives himself. he proves also that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.
Thomas Jefferson to James Smith 8 Dez. 1822.
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