The trinity, one Lord and God
Trying to describe the trinity and the oneness of God is difficult, because the more one tries using earthly ideas the more one is aware of doing God and injustice.
God's word must define God, so let's see what God says about Himself regarding this matter.
At the outset God speaks about Himself as a plural being. Yet He is one.
For example:
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.Gen 1:26
”Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”–Gen 3:22
“Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”Gen 11:7
One Lord
Deuteronomy 6:3-4“Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you–‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!"
Knowing Jesus is knowing The Father
John 14:8-10 "Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works."
John1:1-4 we read "IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.He was in the beginning with God.All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."
Who is this word? John 1:11-15 "He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’ ”
And the word became flesh means God became flesh. Jesus we read in Matt 1:22-23 is Emmanuel (God with us) this is the prophecy given through Isaiah 7:14.
The Old Testament must be understood in light of the New Testament. So we read.
Isaiah 44:24 says "Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;"
Col 1:12-19 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,
Clearly scripture defines Father and Son as one, the creator and sustainer.
to be continued...
