Christian Beliefs About The Trinity and Creation

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The Scrripture makes it clear that there is only one God. "I am the Lord and there is no other; there is no God besides me"(Isa 45:5). There are many other references that could be given about the oneness of God like the verses found in Isaiah 46:9; 1 Corinthians 8:5-6; and Galatians 4:8-9.

Having started by highlighting that there is only one God, we now see that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit all have divine attributes. All three Persons are called God, all three Persons are the Creator, and all three Persons are eternal.

One could go on and on listing divine characteristics of the Trinity. All three have the Attributes of God, yet there is only one God. The only way we can reconcile these facts is to understand the concept of the Trinity---one God, three Persons. It is also clear from the analysis that the doctrine os the Trinity is not something gathered from just one verse out of context, the concept is derived by examining scripture as a whole. This makes it a very certain and scriptural doctrine.

Beliefs About The Trinity-and-creation

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