Comments on: The Trinity http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/ A Ministry of Shepherds' Fellowship Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:33:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Damien T. Garofalo http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/#comment-14454 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:10:11 +0000 http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/#comment-14454 Great article on the Trinity! As a fundamentalist, I'm saddened by the lack of trinitarian sermons I've heard the last few years. I've been having a discussion with a JW relative of mine, and in response to her I began to write a Bible verse study dealing with the deity and distinction of the Three Persons, and it came out a lot longer than I had anticipated, because, quite frankly, the Word of God has much to say about it! Anyway, I published it on our new website, and if anyone is interested, you can find it on www.contendfortruth.com/writings/bible and it is given in 4 parts as "the biblical concept of the Triune God". Feedback welcome! Great article on the Trinity! As a fundamentalist, I’m saddened by the lack of trinitarian sermons I’ve heard the last few years.

I’ve been having a discussion with a JW relative of mine, and in response to her I began to write a Bible verse study dealing with the deity and distinction of the Three Persons, and it came out a lot longer than I had anticipated, because, quite frankly, the Word of God has much to say about it!
Anyway, I published it on our new website, and if anyone is interested, you can find it on www.contendfortruth.com/writings/bible and it is given in 4 parts as “the biblical concept of the Triune God”. Feedback welcome!

]]> by: Steve Scott http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/#comment-10731 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:43:31 +0000 http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/#comment-10731 It's amazing just how much of God's creation is patterned after His very own nature, the nature of the Trinity. God is both the Whole, and the Parts to the Whole at the same time. Unity and diversity, one and many. Neither God's oneness nor his tri-personness is more important; both are equal in importance. Communism is bad because it emphasizes the community at the expense of the individual, and radical anarchy is bad because it does the opposite. True Christian culture emphasizes both equally (in the church both the body and the members that make up the body are equal), because it is patterned after the Trinity. I think when Paul admonished us to be imitators of God, he had more than our personal Christlikeness in mind. We should pattern our institutions, our organizations our art, music and other things we create after the nature of the Trinity. Because the Trinity is eternal, we will have a longer lasting impression on the culture around us. It’s amazing just how much of God’s creation is patterned after His very own nature, the nature of the Trinity. God is both the Whole, and the Parts to the Whole at the same time. Unity and diversity, one and many. Neither God’s oneness nor his tri-personness is more important; both are equal in importance. Communism is bad because it emphasizes the community at the expense of the individual, and radical anarchy is bad because it does the opposite. True Christian culture emphasizes both equally (in the church both the body and the members that make up the body are equal), because it is patterned after the Trinity. I think when Paul admonished us to be imitators of God, he had more than our personal Christlikeness in mind. We should pattern our institutions, our organizations our art, music and other things we create after the nature of the Trinity. Because the Trinity is eternal, we will have a longer lasting impression on the culture around us.

]]> by: The Trinity « The Expositor http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/#comment-10650 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:10:38 +0000 http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/#comment-10650 [...] The Trinity Published March 7th, 2007 Theology John MacArthur, Pulpit Magazine [...] […] The Trinity Published March 7th, 2007 Theology John MacArthur, Pulpit Magazine […]

]]> by: Seth McBee http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/#comment-10581 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:11:55 +0000 http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/#comment-10581 Josh. I had this very same discussion over at my blog on what is needed to be known to be saved? Take a look if it pleases you... http://contendearnestly.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-must-i-do-to-be-saved.html As far as the deity of the Holy Spirit. If one denies the deity of the Holy Spirit they are also denying the deity of Christ and of the Father. For both say that they are sending "Their Spirit." If this is the case the Spirit must be deity...and there are a lot of other verses that point to the Spirit's deity. I would also recommend White's book, "The Forgotten Trinity" very good read on the Spirit's deity. Josh.
I had this very same discussion over at my blog on what is needed to be known to be saved? Take a look if it pleases you…

http://contendearnestly.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-must-i-do-to-be-saved.html

As far as the deity of the Holy Spirit. If one denies the deity of the Holy Spirit they are also denying the deity of Christ and of the Father. For both say that they are sending “Their Spirit.” If this is the case the Spirit must be deity…and there are a lot of other verses that point to the Spirit’s deity.

I would also recommend White’s book, “The Forgotten Trinity” very good read on the Spirit’s deity.

]]> by: Josh http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/#comment-10561 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:33:42 +0000 http://www.sfpulpit.com/2007/03/06/the-trinity/#comment-10561 Do you think knowledge of the trinity is an essential for salvation? Christ clearly teaches that if someone doesn't believe Him to be God, then that person is condemned - John 8:24, "...for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins." So we must believe in the deity of Christ to be saved. But what if someone believed in one God, that the Father and Son were distinct, and that both the Father and the Son are God, but denied the personhood of the the Spirit? Can we consider that person to be saved? It would obviously be unorthodox, but I can't think of a specific verse that would exclude them from salvation. And just for the record, I do believe in the trinity, but am trying to come to a better understanding of those truths that are necessary for a saving faith. Do you think knowledge of the trinity is an essential for salvation?

Christ clearly teaches that if someone doesn’t believe Him to be God, then that person is condemned - John 8:24, “…for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” So we must believe in the deity of Christ to be saved.

But what if someone believed in one God, that the Father and Son were distinct, and that both the Father and the Son are God, but denied the personhood of the the Spirit? Can we consider that person to be saved? It would obviously be unorthodox, but I can’t think of a specific verse that would exclude them from salvation.

And just for the record, I do believe in the trinity, but am trying to come to a better understanding of those truths that are necessary for a saving faith.

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