Quote:
Originally Posted by Praxeas
This is a statement found on a website
Spirit of Fire Evangelistic Ministries
We Believe:
In the One True God, who reveals Himself in three distinct persons; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The Three being one and equal and eternally self existent as the Great "I AM."
http://www.spiritoffire.org/statementoffaith.html
I wonder how many Trinitarians agreed?
My question here is this...if a "he" is a person why do Trinitarians so often say "reveals HIMSELF in three distint persons"? as though God is one person revealed in three persons? Why not say "reveals itself"? Or why say that at all since revealing might be best said to be an attribute of a person....why not say "Father, Son and Holy Ghost reveals themselves as God"? |
Because God is one Being.
In Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity states that God is one being who exists, simultaneously and eternally, as a mutual indwelling of three persons: the Father, the Son (incarnate as Jesus of Nazareth), and the Holy Spirit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity
Does that help any?
I guess a Trinitarian could ask why you ignore the distinctions between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit when they are clearly seen in scripture?
Joh 14:26 "But
the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom
the Father will send in
My name,
He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that
I said to you.