How God Is Revealed
There are ways God is revealed to us humans. From those ways we can find our own identity. One way God is revealed is through the Trinity. The creed, Incarnation, and God’s miracles help us find God’s identity. If God is revealed through the Trinity we can use his identity to find our own because we are made in his image.
The Trinity is the central mystery in the Catholic faith(CCC,#261). The Trinity is three persons in one. The trinity can be thought as three expressions. God the Father who is beyond us and he is beyond our limit of human nature. God the Son, who is among us and came down to save us from sin. He takes our human nature and he is fully divine. The third is God the Holy Spirit, who is within us(busted halo).
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John explains the Incarnation as the three unity.”By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God” (John 1:4:2). The Trinity reveals God in the Incarnation. The Incarnation is Mary being conceived by the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit is revealed by impregnating Mary. Through God and his powers he made God the Son. The Pope talked about the catechesis meaning of Incarnation, comparing Adam to Jesus and calling him the second Adman. This was a new beginning and God’s plan being fully revealed as a human. In the Nicene Creed his unity is revealed once again. God the Father is the maker of heaven and earth. God the Son came down from heaven and saved us from sin. God the Holy Spirit works with the Father and Son to speak to us. The Trinity helps us identify God’s work and his
“The word "Incarnation"comes from the Latin words "in" and "carnis" which means “flesh."" Flesh is the solid part of our being, the part that we can see and touch, in contrast to our mind, soul, and spirit” According to John 4:24, God in his natural form is a spirit. In God’s plan of salvation, “it was necessary for the Son of God to be revealed to humankind in ways that they could see and touch, and so the Incarnation was a part of the plan-- placing the eternal, immortal, invisible Son of God in a body of flesh”(Lehigh, David). According to the Catholic Church, “The Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human.
...nity. The Holy Spirit allows human beings to become closer to God, and the relationship between the Father and the Son. After writing about both the Trinity and Salvation, I have learned that they are immensely interconnected. The Trinity allows human beings to find Salvation. All in all, the Trinity is not three separate parts, but one part with three different essences.
The first revelation (Chapters IV to IX) is the revelation of “His precious crowning with thorns” and Jesus’s love for all that He made by dying on the cross for His people. When He left earth the Holy Spirit came down to dwell among us. St. Julian is brought to understand the death, resurrection, and the incarnation of Christ. She is also led to see that our God is a Triune God. Our heavenly Father is made up of three parts: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each person is distinctly different but together they make up one God identical in essence. The three persons of God remain in unity and
The Bible never makes of the specific reference of the trinity, the Bible does talk about the divine existence of each of the three members of the Trinity, God (The Father), The Son (Jesus Christ), and the Spirit (The Holy Spirit). It is still a complex idea for me to understand fully but scripture does indeed tell of the work and existence of the trinity.
We know that Christ is someone unique and distinct in many ways from every other man, especially in his incarnation. This word Incarnation basically means `made flesh'. This passage shows the unique and miraculous events which were involved in Christ's incarnation.
In the fifth discourse, the Son of God is described to further reflect himself about his unique and intimate eternal activity. First the author describes the production of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is said to be the bond between the divine persons. And the Son of God wanted his own person to be the producer. This would be the bond between the human and the divine being. The author describes the Holy Spirit as being a person that proceeds from the Holy Trinity. It is the bond that creates a sense of unity among the divine Persons and that they are perfectly united in the “unity of the Holy Spirit” yet they still are able to maintain their distinct natures (pg 134). The author also mentions two mysteries. The first mystery is described as having a divine person whom we adore, uniting two persons. And the second mystery is described as having a divine person whom we adore by uniting the two natures, one which is divine and the other being human. “He contemplates, adores and imitates the unity of the Holy Spirit, who is the third Person in the order of the Holy Trinity and who, by his nature, is the eternal bond between the two Persons from whom he proceeds.” (pg 135). All together the Son of God is our personal love and sacred unity. He is uniquely expressed and distinctly represented by “the states and qualities of this divine mystery, which is in a perfect relationship with what is ineffable in eternity, as well as being a living portrait of God” (135).
After God makes the earth he appears as spirit in it and hovers around the waters, Genesis 1 vs 2 states that, “the earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” One example of the presence of the triune God can be found right at the beginning of Jesus' public activity, when, at His baptism, the Father and the Holy Spirit attest to the sending of the incarnate Son of God. After he is baptized, the spirit of God appears in spirit and mentions in front of John the Baptist and the people that were there that Jesus is the son. Mathew 3vs 16 and 17 supports that, “As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” As shown here, we are shown that the Son of God, holy spirit and God works in unity with the to protect and love human beings. The son of God Jesus is born through the engaging of the holy spirit and the human being. The book of Mathew quotes in chapter 1 vs 18, “this is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy
The doctrine of incarnation is a fundamental teaching in traditional Christianity, stating that Jesus Christ and God are one, as the Son is the Father incarnated in human flesh. This affirms that Jesus is paradoxically both fully God and fully human. While there is abundant evidence in the Bible to support the belief in the doctrine, and it is the widely accepted view, still opposition has come against incarnation, branding it intrinsically contradictory. In “Homoousios with the Father” Heron discusses the necessity of incarnation through the study of the word ‘homoousios’; the word provides basic understanding of Jesus’ oneness and equality with God. This sameness is not something that can be comprehended; the attempt to convey the relationship
In Christianity one of their primary beliefs is the idea of a Triune God, which means the belief of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as one entity not three separate beings. This would result in God being indivisible and could not be divided into three different parts for an ...
In John 10:30 Jesus says; “I and the Father are One.” By this, He meant that He and God were the same. For example, God and the Son of God both created everything (1 Corinthians 8:6) (Morgan, 211–212). The Holy Spirit is also God too, as one can read in 1 John 5:7–8: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” This Holy Divinity is called the Trinity- a group of three, as One. “In the name of the Trinity the living God is revealed” (Robinson, 187) This Trinity is God, the Father, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit. “The Triune God is an all-sufficient God, all-sufficient for Himself and all-sufficient for His people” (Robinson,
If each person of the Trinity is distinct and yet fully God, it is apparent that some confusion may come about on how there might be more than one God. Although, we should not be confused, for in scripture it is clear that there is only one God. According to scripture, “There is no other God besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me. Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other" (Isaiah 45:21-22; Exodus 15:11; Deuteronomy 4:35; 6:4-5; 32:39; 1 Samuel 2:2; 1 Kings 8:60). Having seen that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are distinct Persons, that they are each fully God, and that there is nonetheless only one God, we must conclude that all three Persons are the same God. In other words, there is one God who exists as three distinct Persons.
How do we, as the church, learn to teach the Trinity in its full meaning? More so, how do we teach the Trinity as that God is all of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and not just Father, or Son, or Holy Spirit? In doing so will this be the step required
All three, God, the son, and the Holy Spirit are one, which is love. A Christian’s core belief system basically boils down to what’s in the heart and in the heart should be nothing but love. Unfortunately, our heart’s isn’t naturally overflowing with the love. The heart takes time to blossom because as humans, we really don’t know what true love is, we only know the love the world has taught us and that love is selfish/ false. We learn true love when we build a loving relationship with God and that requires a lot of patience, faith, time and God’s help.
The Trinity is made up of God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This concept is what many Catholics believe in, but other worldwide religions believe in other beliefs. Out of all the three Divine Persons, “Jesus is the most qualified to bring the renewal of creation because it was through him that creation came into being” (Pohle February 7th). We as humans will have to face the consequences for actions that we have done in the past, present and future. Jesus has come into the world as a human to show his dignity and save us from sin; he was the world and of all creation. As we come to read more about Jesus we get to know Jesus more, we learn about what he did, how he did it and why he had to do these saving actions.
THE DOCTRINE OF INCARNATION The doctrine of the incarnation is at the heart of Biblical Christianity as well as the teaching of Christ pre-existence is foundational to the Christian faith. The fact that Christ “became flesh and dwelt among us” is vital to the truths of His substitutionary death and glorious resurrection. Since apart from these events there is no salvation, one can quickly see how the “coming in flesh” of Jesus is so important to the Christian faith. Without the pre-existence Christ’s incarnation, resurrection, and atoning work are in question.