The best words to describe God, are words that describe how he is beyond description. he is explainable, incomprehensible but yet he is personal. He desires a relationship with the human beings he created. He knew that when he gave humans free will that there would be setbacks. But he wanted them to love him out of a choice and not because that 's what they were programs in a sense to do. Because when loves is forced it is not in its sincerest form. God knew that along with because one loves is forced it is not in it sincerest form. God knew that along with the choice to love him would be the choice to turn away from him. But even when we turn away from him and we sin, his love is still remaining period of the father is always drawing us to …show more content…
in the book of John in the very beginning of chapter 1 John talks about how in the beginning was the word in the word was God. And stated in Genesis God was in the beginning and he created everything. He said Let there be light and there was light he said that there be night and day and there was. He created with his words. John goes on in verse 14 of chapter one to say that the word became flesh and lived among us. John 1:1-3, 14- “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made…. And the Word was made 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.”
So Jesus was completely human and yet was the gotten from God. and Jesus who is the word was in the beginning creating the earth with the father. CS Lewis describes in Mere Christianity the difference between creation and being begotten in reference to Jesus being different than all the other God 's creations. He says that something that is begotten is an essence a replication or giving birth 2 something of the same species or type as the one who begot it. I know that sounds kind of hard to understand. To put it simply man begets man or a child to be more specific. What God begets is God. And when I read it in that context it made a lot
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But it is very important to understand that the holy spirit is a person, he has mind will and emotions. he 's not just a force. Divine attributes that are shared by the father and the son are equally shared by the Holy Spirit. When a person receives Christ the Holy Spirit resides in that person.
The Holy Spirit helps to produce spiritual fruit in the life of the believer. Fruit that we cannot produce on our own but only with his help. Galations5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
"Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God."
- John Wesley
I don 't understand the trinity. To the best of my abilities I have explain all of the components of the trinity, the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. A majority of what I believe about the trinity was learned through reading the book Mere Christianity by CS Lewis. In Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis attempts to describe how the Trinity work in a sense. He talks about the dimensions of space and that a human level is like the first dimension where we have one person being one person and two persons is being to separate
For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him. (Colossians 1:16, AMP)
Jesus Christ became human and walked with men and women. The Creator of heaven and earth became a creature and entered the creation that he made into existence. God made himself known so humanity could have the most basic understanding of who he was and Christ there would be no Christianity. Jesus taught mankind a high view of Scripture and inspired his followers and others to uphold it as God’s Word. (A Starting Point for Wisdom by Jason Hiles and Anna Faith
...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.
Analysis of the Gospel of John 1:1-6 and its comparison with Genesis 1 and 2: 1-3 and Proverbs 8 gives us insight into how a Christian text references Hebrew texts implicitly and explicitly. In chapter one, verse 1-6, of the Gospel of John, we not only witness the explicit references from Genesis and Proverbs, but also see how different ideas present in the two Hebrew texts have been reframed by the Gospel of John. We see a highlight of this reframing in the verse one of the Gospel of John, which states, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In this verse, for instance, the notion of “The Word” is, one could argue, similar in its meaning and connotation to the idea of “Wisdom” present in Proverbs. This idea of wisdom could be found in the verses 22 through 30 in the Proverbs and it states, “The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago. Ages ago I was set up, at first, before the beginning of the earth…. then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always” (Proverbs 8:22-30). From the verses of the proverbs we can conclude that Wisdom was the first of God’s creations and it was this wisdom that remained with Him throughout all of His creations. Interestingly, this idea is also reinforced in the Gospel of John. The only difference here is that the term in used in the Gospel is the “Word,” as opposed to the term “Wisdom” used in the Proverbs, both, however, aiming at representing virtually similar concepts. Thus, since there was only Word/Wisdom in the beginning it makes sense to say that the “Word was God” and God is Wisdom.
My understanding is that in the Triune relationship, God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In other words, God is three persons
The Gospel of John depicts Jesus not only as the son of God, but as the Word. The Word is God, thus Jesus is God in flesh. Jesus, the Word incarnate, was sent with a purpose, to shed light into the world. John 1:14 describes this light as the “grace and truth,” within Jesus. Yet, John 1:14, also depicted Jesus as a God, who “lived among us,” and through incarnate life showed the world “glory,” possible only through “a father’s only son.” John 1:14 functions by, one demonstrating Jesus as God (incarnate) and by two discussing the gifts only capable by Jesus. The christology reiterated within the quote, the belief of an incarnate God, echoes throughout the rest of the
"I put my mind on Christ and try to listen and obey the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:5), the Holy Spirit will give me life and peace (Romans 8:6). If a man is a Christian, he has the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9). His spirit has been made alive (Romans 8:10) The Holy Spirit is giving life back to his body, bringing it back from the deadness of sin (Romans 8:11) and bring abundant new life in Christ."(Graham)
It mentions that all human beings exist in a relation to a triune God which is also known as the Trinity. This Trinity is known as one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. As explained by the first claim, in the Catholic Tradition, being fully human and living a life of meaning and purpose means joining in this relationship of the triune God. This claim mentions that we have to be fully human, meaning knowing what good and bad, helping others and doing all the good things that God wants us to do, living a life of meaning and purpose that’s the foundation or means joining in the relationship of Love. By Love, they imply to God. In Genesis we are shown that God is love and he loved and respected the human being. We are also shown that an indication of plurality in Godhead, meaning that God is not just one person but he is made of more than one person. In Genesis 1:26 He says, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” He doesn’t say I’m going to make man in my image, but uses the plural, ‘our’. This shows that God's actions in the creation are not just his works but he is helped by someone with the same intentions as him, and human beings exist because God loves us. Human beings are related to God as they represent him and were made in his
“Christ is the Son of God, ‘begotten, not created,’” (157). In the English language, words such as begotten are not commonly used. Lewis states that to become the Father is to beget, while creating something is just making something. To become the Father, you become the Father of something that is similar to you, your kind. When Christians say that Christ is the Son of God, they mean that God created something like him, of the same kind. Even though God is out father, and we are sons and daughters of God, Christ was of the same kind as him.
Biblical witness centers on the Spirits activity of “binding believers to Christ, incorporation them into the church as the body of Christ and equipping the church for mission.” Despite the best effort of the Church to be the hands and feet of Christ it is reassuring to know that the Spirit is still present and working in the hearts of people outside of the church’s work. Without the work of the Spirit in the hearts of believers and throughout the word, humanity would not know the love of God. The Holy Spirit gives liberates and brings new life it unites, encourages and brings hope to a world pledged by darkness.
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.
Logos is an ancient Greek term that philosophically explains everything in the universe (Merriam-Webster, 2018). John uses this term to explain how Jesus originated in heaven and then arrived to earth (Harris, 2014). At the very beginning of John’s Gospels, he applies the concept of Logos, in that Jesus and God together, while in heaven created the universe (Harris, 2014). This story is vastly different from the Synoptic Gospels, and John utilizes the Logos concept even when Jesus is in human form on earth. This is because Jesus is a divine being, and his words are considered divine (Harris, 2014). This is how John connects Jesus to Genesis 1 and the cosmic Reason. John connects Jesus to Genesis 1 immediately in his writings referring
What was the Holy Spirit referring to when he influenced the author to write " in the beginning" in John 1:1-2 ? Theologians and Biblical Scholars associate “in the beginning” to the creation account in Gen 1:1-3. However, John 1-3 concentrate its subject matter to the incarnate Christ and his mission to the world, which Jesus would come to live and sacrifice his life for those who would believe. Furthermore, the book of John demonstrates the power, knowledge, and wisdom that accompanies your calling. Raymond Brown stated: ‘If the Gospel begins with “In the beginning,” it is because the coming of Jesus will be presented as a new and definitive creation.” When we look at Gen 1:1-3 and John 1:1-2 it is easy to define similar themes in both. Gen 1:1-3 speaks to a time concerning the beginning of humanity and the world in which humanity lives. A testament to the strengths and failures of His greatest creation and the glory, power, and mercy of a true living God. A moment in eternity that will distinguish God as a creator, Lord, and Savior to his people. An era defining the frailty of humanity and it 's need for something greater than the created. John 1-3 wrote about the father, his Logos and the Logos as the acting force behind creation as well as a savior for the world. He wrote about of the origin of the Logos and his impact on the those who would listen and hear. John was trained from his youth to fulfill his calling to the father as a witness to the coming King. furthermore, John as child was taught about how God created the world and it inhabitants. It is easy to understand John’s knowledge of creation and why he would utilize this knowledge to explain Christ origins. The book of John brings to light the origin of the life of man (John 1:5). The Holy Spirit led the writer to see that both Genesis and John referred to the creative power of the father, his plan for Man, and
The Holy Spirit gives us power to make things possible. Jesus said in Acts 1:8, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” The power enabled the apostles to heal the sick (3:1-10, 5:15-16, 9:32-35) and raise people from the dead (9:36-43). The power also enabled them to speak the truth boldly (4:1-14, 7:1-53,
• The Holy Spirit is the spirit of love that dwells in each and every last one of us, it is not a part of the body so if the body dies, the spirit will continue to live. Because love never dies.