Research Paper On The Trinity

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The Trinity is one of the most essential pillars in the Christian faith. It is the mystery of the unity and oneness of God in one of three persons. This unity is a crucial part of the foundation of the faith and cornerstone to those who believe. “The mystery of the Holy Trinity, who believe in the church was not if the result of the thought of a human is not the outcome of a religious or external philosophical effects of late, but it was based on the gospel of the apostles themselves they lived and passed themselves as an experience deified and life.”1 The idea of the Trinity is not something that has been made up by people of the faith, this is a concept that has been explained and shown throughout the disciples and the Holy Bible. St. John tells us, “Which we have seen and heard we declare to you also may have …show more content…

This means that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit collectively make one Person who is God. Our church father, St. Augustine explains, “Let us believe that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one God the Creator and Ruler of the whole creature, and the Father is not the Son, nor the Holy Spirit either the Father or the Son, but a trinity of persons mutually interrelated and a unity of an equal essence, and let us seek to understand this, praying for help form Himself, whom we wish to understand; and as much as He grants”.2 This shows that the Holy Trinity is of equal persons with not one with more priority or power over the other person. He also says,“The persons of the Trinity are a single God Precisely because they share a common nature or substance, or in other words, they have every attribute of characteristic in common. But this is not the only kind of unity the persons of the Trinity share; they also share in a unity of love, of fellowship, and that kind of unity in possible precisely because they are distinct as persons. Identical in substance and

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