used to indicate the doctrine used in the Christian faith that is interpreted as symbolizing that God is unified in his existence in three definite persons which is God the father, God the son and God the holy spirit (Hodgson, Juugel, Kelly, Presitge, Wainwright, 2016). The essence of understanding the trinity is comprehending that God is three persons, each person is divine, and there is only one God (Johnson, 2014, 174-175). Theologians may debate that the term persons may not be the appropriate
sort of understanding about who God was/is. I was homeschooled by my mother who thought that Christian education was important in her children’s lives. Every morning, before we started school, she would sit us down at the dinner table and we would sing hymns and she would read us a bible story. This shaped my understanding and knowledge of the bible. She instilled in me a love for the bible and an interest in what God is trying to tell me through the bible. My father is also a major role model in my
The Triune God What does it mean to say the one God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit? How is God best understood? How can the Church communicate this today? D14734 Essay Question What does it mean to say the one God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit? How is God’s being best understood? How can the Church communicate this today? Introduction In this essay, I am investigating the Trinity, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and how God understood. I will also consider
The ancient Greeks worshipped many gods, each with a distinct personality and domain. Greek myths explained the origins of the gods and their individual relations with mankind. There were twelve deities in the Greek pantheon who were known as the twelve Olympians. Foremost was Zeus, the sky god and father of the gods, to whom the ox and the oak tree were sacred. Zeus is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky, weather, thunder, law, order and fate. He is the youngest
sparked the Renaissance style of writing. In A Hymn to God the Father written by English poet John Donne, many issues are addressed about the Christian faith while God’s authority is challenged. When analyzing A Hymn to God the Father, the reader is able to understand the importance of Christianity during the 1600s and how it shaped the English culture. John Donne had an interesting view of life and many questions that he constantly begged God to answer. In the early stages of his life he could not
For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21 Now it was the governor’s custom each year during the Passover celebration to release one prisoner—anyone the people requested. One of the prisoners at that time was Barabbas, a revolutionary
Jesus and God to look to, but who was the leader of it all? Who were they to worship? Where does the Spirit fit into all of this? After many questions, they looked to Scripture. Christians have had the belief of Monotheism and that there is One God. Yet, it wasn’t until the Church looked to Scripture that they pieced together what is now known as the Holy Trinity. The Church found their foundational text in Deuteronomy 6:4-9, known as the Shema. These verses are about Israel worshipping God, repeatedly
is, but we know that there is God the Son, who is true God, God the Father, who is true God, and the Holy Ghost who is true God, which makes the Blessed Trinity. Even though there are three Persons in God it doesn’t mean that there are three Gods but instead there are three persons in one God which is why we don’t understand the Blessed Trinity. Before the fall of mankind, people already had infused knowledge of the Blessed Trinity from God but after the fall, God removed that infused knowledge
” Through her many revelations she encountered God’s vast love, the existence of evil, God’s heart for creation, the father and mother-heart of God, and the need to obey her Father in Heaven. Amongst these revelations the most powerful was the revelation of God’s love and character. Revelations of Divine Love is a wonderful source of revelation to connect a reader to the Father. The first revelation (Chapters IV to IX) is the revelation of “His precious crowning with thorns” and Jesus’s love
the speaker’s soul; it is a meditation on the Trinity and man’s relationship to God. The poem’s form and the multi-layered conflation throughout expound upon the nature of the Trinity. The theme of humility in reciprocal religious love or receiving and understanding God’s glory (as Donne understood it) runs throughout the poem. This allows the speaker’s soul to understand his own need for humility in order to love god fully. Donne uses the Sonnet form cunningly in this poem; the formal divisions of
yet a different context for each one. “The Flea,” “Holy Sonnet VII,” and “A Hymn to God the Father” each have distinct themes, but find common ground by the use of common literary devices. “The Flea” is a carnal poem where the speaker tries to convince his lover to be inclined to him. “Holy Sonnet VII” and “A Hymn to God the Father” are religious poems that address apocalyptic visions and serve as a remembrance to God respectfully, while attending to mention the act of pardoning the speaker’s formerly
to properly understand what God is like, how He relates to us, and how we relate to Him. It may also raise many difficult questions including what does it mean that God is a Trinity? While it is difficult for us to fully understand everything about the trinity, it is quite possible to answer questions like this one and come to a solid grasp of what it means for God to be three in one. The doctrine of the Trinity, as seen in the Holy Bible, means that there is one God who eternally subsists as three
Trinity defines God as one in essence yet three in person. The concept of the Trinity is so complex and difficult to comprehend, that many believe it is contradictory. Despite there not being a simple one verse explanation, when analyzing all of Scripture there is clear evidence concerning the nature of God. God is three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, yet they are all fully God making Christianity a monotheistic religion with which many disagree. The Father, the Son, and
The mention of the Holy Spirit so often in Romans 8 (more than twenty times) has the purpose of pointing out the actions of the Father, which serves to reveal His identity as the one who raised Jesus, specifically in Romans 8:11, from the dead. This same verb, is also used in Romans 4:17 in relationship to the faith of Abraham. The Father who raised Jesus from the dead and gives life the Abraham 's faith is the same Who will raise the believers of Jesus. In a similar fashion to the identity descriptions
triunity, which consists of God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, and God the Son. This report deals mostly with God the Son, which is Jesus. Jesus has all these qualities and we are supposed to be following in His footsteps. Most Christians try as hard to have these great characteristics, but there is no possible way that we could achieve such a goal. It is impossible for humans to reach that goal. It says in the Bible "For everyone falls short of the glory of God.". That right there is enough
Biblical light. Jesus prayed in John 17:21, “That they all may be one, as thou, Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” By definition, unity is the state of being one. In order to have a unified church every member must be one one with the Father and the Son. Subsequently, to achieve such an oneness, each member must be perfectly holy, because God is holy. Unfortunately, this is where a clear contrast is made between the saints
every patience to mastering: trust God entirely. In order to accomplish that set ambition, I will have to conquer all threats of doubt, anxiety, fear, impatience, apathy, hatefulness and replace them with the everlasting promises of love, joy, hope, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forgiveness, self-control, and grace, all which I bountifully receive just by placing all faith and trust in the hands of my Heavenly Father. All it takes is humbly coming to the Father admitting that I am weak, and on
“believe that Christians have a great amount of freedom because God has not predetermined a specific path for their lives” (p. 11) and states that “scriptures are a key component of formation, but decisions are based on our relationship with God and how God is at work in our lives” (p. 11). Relationship-formation approach followers believe that decisions are impacted by the level of maturity and depth of relationship in Christ and that God is satisfied when an individual has matured to the point of
is a way of God exercising his grace. It is something that we as humans cannot go through on our own will (Ephesians 2:8). Sanctification is the process that we as finite humans go through in order to turn away from our old life that was slaved to sin (Romans 6:6). The Father, Son and Holy Spirit all play a role in this process. The process begins with God working through the Holy Spirit who works in us to sanctify us in Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 1:2, 30; 6:11). The reason that God has us go through
our salvation. The doctrine of the Trinity means that there is one God who eternally exists as three distinct Persons — the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Persons of the Trinity have separate, though never conflicting wills as they work together to bring glory to God. (Luke 22:42). Scripture speaks of the Father as God (Philippians 1:2), Jesus Christ as God (Titus 2:13), and the Holy Spirit as God (Acts 5:3–4). Yet God is the Father, Jesus Christ is the Son and the Holy Spirit is Spirit, each has