Is God A Trinity PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

22 Is God a Trinity?believe in a mysterious Trinity and a vociferous minoritywho believe that Christ was a created being. Neither hasthe truth.But why all the confusion?Who Jesus was is clearly indicated in the pages of theBible. It has been there for centuries. While Christianswere busily excommunicating and killing each other overthe question of who Jesus was, the answer has been in thepages of the Bible, and that explanation is not in harmonywith what is taught by most churches today. Christ is notthe second person in a Trinity, and He was not created byGod - He is the Creator God!In the Beginning ..To find out who Jesus was, let's go back to the beginning.Beginnings are mentioned in the Bible in at least twoseparate places - in the first chapter of Genesis and in thefirst chapter of John's Gospel.The Apostle John began his Gospel by describing whoand what Jesus was before He came to this earth as thesaviour of mankind."In the beginning was the Word, and the Word waswith God, and the Word was God. The same was in thebeginning with God. All things were made by him; andwithout him was not anything made that was made ..And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (andwe beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of theFather,) full of grace and truth" (verses 1-3, 14).If we read no further in the New Testament than this,we would be able to know beyond a shadow of a doubtthat Jesus Christ was God and that He is the One whocreated man in Genesis 2:7. Because John clearly statesthat the Word - the One who became Christ - createdall things. Had Christians clearly understood these versesthere would have never been an Arian controversy or adoctrine of the Trinity.But the Apostle John is not the only New Testamentwriter who wrote about the pre-existence of Christ. Noticewhat Paul wrote to the Corinthians. "Moreover, brethren,I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our