Christian Understanding of Trinity3
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TRINITY : M. M. NINAN<br />
7. New Testament Trinity<br />
Eph 5.18-20: Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to<br />
debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one<br />
another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make<br />
music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the<br />
Father for everything, in the name <strong>of</strong> our Lord Jesus Christ.<br />
I Thess 1.1 (also 2 Thess 1.1): To the church <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:<br />
I Thess 1.3-5: We continually remember before our God and<br />
Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by<br />
love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus<br />
Christ. For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen<br />
you, because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but<br />
also with power, with the Holy Spirit<br />
I Thess 3.11: Now may our God and Father himself and our<br />
Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you.<br />
2 Thess 2.16-17: May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God<br />
our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal<br />
encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and<br />
strengthen you in every good deed and word.<br />
Ephesians 2.18: For through him we both have access to the<br />
Father by one Spirit.<br />
I John 1.3: And our fellowship is with the Father and with his<br />
Son, Jesus Christ.<br />
I John 2.22-23: Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that<br />
Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist -- he denies the<br />
Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the<br />
Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.<br />
I John 4.13-14: We know that we live in him and he in us,<br />
because he has given us <strong>of</strong> his Spirit. And we have seen and<br />
testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior <strong>of</strong> the<br />
world.<br />
John starts with the greeting in Trinitarian fashion:<br />
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