Christian Understanding of Trinity3

TRINITY : M. M. NINAN
8. God the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit
"So I sent up a prayer from the earth and begged for rescue from
death. I cried, 'Lord, thou art my Father; do not desert me in
time of trouble, when I am helpless in the face of arrogance.'"
(Ecclesiasticus 51:10, NEB);
"At that point he [Joseph] cried out, calling upon the mighty God
to save him from their power. He said, 'O Father, my God,
leave me not forsaken, in the power of the nations.'" (Dead Sea
Scrolls, Wise, Abegg, and Cook, p. 334, 74. 4Q371-373, 2Q22).
"But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and
You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand." (Isaiah
64:8).
This idea was confirmed and emphasized by Jesus.
"Jesus said to her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet
ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them,
"I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My
God and your God."'" (John 20:17).
" , though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live
and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets
have said, 'For we are also His offspring.' Therefore, since we
are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine
Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art
and man’s devising." (Acts 17:26-29)
"For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on
earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there
is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him;
and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and
through whom we live." (1 Corinthians 8:5-6).
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes
down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation
or shadow of turning." (James 1:17).
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