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TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN 10. What Difference Does the Doctrine of the Trinity Make? 1. Sovereignty: Because the three persons have each other, we can be assured that God created us only to share the love they have and not as a means to His own end: Acts 17:25; John 17:21-26. 2. Mystery: The triune God is totally unlike anything in our world, and therefore greater than anything we can comprehend: Rom. 11:33-36; Isa. 40:18. 3. Salvation: God alone planned our salvation, came to save us, and dwells in us to complete our salvation: 1 Pet. 1:2; Eph. 1:3-18; etc. 4. Prayer: We pray to the Father through the Son, and also pray to the Son directly, in the Spirit: John 14:13-14; Eph. 2:18; etc. 5. Worship: We worship Father and Son in the Spirit: John 4:23-24; Phil. 3:3; Heb. 1:8; etc. 6. Love: The love among the three persons is the basis and model for our love for one another: John 17:26. 7. Unity: The unity of the three persons is the basis and model for the unity of the church: John 17:21-23. 8. Humility: As the persons of the Trinity seek the glory of each other, so we should seek the interests of others above our own: Phil. 2:5-11; John 16:13-14. 9. Sonship: We are "sons of God" as we are united with the Son of God by the work of the Holy Spirit and the adoption of the Father: John 1:12-23; Rom. 8:14-17. 10. Truth: All those who wish to worship and love God must seek to know Him as He is in truth, for God, as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is truth: John 4:24; 14:6, 14:17; 15:26; 16:13. Since God is totally the other beyond comparison any attempt to explain the Trinity in terms of human logic will only fall short. The first person to call Jesus God was none other than the Apostle Thomas, the apostle to India who has handed over this faith within 20 years of the Pentecost. I am one from a family which claims that we have been given the task of the teachers of the word by Thomas himself. Based on the references above our only model for God is given by the following formula which form the foundations of doctrine of Trinity. 23
TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN The Biblical Trinity One God In Three persons Each co-equal and co-eternal The Doctrine of Trinity asserts the following: • There is one and only one God. YHWH Elohim Echad • God eternally exists in three distinct persons. • The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. • The Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Father, the Father is not the Spirit. At least the Pharisees understood that Jesus indeed claimed to be equal to God. John 10: 29- 33 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” 31At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him. At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him. But Jesus answered, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?” “We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.” Right from the early history people had been grapling to understand the significance of this concept since Jews were trained in the early extreme monism just as todays Islam was. Thus all sorts of variationss grew up through history and is still arise which deviates from this orthodox faith. We are going to see those. Each variation was proposed by biblical scholars and have their own reasoning. 24
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