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Question:
What is the Trinity?
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity,(Trinitarian Godhead) means that there is one God who eternally exists as three distinct Persons — the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Stated differently, God is one in essence and three in person. These definitions express three crucial truths: (1) The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct Persons, (2) each Person is fully God, and (3) there is only one God.
The Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit form the Trinity (the Trinitarian Godhead) and are equally omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient.
We can see the differentiation of the three persons of the Trinity in one clear passage: “16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” (Mathew 3: 16-17 [NIV*]). As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment, heaven was opened, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from Heaven said, “This is my son, whom I love; with him. I am well pleased.”
During the baptism of Jesus by John, all three persons of the Trinity (the Trinitarian Godhead) are in action, distinct from one another. They are each God and divine with qualities, essence, and will.
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The Trinity is not a belief in three gods. There is only one God, and we must never stray from this.
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This one God exists as three Persons.
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The three Persons are not part of God but are fully and equally God. Within God’s one undivided being, there is an unfolding into three interpersonal relationships such that there are three Persons. The distinctions within the Godhead are not distinctions of His essence and neither are they something added on to His essence, but they are the unfolding of God’s one, undivided being into three interpersonal relationships such that there are three real Persons.
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God is not one person who took three consecutive roles. That is the heresy of modalism. The Father did not become the Son and then the Holy Spirit. Instead, there have always been and always will be three distinct persons in the Godhead.
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The Trinity is not a contradiction because God is not three in the same way that He is one. God is one, in essence, three in Person.
Omnipotence
Omnipotence is an attribute of GOD alone. It is the quality of having all power. “3 Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him” (Psalm 115:3 [NIV*]) He can do all things that do not conflict with His holy nature. God has the power to do anything He wants to do. However, God cannot do that which is contrary to His nature. For example, God does not lie, “2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,” (Titus 1:2 [NIV*]).
Omnipresence
Omnipresence is an attribute of GOD alone. It is the quality of being present in all places simultaneously. He is not bound by time and space. If there are alternate dimensions, GOD is there. If there are alternate realities, GOD is there.
Omniscience
Omniscience is an attribute of GOD alone. It is the quality of having all knowledge, (Isaiah 40: 13-14 [NIV])”13 Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, ,or instruct the Lord as his counselor? 14 Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge ,or showed him the path of understanding?).
God knows all things are possible as well as actual because He has ordained who or whatsoever will come to pass according to the counsel of His will. He does not need to experience something to know about it completely. (Ephesians 1:3-11[NIV]). 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, 9 he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,)
GOD Is The Holy Trinity (Trinitarian Godhead
