The Trinity Part 1

This summer, my Sunday school class is studying the Holy Spirit. I believe the Holy Spirit is one of the most misunderstood and abused persons of the Trinity.Over the next few weeks I am going to blog my notes from Sunday school.As I have been studying the Holy Spirit this summer, I have learned so much about Him and His involvement in my life. Topics we covered (and are currently covering) are; the Trinity, walking in the Spirit, being filled with the Spirit, baptized in the Spirit, Spiritual gifts, grieving the Spirit, and assurance of salvation.Below are my notes on the Trinity.

NOTE: For a good discussion on the Trinity, featuring John Piper, Don Carson, and Tim Keller click here

How would you define the word Trinity?



How is the Holy Spirit often viewed in Christianity today?



The word Trinity is not found in our Bible. My definition for Trinity is: The Trinity is one God who eternally exists as three distinct persons—Father, Son, and Spirit—who are each fully and equally God in eternal relation with each other or God is three persons, each person is fully God, there is one God.

If I say that each member of the Trinity is fully God, and that each person fully shares in all the attributes of God, then is there any difference at all among the persons of the Trinity. We cannot say for example that the father is more powerful or wiser than the sun, or the father and son or wiser than the Holy Spirit, one of father existed before the son and Holy Spirit existed, for to say anything like that would be to deny the full deity of all three members of the Trinity.  

Versus to study include Genesis 1:2, 26, Deuteronomy 6:4Isaiah 6:8, Luke 1:35, 2 Corinthians 13:14, 1 Peter 1:2, 1 Timothy 2:5

There is are no differences in deity, attributes, or essential nature between the father, son, and Holy Spirit. Each person is fully God. The only distinctions between the members of the Trinity or the ways they relate to creation. For example, they each carry out different role in relation to Salvation. 

In salvation, these are the roles of each person of the Trinity.The Father chose us before the foundation of the world. (Ephesians 1:4-5) The Son redeems those who believe in Him. (John 3:16, Romans 5:10) The Spirit Applied the Salvation that the Son purchased to those whom the Father chose (John 3:5-8, Ephesians 1:13)