The Most Holy Trinity

The Most Holy Trinity

The distinctions of God the Father Son and Holy Spirit are

seen within Scripture. It is reasonable and right to see the

distinctions between God The Father, God The Son and God

The Holy Spirit because it is how Love is shown to us.

I most say that God does NOT have separation between

Himself, but that their is distinction between God The Father,

God the Son, and God The Holy Spirit. Distinction is what

makes God One in nature and gives us The Oneness of the

God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Distinction is not mean

separation.

God the Father is not the Son and the Son is not the Father

and neither are the Holy Spirit. Yet the Father is God, the Son

is God and the Holy Spirit is God. There are not three Gods

but one God.

The idea of God not being Three Persons in One nature

(Oneness Pentecostals and others) hurts this point of whom

God is. And the other extreme of those that believe Jesus is

not God or of the Trinity (J/W, Mormons and some

Jewish/Christian and others) also hurt the point of whom God

Truly is.

We must accept that God can not be fully understood with

Human minds alone. He is a Mystery to us. This is not to say

we can not understand who God is. Some of the things We as

Catholics believe in are believed by Faith and not by sight.

We accept them to be True because it has already been reviled

to us through the Church and Her Teaching and guided by the

Holy Spirit through the thousands of years of its existence.

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the

Word (Jesus The Christ), and the Holy Ghost: and these three

are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the

Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in

one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is

greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified

of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the

witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a

liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his

Son. (1 John 5:7-10 KJV)

These are beautiful verses that show that they are One and yet

that their is distinction in the Godhead.

We must remember that our human mind can not fully

understand the concept of God. Thus He is a mystery to us. A

mystery that allows us to go deeper into His Love for us, if we

are willing to and wanting to know Him better.

Here we will look at the Persons of God. Like I've said, God

is One in Nature with Three Persons, He is God the Father,

God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. We must be quite

accurate: the three persons are distinct, but not separate; and

they do not share the divine nature, but each possesses it

Totally.

Let me give you what is meant by nature and person. Nature

says what we are, person says who we are. Nature is the

source of our operations, person does them.

Our nature is Human, Gods is the Divine Nature. Their is only

One Divine Nature that everything comes from and that is

God's.

Let's look at Scripture and the three distinct persons of the

Trinity.

The Father, The Person of God the Father.

Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is

not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee,

and established thee? (Deuteronomy 32:6 KJV)

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in

heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the

good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. (Matthew

5:45 KJV)

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when

thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret;

and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:

for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth

what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this

manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name. (Matthew 6:6-9 KJV)

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your

children, how much more shall your Father which is in

heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:11

KJV)

But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the

angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

(Mark 13:32 KJV)

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord

Jesus Christ, Of whomthe whole family in heaven and earth

is named, (Ephesians 3:14, 15 KJV)

One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all,

and in you all. (Ephesians 4:6 KJV)

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his

God, and he shall bemy son. (Revelation 21:7 KJV)

The Son, the Person of Jesus The Christ.

And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be

fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,

Out of Egypt have I called my son. (Matthew 2:15 KJV)

And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son,

in whom I am well pleased. (Matthew 3:17 KJV)

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the

Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 6.And

saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down:

for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning

thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any

time thou dash thy foot against a stone. (Matthew 4:3, 6 KJV)

And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with

thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment

us before the time? (Matthew 8:29 KJV)

All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man

knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the

Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will

reveal him. (Matthew 11:27 KJV)

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

11.And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my

beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (Mark 1:1, 11 KJV)

And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him,

and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God. (Mark 3:11 KJV)

And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost

shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall

overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be

born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (Luke 1:35 KJV)

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten

Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but

have everlasting life. (John 3:16 KJV)

And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to

the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

(Romans 1:4 KJV)

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among

you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not

yea and nay, but in him was yea. (2 Corinthians 1:19 KJV)

Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed

into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our

profession. (Hebrews 4:14 KJV)

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God

dwelleth in him, and he in God. (1 John 4:15 KJV)

And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These

things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a

flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; (Revelation 2:18

KJV)

The Holy Spirit, the Person of the Holy Spirit.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17.Even the

Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it

seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he

dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. (John 14:16, 17 KJV)

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I

go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter (Holy Spirit )

will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto

you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin,

and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they

believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my

Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the

prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say

unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the

Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for

he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,

that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He

shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew

it unto you. (John 16:7-14 KJV)

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to

lie to the Holy Ghost , and to keep back part of the price of the

land? 32.And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is

also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey

him. (Acts 5:3, 32 KJV)

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of

the Spirit , because he maketh intercession for the saints

according to the will of God. (Romans 8:27 KJV)

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of

the Spirit , because he maketh intercession for the saints

according to the will of God. (Romans 8:27 KJV)

So in all these verses we see Scripture is clear of God's

distictions between God the Father, God the Son, and God the

Holy Spirit. To say their is No distiction between Him is to

say God is not Love.