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EHBC’s Statement of Faith Article 2: God

There is one and only one living and true God. … The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

Today's Notes:

1) The REALITY of the Trinity

2) The IMPORTANCE of the Trinity

3) The BEAUTY of the Trinity

The Baptist Faith & Message 2000, Article 2: God

Same opening and ending sentence as EHBC's Article 2.

[God] is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the Universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience.

We worship one God in trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being. For the Father is one person, the Son is another, and the Spirit is still another. But the deity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one, equal in glory, coeternal in majesty. What the Father is, the Son is, and so is the Holy Spirit. Uncreated is the Father; uncreated is the Son; uncreated is the Spirit. The Father is infinite; the Son is infinite; the Holy Spirit is infinite. Eternal is the Father; eternal is the Son; eternal is the Spirit: And yet there are not three eternal beings, but one who is eternal; as there are not three uncreated and unlimited beings, but one who is uncreated and unlimited. Almighty is the Father; almighty is the Son; almighty is the Spirit: And yet there are not three almighty beings, but one who is almighty. Thus the Father is God; the Son is God; the Holy Spirit is God: And yet there are not three gods, but one God. Thus the Father is Lord; the Son is Lord; the Holy Spirit is Lord: And yet there are not three lords, but one Lord. Just as Christian truth compels us to confess each distinct person as both God and Lord, so catholic religion forbids us to say that there are three gods or lords.

— The Athanasian Creed, 5th C.

“The doctrine of the Trinity is the necessary theological framework for understanding the biblical account of Jesus as the true story of God—and if what the Bible says about Jesus is anything other than that, we have no gospel.”

— Timothy George, “The Nature of God: Being, Attributes, and Acts,” A Theology for the Church

“Single-person gods, having spent eternity alone, are inevitably self-centered beings, and so it becomes hard to see why they would ever cause anything else to exist.”

— Michael Reeves, Delighting In the Trinity

For discussion this week:

-- Why do you think the Trinity is a hard concept to understand?
-- Why do you think the Trinity is an important concept to contemplate?
-- What is one aspect of the Trinity that is important for how you see and understand God?