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Fountain Head of the Trinity.
By:Ptr. Jesse Amiel Ramoso
Text: Matt
3:1-4:5, John 3:16, 6:35-59,Exo 33:17-23
Objectives: To teach students functions of Trinity in Laymans term; and
cause them to understand and enabling them
to teach others.
Introduction: One
night while I was watching one of the religious TV
show, It was sad to know that more than million of people had a hard
time
to understand trinity. Isaid this because I have seen people believed
that The 'son of god" is here and he is
Davao.
I've made a question in my mind, is the Pastors failed to teach
theology in our
country and to the church? Or the false teacher like him
are very loud when teaching their wrong theology. Or maybe
when the
theologian teaches theology, they failed to connect and explain to the
world according to their language.
Or maybe we have poor promotion of our
correct theology.
Sometimes I once asked myself the meaning of God is here,
did He left the throne and came down to the earth? Or sometimes
if God
is in heaven He is not in the earth. Or He is in heaven and He is
everywhere, then how many Gods, where is
they, Who is they are This is the
common question that the people searches the answer. They dont care the
authenticity
of the doctrine they just simply searching somebody to
explain this theological problem.
The word trinity
is not a mystery, but a revealed idea; it can be
understood, studied, and quantifiable. Obviously there are only three
Persons in trinity. The word trinity is not found in the bible but the
essence of trinity is always mentioned in the
Bible. By using theological
view points and the philosophical arguments we can understand that the
trinity is
not a mystery. But the divinity of the trinity is a mystery
and we cannot measure and understand the Divinity of God.
1.
In theological methodology: Matt 3,4: There are three Persons in
God, The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Each person is fully
God, and there is one God. More explanations in number 4 and 5.
2. In philosophical methodology:
God the Father is in Heaven and He
never dies as Jesus, and He never also grieve as the Holy Spirit grieved
Because
He is different from them yet they are in one or one God in
three persons. God the Father is transcendent, He is in heaven
and no one
can see Him, except Jesus His Son. Holy Spirit is the matter of all
matters that occupy space. The
Son is the mater and the reflection of the
Father. These three Persons have also different attributes, emotions
and
their metaphysics. They have different substance, and they have
different function in the Laws (Human, laws and Spiritual
Law and Natural
Law gravity, relativity, dynamics etc.. Jesus broke the Law of Nature
when he walks on water and heals
the sick and performs wonders. He also
performs Human law when he obeys the taxation, submits parental guidance
and
teaches moral law in the sermon of the mount. He also demonstrates
Spiritual Law following the cause and effects in doing
the will !
of His Father. For example He died on the cross and was resurrected.
More explanations for the Holy Spirit
and Father in the following
numbers
3. The Divine Energy: Holy Spirit
The immanence of God the Father is expressed through the
Son, the Holy Spirit is the ministering spirits or the Angels.
A. The bible. We should bear in mind that angels, or the Holy
Spirits or the angels are the instruments of Gods Divine
energy. One
example of the symbol of the holy spirit is in Genesis 1:1-2 The Spirit is
wind, there are more than twenty
symbols of the Holy Spirit in the
bible. Like dove, oil, water, fire, and more. These are the source of
divine energy
of God.
B. In New Testament. The birth of Jesus in the
manger and the appearance of the angels and the stars were Gods Divine
energy. Jesus is with us, so we can say that God is with us, God is with us
in His presence but He is not with us
in His essence. God is
transcendent, he cant be with us because He is Holy, He is with us immanent
through His Divine
energy Son and Holy Spirit.
4.Divine Essence of God: God The Father
God is not with us in His Essence or in His
substance. His essence is always in heaven, and no one can see Him except
the
Son. But who sees the Son sees the Father. The essence of God sometimes
used Jesus as the reflection of the image
of the Father. The father
and the Holy Spirit are one but the essence substance is different. The
divine essence
of God the Father unto us is only the expression to His
Son or to the Holy Spirit. But never the God the Father leaves
the
Heaven came to the earth and became immanentHis substance is with us. No!
And never God the Father leave His throne
and He never became the Mother
of Mary, only His Son Jesus became the son of Mary.
5. Relationship Persons
in Trinity: God the Son The analogy of Love:
God is love; therefore He loves His only begotten Son John 3:16. The
Son
which the beloved of the Father, makes His father, Father; and the
essence of love they have is the Holy Spirit
because Love made them one.
The Love: And their relationship has no flow without
love, Love the Holy Spirit is the one who made them in contact, and
unite into one. Their relationship is in quite distance, when Jesus came
to the earth, the Father is in Heaven. Jesus
as a Son reveals Himself
the image of the Father and Himself as a Son.
The Prayer: Jesus call His Father in prayer My
Father, thou art in Heaven. God is in Heaven which Jesus is in earth. Jesus
as appeared to men in Human form, yet their were still in unity because
of Love. The Love carried by the Holy Spirit
is the one who made them
one.
The Cross: The heavenly Father sent His only begotten
Son who died on the cross, call Him Father in your hands I commit
my
Spirit. There was a separation of the Father and the Son, As the Son
bears the Sin of the world.
The Emotion and Action: The Father grieved for His
Son, and the Son grieved for the pain of paying the prize of Sins of
the
world. The God the Father was bestowing His Divine energy, By causing
darkness to fall during the day, the earthquake,
the renting of the veil
in the Temple. God the Father is revealing His might, and wisdom. His
Divine energy, cause
also the tom where Jesus was buried open.
The Separation: The relationship between the Father
and the Son was separated for the moment when Jesus bears the sins
of
the world Jesus became a sinner and His Father God is holy and he cannot
be with the sinners; so Jesus died in
the Death of separating himself
to the Father and the Holy Spirit because of Sin. And Jesus died and
gave up His life
because of bearing the pain of the Sin that He cannot
bear except giving up His Life. But as Jesus came to life, Jesus
seated in
the right hand of the Father.
The resurrection: It was God the Father who
resurrects Jesus, using His divine energy through the Holy Spirit.
The Fellowship: The Father which is Transcendent
and JesusImmanence sit with Him at His right Hand. The Holy Spirit
is
the one who occupy the universe (Gen 1:1) the made the Father and the
Son One is the activator of the Divine energy.
When Jesus went to heaven
He promised to send His Holy Spirit when He ascended to Heaven. During
the Holy Spirit baptism,
it was the Holy Spirit Who pours out the power
the Divine Energy. It is the Divine energy of God who made the early
church
grew. It is also the divine energy of God who shows to Paul in the
road of Damascus. Paul saw the light and hears the
voice of God. It is
the divine energy through the Holy Spirit that appears to Paul. Jesus
was in heaven and He will
not break His word that He will go back in the
end times, in second coming. It is the Holy Spirit through Divine
energy
of God.
Application: Never forget the meaning of the word immanence,
Transcendent, Divine Energy, Love,
Fellowship, The Cross, Emotional Reaction,
Resurrection and the Separation. These are the best elements when you
explain
Trinity. This is also served as the manual of the theological and
doctrinal issue. May this paper help you to explain
the theology of the
trinity.
Conclusion: The fountain Head of Trinity is composed of the Father
Pater,
The Son Filuis, and the Holy Spirit Sacntus. The Head of the
trinity is the Father in their relationship but not
in their function. There
is no first, second or third person in trinity. They are all equal in
position and power.
The Father cannot be a Father without the Son and
the relationship of the Father and the Son is nothing without the Holy
Spirit that binds them both. The Divine Energy of God is used through the
Son and the Holy Spirit.
The illustration of the function of the trinity
was when Jesus came to the earth and died and rose again and seated in
the right hand of the Father. It is the God the Father who loves Us and
sent His Son Jesus to die for our sins and
His Holy Spirit will empower
us to live in the likeness of Jesus.
Therefore the attribute of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit is different but in general what attributes they
had is the same and one because they are one God.
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