An Exegesis on the Trinity.

 

 

It has been a while since I did an exegesis, but now it's the perfect time to do this. I wanted to do it, because many young Christians don't know what the Trinity is. Another reason why I did it is because we have a new generation of people who not only disagree with the Trinity but bash it like the false preacher Gino Jennings (who preaches the heresy of Oneness modalism. Gino Jennings supports the witchcraft glorifying, false Apocrypha books too). 

So, this work will stand out with evidence from the Scriptures to confirm the Trinity 100 percent. The Trinity means that one God exists in three persons. These persons are God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. They have existed since the beginning of the Universe. They exist simultaneously. The Son is not the Father or the Holy Spirit. The Trinity exists as one substance, power, nature, and essence. This concept is found in Nature. A human has a mind, body, and spirit. So, humans have a compound unity. So, God is a complex, compound, yet unified being.

 

Distinctions and Differences between the Father and the Son:

1.Matthew 3:13-17 mentioned that God the Father said in an audible voice that Jesus is his beloved Son that he is well pleased. The Father in that situation identifies Jesus Christ as his Son. 

2. 1 John 1:1-3 proved that the Father exists with the Son in distinction of person. If the Father was the same as the Son, the Bible would say that the Father is the Son. Yet, that isn't the case. 

3. John 3:14-19 is a verse saying that God gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. The Bible explicitly only calls the Son (Jesus Christ not God the Father) alone being begotten. 

4. John 16:3 showed Jesus saying a distinction between him and the Father. If the Son was the same as the Father, the Bible would so. It doesn't, because the Son is making a distinction between him and the Father in person not in nature

5. Matthew 26:39-42 outlines how Jesus Christ prayed to the Father three times in doing his will.

6. Matthew 24:36 is explicitly clear that only the Father knows the day or the hour of the end, not the Son. This is the smoking gun evidence proving a distinction between the Father and the Son. If both are completely the same, the Son would know the day or the hour of the end.

7. Philippians 2:5-6 outlines how the Lord Jesus Christ and the Father have equality. 

8. John 5:19 is another verse showing that Jesus or the Son saying that when the Father does something, he will do it also. 

9. John 1:18 outlines that no human has seen God the Father only the begotten Son of God. 

10. John 8:15-18 mentioned that Jesus Christ said that the Father sent him. If the Son and the Father were the same person, the Son wouldn't have made these comments. It is obvious that the New Testament makes it clear that there is a distinction between the Father and the Son. 

 

The Plurality and Compound Unity of one God:

1. Genesis 1:1-4, 26 said that God created the heavens and the Earth in the beginning. Later, it mentioned God saying Let us make man in our image. God in those verses means Elohim, and Elohim is a Hebrew plural noun signifying a unified compound being. 

2. Deutonomy 6:4 shows that "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD" and when that is literally translated it reads Shema Israel, Yehovah Elohim (Adonai) echad! One is translated as echad meaning a group united as one not a solitary one which would mean yachid in Hebrew. This source outlines this, "the only word that applies to God (Elohim) in the O.T., then this would be a death sentence of the Trinitarian believers. The word yachid means an absolute or solitary one." (Francis Brown, S. R. Drivr, and Charles Briggs, A Hebrew English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford, Charendon, 1966, pg. 402).

"Elohim conveys both the unity of the one God, and yet allows for the plurality of Divine Persons as expressed in the historical Christian doctrine of the Trinity. It is unique to monotheistic Israel and is not found in the language of any of her polytheistic, Semitic neighbors (Jack B. Scott, S.V. "elohim", in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 2 vols:, Chicago, Moody Press, 1980, 1:44). 

The unity in multiplicity is the essence of the Trinity or a plurality in one unity (God)

The Holy Spirit being a Different Person than the Father

1. John 15:26-27 said that the Comforter proceeds from the Father. The Comforter is the Holy Spirit. 

2. 2 Corinthians 13:14 outlines the distinction of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. 

3. 2 Cor 13:14 and Mt 28:19 document the personality of the Holy Spirit. 

4. II Peter 1:21 mentioned that the prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit. 

5. Matthew 28:19 shows the words of Jesus Christ being a direct commandment to his absolutes and followers. Jesus Christ said, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." The singular use of "name" does NOT indicate a single name for all three, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It indicates a singular name for each one. 

The Greek reads:

"eiV to onoma tou PatroV kai tou Uiou kai tou Hagiou PneumatoV"

"in the name the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost."

Furthermore, had Jesus used the plural (names), the grammar would indicate a plurality of names for each individual one  ("the names of the Father, and the names of the Son, and the names of the Holy Ghost.")

Following is another verse where Granville Sharp applies:

1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

(KJV)

The last line in Greek reads:

"o arnoumenoV ton Patera kai ton Uion."

"that denieth the Father and the Son."

The definite article "tou" (the) before Son and Holy Ghost indicates that they are all different things or persons. The grammatical rule in Greek for determining whether a single thing or person is meant, or different things or persons is meant, when "and" appears, is called the "Granville Sharp rule." The basic rule is as follows:

"If two nouns of the same case are connected by a "kai" (and) and the article (the) is used with both nouns, they refer to different persons or things. If only the first noun has the article, the second noun refers to the same person or thing referred to in the first." {Curtis Vaughn, and Virtus Gideon, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament" (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1979), p. 83.}"

The presence of the article "the" before Son and Holy Spirit where all three are connected by "and" indicates three separate persons. The singular use of "name" implies that each has a separate name.

More References of the Trinity in the Old Testament

 

1. Isaiah 48:16 mentioned the distinctions of the Holy Spirit, the Father, and the Son overtly.

2. Psalm 2:1-9 truly mentioned a conversation between the Father and the Son, and the Father said that he has witnessed the begotten Son.

3. Psalm 110:1-5 showed verses about the God the Father and the Messiah (the Son) making God's enemies his footstool. 

4. Proverbs 30:4 described the power of God and His Son in very great detail. 

The Historical Support of the Trinity by the Early Church

1. Theophlius of Antioch in 180 A.D. wrote of the Trinity in his Chapter XV-Of the Fourth Day, To Autolycus 2:15). Other early Christians like Justin Martyr, Ignatius, Polycarp, Athenagrius, and other have written quotes believing in distinctions of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and other concepts of the Trinity. 

 

 

By Timothy