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God In Three Persons

Nick Duke, August 24, 2008 39 min and 51 sec. You don't have Flash installed. Please use the download link instead. Low Quality (4.6 MB), High Quality (18.3 MB)

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Outline

The Glory of the Christian Religion

• Embarrassing?
• Irrelevant?
• Invented?

How has God revealed Himself?

• Old Testament
  
  • Unity
  • Hints
• New Testament
  • Complex Unity
  • Revealed in the Son, Jesus
• As ‘Trinity’: ‘There is one God who eternally exists as three distinct persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

What is affirmed:

1. The Father, Son and Spirit are three distinct persons.
2. Each person is fully God
3. There is only one God.

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  ²He was in the beginning with God.  ³All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3)

What is denied:

1. God has three modes or faces (Modalism)
2. Jesus is a created being, not fully God (Arianism / JWs)
3. That there are three Gods (Polytheism)

Evidence on Jesus

• Matthew 28:16-20
• John 8:39-59
• Implicit References
• Explicit References

What is at stake:

• God’s Character
• God’s Gospel
• Our salvation

Readings

John 1:1-18

Matthew 28:16-20

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