LET US ASK OURSELVES THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:
Taking into account all the content of the Bible, without considering other books or traditions of men or religious groups, what is more feasible
about the nature of God: that God is a Trinity, 3 distinct persons and
one true God (the mystery of the Trinity); that God is one person, one Being,
the theory of the ONENESS of God; or that God is a Family or Kingdom made
up at this time by 2 beings, the Father and the Son Jesus Christ (previously
the same Spokesperson or Word of God), who want to bring more children to their
Family and these human beings are engendered by His Spirit?
Based
solely on the content of the Bible —without adding later
traditions, conciliar creeds, or church doctrines—the model that most
directly fits the biblical text is the third option:
God as a Family or Kingdom currently composed
of the Father and the Son Jesus Christ, who seek to incorporate more children
through His Spirit.
Below is
the explanation taking into account only the Scriptures:
1. Two
clearly identified beings: the Father and the Son
Jesus constantly speaks of the Father
as a distinct being:
·
John 17:5: “Now therefore, Father, glorify me in your
presence with the glory which I had with you before the world was.”
·
John
8:17-18: “In your law it
is written that the testimony of two men is true. I am the one who bears
witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me.”
Here Jesus and the Father are
two separate witnesses, which contradicts the idea that they are one
person.
2. Jesus
is the begotten Son, not the Father in disguise or part of a mysterious fusion
·
John
1:1-2, 14: “In the
beginning was the Word... and the Word was with God... and the Word was God...
and the Word became flesh...”
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The Word (Logos) was
with God, but was also God. It indicates that there
is more than one divine being, but not multiple separate "gods," but
rather a unity in purpose and nature.
·
Hebrews
1:2-3: The Son is the
“radiance of his glory and the express image of his person.”
3. God
has a family plan with “many children”
·
Romans
8:29: “That he might be
the firstborn among many brothers.”
·
Hebrews
2:10-11: “For it was
fitting for him, for whom are all things... to bring many sons to glory...”
·
Ephesians
3:14-15: “...of the
Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.”
This does not speak of a Trinity, but
of a developing spiritual family.
4. The
Holy Spirit as a power or presence, not as a separate third person
·
Acts
2:17-18: “I will pour out
of my Spirit...”
·
Luke 1:35: “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the
power of the Most High will overshadow you...”
·
Romans
8:16: “The Spirit himself
bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.”
The Holy Spirit is never seen speaking
of himself as someone apart. Nor is he represented in the salutations of the
epistles:
“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ.”
(Romans 1:7, 1 Corinthians 1:3, Galatians 1:3, etc.)
5. Unity
in purpose, not in “person”
·
John 17:21-23: Jesus prays that his disciples may be one, even
as you, Father, are in me, and I in you... that they may be made perfect in
unity.
Here, unity
is functional and spiritual, not ontological or numerical. The
same can be said of the children who will be part of that family.
✝ ️ So what do we see in the Bible?
·
Two divine beings
(Father and Son) with one purpose, love and character.
·
A plan to bring
many humans to that same glory.
·
A Spirit who is
not presented as an independent person, but as the power or essence of God.
❌ And the Trinity?
·
The term Trinity
never appears in the Bible.
·
The Trinitarian
formula of Matthew 28:19 is discussed by some scholars as a possible later
addition.
·
No text
explicitly defines a “divine essence shared by three persons” as do the Athanasian
or Nicene Creeds, which emerged centuries later.
❌ And uniqueness (modalism)?
·
It denies the
distinction between Father and Son. However, the Scriptures often show Jesus
praying, speaking, and acting as distinct from the Father.
✅ CONCLUSION:
The
most biblically consistent thing is to understand that God is a divine family, composed
of the Father and the Son, and that through the Spirit
of God, they are begetting more children to be part
of that eternal family.
This model
requires no Greek philosophical "mysteries" or the fusion of persons.
It is based on the clear, relational language of the Bible.
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