Understanding The Trinity, Three Persons vs Three Manifestations


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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

How many Persons are there in the Godhead?

(Job 13:7-8, Hebrews 1:3, II Corinthians 4:3-6, Colossians 1:13 -19, 2:8-9)

According to the scriptures, there's only one person in the Godhead. God shows himself as a Person in Job 13:7-11 and He shows Himself as a Person in Hebrews 1:3,8. There are no scriptures in the King James Version nor any other version wherein God speaks of himself as 3 persons.

God speaks of himself as one Person and his image and glory is shown in the face of Jesus Christ (II Corinthians 4:3-6). The Father in his Deity is a person but not a separate person like we would think. He is a Spirit. The Holy Ghost which was sent in the name of Jesus, as a person but not a separate person like we would think, He is the Spirit of God/Christ. The Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit of Christ are equivalent titles for the same Person. God is the same Person in 3 different manifestations of himself.

The one Person of God, in a natural and Spiritual sense, is Jesus Christ (Colossians 1:14-19, 2:9). He is the incarnation of the Father. The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Jesus Christ, or Christ in Spirit form. Jesus Christ is the God whom we can see. He is one Spirit, one Person, one God (Deuteronomy 6:4, Luke 2:11, John 1:1-14, Romans 1:20-21, Colossians 1:13-20, Hebrews 1:3).

In other words, God is a Spirit. He is the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. These titles refer to the same God in different forms or manifestations. The Scriptures say that the Father is well pleased to dwell in the body of Christ and that in Christ dwells all of the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Matthew 3:17, 17:5, Mark 1:11, Luke 3:22, II Peter 1:17, Colossians 1:19, 2:8-9).

It is not scriptural and it’s erroneous to say that there are three separate and distinct Persons in the Godhead. God never said it, and it cannot be proven by the Scriptures. There is only one Person in the Godhead according to Colossians 2:8-12. We are buried with Jesus Christ by baptism and we are complete in him.

This is an edited version from my book, "Understanding the Trinity, Three Persons vs Three Manifestation. www.google.com will daniels understanding the trinity.