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Part 1BIBLE
Dr JUBIL THOMAS, SOLID ROCK CHURCH DROGHEDSA IRELAND
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Christian Faith –
Doctrine of Trinity under
attack
Islam:
Accusation of worshipping 3 gods – Father /Son/
Virgin Mary
Jehovah’s witnesses:
Accusation : us of being Heretics
Feminism : Huge attack
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Feministic Theology
John 19 v 5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and
the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
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Church has
Least defended
Least preached
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For Clarity Fortifies faith
Trinity word not in the bible – accusation as invented
First sessions we will see how this doctrine grew
out
Early centuries of Church and how they developed “ Trinity “
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BIBLE
Starting might be complex
By the end of this session rejoicing
Trinity is not for arguing
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Bible : Layout
Jewish scriptures
Most nations then had many gods but
Jews believed in One God- Monotheism
From Abraham onwards
They knew his name ; JHVH
J = Y
Hebrew –”YAHWEH” = Jehovah ( British )
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Deuteronomy 6 v 4
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the
Lord is one.
Heart of the Jewish Scriptures
KNOW :wherever The word “LORD”
It is substituted for JHVH=YAHWEH
Jews would never say JHVH – hence
Hear, O Israel: The YAHWEH our God,
the YAHWEH is one
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The Word : “ ONE “ in Hebrew
Hebrew : There Two words for ONE
ONE means Singular- one person
There is another Hebrew word called ‘echadh ( said as aheed )
‘echad means many but united as one in harmony in mind and thought
Hebrew manuscript originally staes ‘echad’ for ONE GOD
Deuteronomy 6 v 4 :Hear, O Israel: The Lord our
God, the Lord is one
The Hebrew Word for 'One' (`echadh - and the Uniqueness of (אחד
God
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Hebrew Faith therefore
Thus believes in one harmonious god
Extremely important point
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Illustration of the Hebrew
word for one “ ’echad”
Married couple Genesis 2 v 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is
united to his wife, and they become one ( Hebrew ‘echad ) flesh.
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Careful look again :
One and Only GOD
One and the ONLY GOD
Isaiah 45 v 5
I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that
there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
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Yahweh : One ( ‘echad)
and the Only God –
Yet Hints of the plural harmony in OT as against
Just hints
Many Jews havent noticed
Those who noticed are perplerxed
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OT Hints of plurality
1. God talks to himself as US-
right from the beginning in Genesis
Genesis 2 v 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all
the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
Gen 11 : Babel tower v 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained
from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that
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OT HINTS of Plural harmony
Isaiah 6 v 8 : Isaiah’s Vision
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,
Whom shall I send, and who will go for
us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
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OT HINTS : Plural Harmony
2. The word translated for GOD in HEBREW
ELOHIM
Plural word
EL – means one god
ELOHA- means two
Elohim – means three
Puzzled the Jews
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OT HINTS :
ELOHIM
Genesis 1New International Version (NIV) : the original Hebrew
Manuscript
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God ( ELOHIM = 3 ) created the
heavens and the earth.
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OT HINTS : Very amazing
3. Yahweh ( LORD ) appears to
Abraham
Genesis 18 King James Version (KJV)
1 And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in
the tent door in the heat of the day;
2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed
himself toward the ground,
3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away,
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OT leaves us with two
questions about two people
1. Messiah ? Meaning “Christ” in
Greek
Right through OT all the way through
Are they expecting a human or divine Messiah ?
Some passages state Human and some Divine
ONLY NT : Christ is both human and divine
Jews still argue on this
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OT leaves us with two
questions about two people
2. Holy Spirit ? A thing or a person – it
or he ?
Some passages : thing / Others state about “ grieving
the Holy Spirit “
Cannot” grieve “ a thing but a person
Yet they all point to NT Where its answered
OT preparation for trinity For eyes to see
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NEW TESTAMENT
Is Strong as the OT: States that GOD is one
5 authors quote Deu 6 v 4
Jesus Himself said
I John 5 v 7 For there are three that bear
record in heaven, the Father, the Word,
and the Holy Ghost: and these three are
one.
Mark 12 v 29 And Jesus answered him,
The first of all the commandments is,
Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one
Lord:
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Yet : gets a bit complicated
That Disciples now met Jesus !!!!!
At First disciples couldn’t really make out who he
was
Gospel faithfully show their perplexity
Example : Storm stilled – “ what kind of a man is he
“
Two and half years to be revealed
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Perplexed Peter
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Perplexity Of 5 Loves and 2 fishes
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Perplexity of Disciples
Jesus Calming the Storm
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Emmaus Road Perplexity
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Look into Synoptic gospels
SYN : Together
Optic : See
First 3 gospels are synoptic
Faithful to record that for first two and half years
the disciples were perplexed
Though Jesus raised the dead, healed the sick
casting out the demons
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DEMONS knew who Jesus
was
But Jesus shut them up
Fallen angels they are
Jesus wished that the disciples themselvs figure
out who he is
Was waiting for the disciples to say
Jesus took them to Caesarea Philippi where the
origin of River Jordan
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Caesarea Philippi :
Mark 8 27- 35
Greek God “ Pan “ appeared as a man in Mythology
Another Caesar statue and hence called Caesarea Philippi
People considered Caeser as god
Jesus took the disciples to this place as the disciples fully knew this
Then Jesus Asks the disciples “ who do people say I am and then asks further Who am I ?”
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About Jesus
Long time Disciples new not : Birth,
Boyhood,Baptism
Mary didn’t share it
All three events had Father’s Role
He taught to call God as FATHER- “ Abba”-
Intimate prayer life
No Jew would ever do that
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About Jesus’s life: Boyhood-
BarMitzvah
Heavenly father throughout
Boyhood : Lost in Father’s house by Parents
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About Jesus’s life : Baptism
Baptism : Father Son Holyspirit in Action
He taught us to say our father
He himself addressed as My Father
because he was THE SON
John 10 v 30 I and my Father are one.
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13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his
disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and
others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living
God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for
flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in
heaven.
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build
my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus
the Christ.21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how
that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief
priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Caesarea Phillipi Revelation of
Jesus to Disciples: Mathew 16
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FIRST WOMAN TO KNOW
WHO JESUS WAS ?
” JOHN 11 V 27
Yes, Lord," she replied, "I believe that you are the Messiah, the
Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
MARTHA
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Jesus’s Trial
Religious Trial Charge : Condemned to Death
For Blasphemy “ For saying The Son of God “
Lk 22 v 70
Political Trial Charge : Blasphemous charge
converted to Treason “ KING OF THE JEWS “ Lk 23
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Look at the CROSS of Calvary
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Disciples convinced :
Jesus is “ The Son OF GOD “
Jesus the son of God and his relationship with the
father
Yet to settle it for themselves forever –
Resurrection
God’s Reversal of HUMAN wrong VERDICT
and proved The SONSHIP not Blasphemous
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Disciples convinced :
Jesus is “ The Son OF GOD “
Romans 1King James Version (KJV)
1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the
gospel of God,
2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David
according to the flesh;
4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according
to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
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JOHN’S Gospel : LOGOS
LOGOS : The reason why
Biology, Zoology, Meteorology ( Weather )
Psychology
Sociology
The Reason why things happen is the move
HE is THE REASON WHY : JOHN 1 v 1
JESUS is GOD
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JOHN’S Gospel : LOGOS
3 sevens
7 miracles
7 claims
7 witnesses
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John’s Gospel : 7 Miracles
5 not in the Synoptic gospels
Are more divine and are called SIGNS
Each miracle : SIGN pointing to GOD
JOHN 2 v 11
This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his
glory. And his disciples believed in him.
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John’s Gospel : 7 witnesses
and Claims about Jesus the
son of God and Messiah
7 Witnesses : Who called Jesus God
John 1 v 1, ending with Thomas “ My Lord my
God – a Jewish person !
Jesus 7 Claims : The Great Iam “ Yahweh “
Iam meaning “ Yahweh is
the bread of Life”,
“Good Shepherd”
The way the truth and the Life
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Thomas’s Witness of Jesus Christ as God
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John’s Gospel ends
John 21 v
24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and
wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is
true.
25 And there are also many other things which Jesus
did, the which, if they should be written every one, I
suppose that even the world itself could not contain the
books that should be written. Amen.
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The Jewish Problem- The
disciples !
Jews : Knew the God who brought them through the Red sea
Now they met Jesus who is God too
Its only Binitarian
However they also met the Holy Spirit who is also the same as
God the son God the Father
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The Holy Spirit !
OT Enigma – thing or a person ?
Allegories : wind, water
Jesus calls The Holy Spirit as “HE”
John 16 v
7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away:
for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart,
I will send him unto you.
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HOLY SPIRIT :
FROM ETERNITY TO ETERNITY
LUKE 1 V 34
Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin and have
no intimacy with any man?” 35 Then the angel replied to her, “The
Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a cloud]; for that reason the holy (pure, sinless)
Child shall be called the Son of God.
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JESUS’S BAPTISM
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JESUS TEMPTED:
LED AND KEPT BY HOLY SPIRIT
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The Holy Spirit : Greek
Manuscript NT
“Another Comforter “
Two terminology for ANOTHER-
ANOTHER / ANOTHER LIKE
Its ANOTHER LIKE which is used meaning Just like
ME ( Jesus ) –
so the Personality of The Holy Spiritjust like Jesus
Couldn’t come without the Ascension of Jesus
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Hence 3 persons
Yet same God that they knew from the
beginning
Same attitude, same care same comforter
Yet now just one GOD
The THREE IN ONE GOD
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NT : Apostles & Epistles
They are Clear about one GOD Deu 6 v 4
confirms Divinity of Jesus John 1 v 1, Titus 2 v 11-13
Acknowledges the three functions of the OT
God has : Creation, Salvation, Judgement
Only God does this and
the epistles attribute these to Jesus in the NT
hence his divinity confirmed
I Corinthians 8 v 4 In this matter, then, of eating food offered to idols, we
know that an idol is nothing in the world [it has no real existence], and
that there is no God but one
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NT : Apostles & Epistles
All take OT concepts of God – First and the last
Isa 44 v 6 & Apply it to Jesus Rev 1v 8, 22 v 16
At least 10 attributes of God the father in OT
applied to Jesus in the NT
All acknowledged the personality of the Holy
Spirit
they talk about 3
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NT : Apostles & Epistles
Asserts TRIUNE GOD
Ephesians 4
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
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NT : Apostles & Epistles
Asserts TRIUNE GOD
I Corinthians 12
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
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NT : Apostles & Epistles
Asserts TRIUNE GOD2 Corinthians 13
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
King James Version (KJV)
Asserting the experience of the disciples
Father Son Holy Spirit in equality
Use To Bless people
Worshipped the Father The son and the Holy Spirit
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NT : Apostles & Epistles
Asserts TRIUNE GOD
No mention of the word TRINITY
But thinking God in three persons
Heart of the Doctrine
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Part 2
Attack : Message & Messenger
Defending
Practical implications
Of Rejoicing and not a Burden
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