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DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY AND 3.4 Three Persons but Same Essence or Nature (al-Dzat) 3.5 Relationship Between God The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit 3.6 The Essence (al-Dzat) of God the Father is in the Son and the Holy Spirit 3.7 God Is Not Splitting Into Three Parts 3.8 The Three Divine Persons Do Not Exist Side By Side In The Divine World 3.9 In the Trinity No One is Greater, Less, Separate Nor Subordinate One to the Other 3.10 Jesus Could Not Be Separated From the Father and the Holy Spirit 3.12 Jesus: God That Became Man (al-Hulul wa al-Ittihad) 3.14 As A Perfect Sin Offering For Mankind: God Became Man |
The first verse of the Old Testament reads: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). God is plainly identified as “Creator”. Asserting Christ as “God”, Christians proceed to say that the world has been created directly by the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. – “The Work of the Holy Trinity.” The book of John has: “He (Jesus) was in the beginning with God. He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn’t make…But although the world was made through him, the world didn’t recognized him when he came.” (1:2-3, 10, NLT) Paul expressed the same thought: “Christ is the one through whom God created everything in heaven and earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see –kings, kingdoms, rulers and authorities. Everything has been created through him and for him.” (Colossians 1:16, NLT) From the Catechism of The Catholic Church we found: “There exists but one God ... he is the Father, God, the creator… He made all things by himself, that is, by his Word and by his Wisdom, by the Son and the Spirit" who, so to speak, are "his hands". Creation is the common work of the Holy Trinity…Though the work of creation is attributed to the Father in particular, it is equally a truth of faith that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit together are the one, indivisible principle of creation.”[1]
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