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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 |
Until this point, the matter is clear. Further on, however, the Christian explanation of the conception of God is extremely ambiguous and difficult to understand. Nevertheless, we shall present the interpretation and explanation of this doctrine, which appears to be generally accepted by Christians. By referring to the Creed, Christianity holds that God is One, but the Oneness of God is manifested in three-different or distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost). They confessed that the Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three separate Gods at all but 'One'. Josh McDowell, the great Christian evangelist of our time, in his book “Jesus: A Biblical Defense Of His Deity”, states that: “Out of all reality or existence, only God is tripersonal or triune. By triune, from which the word Trinity comes, we mean that God is consistently revealed as subsisting eternally as three persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). These three persons make up the Godhead, yet there is only one God.”[2]
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