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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



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!”



Church has

Least defended

Least preached



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 “



BIBLE

Starting might be complex

By the end of this session rejoicing

Trinity is not for arguing



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 )



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



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



Hebrew Faith therefore

Thus believes in one harmonious god

Extremely important point



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.



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.



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



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.



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



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.



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



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



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:



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



Perplexed Peter



Perplexity Of 5 Loves and 2 fishes



Perplexity of Disciples

Jesus Calming the Storm



Emmaus Road Perplexity



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



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



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 ?”

Peter jumped out saying “ you re the son of God

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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



About Jesus’s life: Boyhood-

BarMitzvah

Heavenly father throughout

Boyhood : Lost in Father’s house by Parents



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.



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



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



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

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Look at the CROSS of Calvary



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



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:



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



JOHN’S Gospel : LOGOS

3 sevens

7 miracles

7 claims

7 witnesses



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.



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



Thomas’s Witness of Jesus Christ as God



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.



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



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.



JESUS’S BAPTISM



JESUS TEMPTED:

LED AND KEPT BY HOLY SPIRIT



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



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



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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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




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.




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.




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




Asserts TRIUNE GOD

No mention of the word TRINITY

But thinking God in three persons

Heart of the Doctrine



Part 2

Attack : Message & Messenger

Defending

Practical implications

Of Rejoicing and not a Burden



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