Doctrine of the Holy Trinity
The basis of the doctrine of trinity is based on the "God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy spirit" epithet among the Christians. God is abundantly regarded as pure spirit who cannot be seen by the eyes of every person (spirit) and associated with a material body (son) who and the material body was sent to the world by the father to save the world, these hence form the basis of the modern church, faith in Him. Although the Bible makes use of anthropomorphisms together with anthropopathetic language, these do not mean that God has eyes and ears. Otherwise, the Scripture would be considered inconsistent as Jesus states in the New Testament that God is Spirit.
God is spirit
This is one of the characteristic of God that makes Him acquire the trinity nature. The Spirit nature of God makes the first part of the trinity. Man cannot see Him eye-to-eye, even the prophets in the Old Testament who happened to be in communication with God only heard His voice or saw the signs of His presence. God's appearance to the great prophets in the Old Testament is significant since such events communicated his presence so that His people could recognize Him. Due to His spirit nature, He appeared in various forms that were not material in nature particularly in the Old Testament. For instance, Isaiah's experience of the vision of God in the temple was a way of communicating the truth to mankind as no man could see God then and still live. Man could not endure to see God. When Moses asks God to be shown His glory, He answers by giving His attributes and not the material manifestation of Himself
. At the same time, God says He cannot allow His face to be seen and Moses only sees his back, which gives him a slight idea of God's magnificence.
This nature of God can be further experienced in the New Testament, which indicates widely that even as the son of God became personified and among believers, only direct witnesses had a chance of seeing Him in the form of a servant. God is also considered to be above all limitations bearing His spiritual nature and He is the giver of law and above the law
.God is invisible as He is a spirit, which means that He has no bones as well as flesh making him intangible.
The spirit, being one of the attributes of God that supersedes the physical manifestation of the gods, is further portrayed in the attributes that He has in both the Old and the New Testament. His qualities as a judge, a shepherd, a potter and so on are immortalized in the spiritual forms and not mere physical forms. As a pure spirit, devoid of any physical substance, He cannot be tainted or associated with any person who is sinful. This nature of God goes beyond the physical gods that man every other time reverted to; hence the spiritual nature of God is used to elate God on a podium higher than any other tangible thing or gods.
God is a divine
The divinity of God is deeply rooted in His spiritual nature. The Christian doctrine talking about Jesus having two natures is termed as a hypostatic union. This notion involves the teaching that the word of God, which is divine, manifested itself in the form of flesh and lived among human kind as Jesus Christ. Jesus as one person is human as well as spirit as it is indicated that the spirit of God the father is in Him, hence He retains the divine nature even after assuming the physical nature as part of the trinity. The human nature of Jesus does not affect the divinity of the trinity aspect as indicated in the book of Malachi which states that God does not change
. Nonetheless, the blending of the two natures in one person called Jesus does not change God's nature. The hypostatic union demonstrates Jesus as one person with divine nature and human nature as there is no combination of the two natures.
Omnipresence of God
This is yet another attribute of God. Omni is a prefix derived from Latin which means 'all'. The omnipresence means existing everywhere which is an attribute of God. Indeed, most religions, regard God as omnipresent, but in Judaism and Christianity, this attribute is further used as an inalienable attribute of God that contributes to the wholeness and immanence of God. Though God is not physically engrossed in the fabric of creation, He is found everywhere...
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