The holy trinity doctrine as the foundation of Christian faith

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.

Why the Father dwells in the Believers

Everything that believers possess is offered by the Father by the agency of His Son who is Jesus Christ. As an assurance to believers of the Father's everlasting provision, God who is considered the Father indwells in every believer. The Father, who is with the believers relentlessly to offer blessings beyond any comparison and above one's imagination, constantly pours out heavenly blessings to those considered to be His children, as well as bestowing gifts of grace. These blessings comprise of elements such as such salvation, doctrine, family, friends, physical needs, and promises. The Father dwells in believers to watch over as well as protect believers as demonstrated in the book of James. God the Father happens to be with all believers to assure people of His enduring love and care. As an affectionate Father, God is concerned about the believer's welfare and continues to demonstrate His love by guiding and leading the paths through their lives.

God the Father indwells the believers to guard one against the ways of the world and glorify Jesus Christ in the life of a believer. This is a prayer from Christ for all believers as Christ prayer is not to take out a believer from this world but to be protected by the Father while in this world as written in the book of John. Jesus' prayer was also to be glorified through the actions of the believer in that the believer would gladly share in all his joys. The father provides everything for a believer needs through experiential consecration. Jesus prayed that the believer would be sanctified through the truth, which is a Biblical doctrine. Finally, Jesus' prayer was that believers would become one since the Father together with the Son are one. The unity of all the believers is accomplished by one way, which is the truth.

This is therefore another means through which God the father, as a part of the trinity, manifests Himself to the believers and makes known the fatherly part of God to human.

Christians' belief in the Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity is the highest manifestation of the presence of God among Christians. This is a teaching based on the nature that is difficult to challenge and incomprehensible. Nevertheless, God is always with the believers in all ways as He is incomprehensible, which does not imply that He is beyond a believer's understanding. This means that God cannot be described by any believer as He is beyond sheer description.

Trinity is a word which is not found in the Scripture, and is derived from a Latin word, Trinitas created by the theologian called Theophilus in AD180. On the other hand, the manifestation of the trinity is found in the Scripture as it indicates that the Father, the Son as well as the Holy Spirit being all in one nature, hence, exceptional

. These three forms of God combine to bring into supernatural completion of God as being one. There are many analogies that can be made to assist believers to understand the whole ideology of Trinity in one God. Although water is known for having three states as gas, solid and liquid as they cannot fully define the nature of God, as sometimes the notion becomes confusing. Instead, an explanation of how the first believers experienced God and start teaching a Trinitarian theology has been explained.

Jews were the first Christians, and, they were known as very firm monotheists, in that they strongly have the belief that God is one, and there are no other gods. This belief is considered an intellectual ascent, which often comprise the exclusive worshiping of God.

Believers worshiped God as the unique Creator of all things as He was not assisted by any person and as the highest Sovereign over every creation. The Jews alienated God from everything else in many ways, and by worshipping of God, they recognized Him as the only one from whom creation came. God is the sole Ruler of all creation in the world. The Jews spoke about personifications as aspects characteristics of God, especially the Word and Wisdom, which are essential to His identity. These personifications were not viewed as created or semi-divine creatures, but were often considered as belonging to God's exceptional identity while each having a discrete existence.

The first Christians faced Jesus and the spirit of God in ways that seemed radical. The life, death, as well as resurrection of Jesus made man experience God in such an exceptional and unique way that resulted to the believers recognizing his individuality related to God. Later the believers started to incessantly experience the spirit of God in unique and unpredicted ways. These experiences brought them all into a relationship with the Father as well as Jesus together. This is because they experienced the God believed to be of their ancestors through Jesus, as well as the Holy Spirit experiences as an assurance that Jesus never left them alone without a helper to guide them in the Christian life. They based their belief on the unique identity of God and personifications of characteristics related with Him and the identity of God

.Jesus was labeled as participating in Sovereignty of God over everything associated with the Lord which was reserved to God in Judaism. All this comprised of describing such acts of participating together with the Father in the actions of creation.

This experience of God in trinity therefore became the basis of Christians as a base of their faith as a reference to God the father who created them and commanded the universe from creation to the times of the end of the Old Testament, God the Son who gave them new valuable teachings and a manifestation of God the father in the human nature to show a proof of the existence of God the father, and God the Holy Spirit who is a manifestation of the continued abode of God among Christians in the current times and a companion as well as a link between man and God the father. This is why the ideology or doctrine of God the Trinity is valued so much among Christians.

Conclusion

An example of this ideology is found in the book of Corinthians, which states that there is only one God and Father from whom all creations were created. This also extends to one Lord, as Jesus the Messiah by whom all things are possible through Him. Similarly, declarations touching on the Holy Spirit were made, hence, drew on the conviction in the uniqueness of God and identity and personifications of characteristics of Him. One statement touching on the belief about the Holy Spirit was that the Spirit upholds creation as well as speaking to the people of God. Jesus as one person is divine and human.