Trinity Chart
The following Chart is taken from CARM and was made by Matt Slick:
FATHER | SON | HOLY SPIRIT | |
---|---|---|---|
Called God | Phil. 1:2 | John 1:1,14; Col. 2:9 | Acts 5:3-4 |
Creator | Isaiah 64:8 | John 1:3; Col. 1:15-17 | Job 33:4, 26:13 |
Resurrects | 1 Thess. 1:10 | John 2:19, 10:17 | Rom. 8:11 |
Indwells | 2 Cor. 6:16 | Col. 1:27 | John 14:17 |
Everywhere | 1 Kings 8:27 | Matt. 28:20 | Psalm 139:7-10 |
All knowing | 1 John 3:20 | John 16:30; 21:17 | 1 Cor. 2:10-11 |
Sanctifies | 1 Thess. 5:23 | Heb. 2:11 | 1 Pet. 1:2 |
Life giver | Gen. 2:7: John 5:21 | John 1:3; 5:21 | 2 Cor. 3:6,8 |
Fellowship | 1 John 1:3 | 1 Cor. 1:9 | 2 Cor. 13:14; Phil. 2:1 |
Eternal | Psalm 90:2 | Micah 5:1-2 | Rom. 8:11; Heb. 9:14 |
A Will | Luke 22:42 | Luke 22:42 | 1 Cor. 12:11 |
Speaks | Matt. 3:17; Luke 9:25 | Luke 5:20; 7:48 | Acts 8:29; 11:12; 13:2 |
Love | John 3:16 | Eph. 5:25 | Rom. 15:30 |
Searches the heart | Jer. 17:10 | Rev. 2:23 | 1 Cor. 2:10 |
We belong to | John 17:9 | John 17:6 | ... |
Savior | 1 Tim. 1:1; 2:3; 4:10 | 2 Tim. 1:10; Titus 1:4; 3:6 | ... |
We serve | Matt. 4:10 | Col. 3:24 | ... |
Believe in | John 14:1 | John 14:1 | ... |
Gives joy | ... | John 15:11 | John 14:7 |
Monotheism and Equality
Indeed, we cannot stop by only showing the deity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We must now show that this Tri-unity is consistent with the Bible’s testimony about monotheism. We must show the “oneness” in the “threeness.” From the first chapter and verse of Holy Scripture, we see the One Being of God.
Gen. 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
He is the God Who was there even before time began. He is the First and the Last. There was not a war among the gods which resulted in the creation, or creation of preexistent matter, no. The God of the Bible is the only God that exists, all others are delusions and are false. He is the Sovereign and all-sufficient God Who created by Himself with no help from any other creature. He creates and sustains every one of them, yet He is not sustained by them (Acts 17:24-27). He is the only God that ever was, is and will be. Before Him, there was no god and after Him, there will be no god (Isa. 43:10). In all the Creation narrative we do not get the slightest hint that there is more than one God, but there is clearly only one true and living God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. But it is likewise very interesting to see that even in the first chapter we receive glimpses of the doctrine of Trinity. Not exactly a trinity, but a plurality of persons within the one Being of God. We read in the 26th verse:
Gen. 1:26 Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and ...