3.4 the Triune Gid explained in the Bible

• what is emphasised when God is called the Triune God?

  One God that is also three persons
• who are the three persons of God?

  • the Father
  • the Son
  • the Holy Spirit
• what Bible verses are the Trinity based on?

  • Deuteronomy 6:4
  • Matthew 3:16-17
  • Galatians 4:6
• what does Deuteronomy 6:4?

  ' Hear, O Israel : The Lord is our God, the Lord alone '
• Deuteronomy 6:4

  • in this verse from the Old testament, the words ' The Lord alone ' stresses there is only one God
  • through the teachings of Jesus in the New testament, Christians have come to believe that God is three persons
  • three separate persons but only one God which forms the foundation for belief in the trinity
• what does Matthew 3:16-17?

  ' and when Jesus had been baptised, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, This is my Son, the beloved, with whom I am well pleased '
• The Holy Spirit

  • the love that unites the Father and the Son
  • Here the Holy Spirit is represented by a dove which comes down from God the Father to stay with Jesus
• Father

  the Father is the ' voice ' from heaven
• Son

  the Father calls Jesus his Son ( Christians believe God the Son took on human from to become Jesus )
• Matthew 3:16-17

  • Jesus' baptism is when God reveals himself as the Trinity
  • it shows there really are three Persons who all coexist at the same time not just one Person who sometimes appears as the Father and at other times as the Son or Holy Spirit
• what does Galatians 4:6 say ?

  ' And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his son into our hearts crying ' Abba! Father! '
• Galatians 4:6

  • explains the relationship between the Trinity and a Christian
  • Christians are God's children and brothers or sisters to Jesus
  • God the Father pours our the Holy Spirit into a Christians heart. This is the love that unites the Father and the Son and it fills the person with grace