{"id":3692,"date":"2012-07-12T09:35:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:35:44","slug":"the-trinity-what-difference-does-it-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2012\/07\/12\/the-trinity-what-difference-does-it-make\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trinity: What Difference Does It Make?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The following is adapted from Robert Bowman, Jr.’s article\u00a0The Biblical Basis of the Doctrine of the Trinity<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>available at the Blue Letter Bible commentaries<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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  1. SOVEREIGNTY.<\/strong> Because the three persons have each other, we can be assured that God created us only to share the love they have and not as a means to His own end: Acts 17:25;\u00a0John 17:21-26.<\/li>\n
  2. MYSTERY.<\/strong> The triune God is totally unlike anything in our world, and therefore greater than anything we can comprehend:\u00a0Rom. 11:33-36;\u00a0Isa. 40:18.<\/li>\n
  3. SALVATION.<\/strong> God alone planned our salvation, came to save us, and dwells in us to complete our salvation:\u00a01 Pet. 1:2; Eph. 1:3-18; etc.<\/li>\n
  4. PRAYER.<\/strong> We pray to the Father through the Son, and also pray to the Son directly, in the Spirit:\u00a0John 14:13-14; Eph. 2:18; etc.<\/li>\n
  5. WORSHIP.<\/strong> We worship Father and Son in the Spirit: John 4:23-24;\u00a0Phil. 3:3;\u00a0Heb. 1:8; etc.<\/li>\n
  6. LOVE.<\/strong> The love among the three persons is the basis and model for our love for one another:\u00a0John 17:26.<\/li>\n
  7. UNITY.<\/strong> The unity of the three persons is the basis and model for the unity of the church:\u00a0John 17:21-23.<\/li>\n
  8. HUMILITY.<\/strong> As the persons of the Trinity seek the glory of each other, so we should seek the interests of others above our own:\u00a0Phil. 2:5-11;\u00a0John 16:13-14.<\/li>\n
  9. SONSHIP.<\/strong> We are “sons of God” as we are united with the Son of God by the work of the Holy Spirit and the adoption of the Father:\u00a0John 1:12-23;\u00a0Rom. 8:14-17.<\/li>\n
  10. TRUTH.<\/strong> All those who wish to worship and love God must seek to know Him as He is in truth, for God, as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is truth:\u00a0John 4:24;\u00a014:6,\u00a014:17;\u00a015:26;\u00a016:13.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For more information, visit the BLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The following is adapted from Robert Bowman, Jr.’s article\u00a0The Biblical Basis of the Doctrine of the Trinity,\u00a0available at the Blue Letter Bible commentaries. SOVEREIGNTY. Because the three persons have each other, we can be assured that God created us only to share the love they have and not as a means to His own end: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9221,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/9221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}