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G O D T H E F A T H E R

The Triune God: The Greatness of God

Segment 1: God’s Greatness (Natural Attributes)

Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis

The Word of God plainly asserts that there is only one God (the Shema , Deut. 6.4), and yet also affirms the deity of God the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity is the product of accepting the Bible’s teaching on God’s oneness , while at the same time, affirming what it says regarding the divine nature of the persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. • The doctrine of the Trinity refers to the Bible’s teaching about God’s triune personhood. • The Scriptures assert that God is one, and that there is none other than the one God, and yet they also assert that the one God reveals himself as God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. • Each member of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) possess the attri- butes and do the work of God, are called God, and exercise authority as God. • The Bible affirms both God’s oneness and God’s plurality (that the Godhead is more than one person), with the persons Father, Son, and Holy Spirit addressed together as being persons within the Godhead. • The Church has attempted to draft understandings of the Bible’s teachings on the Trinity, with varying degrees of acceptance among believers. • We must assert God’s trinitarian nature, affirming that the members of the Trinity, though God in three persons, are in fact one, diverse, and equal, together comprising the one true God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Our objective for this segment, God’s Greatness, is to enable you to see that:

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