The Divine Tri-Unity

Before the heavenly systems of planets, stars and suns swept through infinity in mighty curves and in their uniform relations, there was Elohim: He, the Eternal without beginning or ending, He who is above the whole course of time, He who in harmony beyond explanation possesses unity and life, God, the only true God, the absolute Spirit. (John 4:24 and 17:3 and Matt 28:19)

24 God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

3 And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God….

19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Three Divine Persons in essence, and yet one Supreme God, Elohim. At no time to be explained, yet the divine mystery of the trinity in unity allows itself to be represented to the human spiritual eye by a mathematical figure of the equilateral triangle.

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The triangle is formed by three overlapping circles in a set form. For each point, the circumferences converge. The straight lines pass from each point through the centres of the three circles, thus forming the equilateral triangle.

Also each of the three circumferences pass into and through the centres of the other circles. The thought of man commenced in the heart of the Triune God for him to dwell in the centre of His love and will, "fashioned after our (plural) likenes". Genesis 1: 26.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

Thus was man formed and created, a tripartite being, God FORMED a body of the uncursed earth, then breathed a spirit INTO this body of flesh, "..and man BECAME (created) a living SOUL" Genesis 2:7. Therefore man is a SOUL WITH A SPIRIT (Job 32:8) IN a body (1 Thes 5:23) Two parts spiritual and one part physical.

8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is Love (1John4:8);

8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Love is the deepest element of God's being, the innermost fount out of which His nature eternally flows, the creative centre that begets all His working and ruling. Augustine once said,"If God is love, then there must be IN Him a Lover, a Beloved and a Spirit of Love: for no love is conceivable without a Lover, and a Beloved" The concept of love itself involves a trinity: because:-

It always proceeds FROM the Lover
It always moves TOWARD the Beloved and
It always INTERTWINES the two together through the common Spirit of union.

This Divine mystery is one revealed by stages in the sacred history of God's love toward His wayward creation, mankind.

First God revealed His UNITY, and this in express contrast to the polytheistic environment and inclination of His first call-out-ones, the people of Israel (Deut. 7:6-8)

6 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7 The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Also in Exodus 20:1-3 and Isaiah 45:5,6 we see God's choice of Israel for His love.

1 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

5 I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.

Only after a lapse of centuries, when faith in the unity of God could no longer be doubted in Israel, through their captivity in Babylon, God revealed in the Greek scriptures the PLURALITY in the unity (Heb 1:1,2)

1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

It is now revealed to us that the Word and God are one, but still two. The interpretation of the following verse from 1 John 1,2 is from the original where 'with' has been replaced correctly by 'towards'. The Word isn't just 'with' God but constantly 'towards God.

1 In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was toward theGod, and God was the Word.
2 This was in the beginning toward the God.

which is confirmed in the Hebrew scriptures, in Isaiah 55:11:-

11 So shall My Word be that continually goeth forth OUT OF My mouth; it shall not RETURN unto Me void, but it shall accomplish THAT which I please , and it shall prosper whereto I sent it.

The Word that the first man disobeyed in the garden (Gen 3:11) and barred his return into God's presence after he was expelled (Genesis 3:24) now was sent (John1:14) to redeem fallen mankind and lead them back to the centre of God's presence, love and will. John 1:14;

14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt (tabernacles) among us (Israel), and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Here a divine DUALITY reveals itself. On the day of Pentecost, a Hebrew festival, the Holy Spirit of God, not merely a force, but a divine Person revealed the PLURALITY of Elohim. A divine Tri-unity of Jehovah Elohim revealed to mankind and recorded through the Holy Spirit in the scriptures for later generations.

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This diagram is really self explanatory. Elohim, that is God, His Word and his Holy Spirit in the form of the equilateral triangle. He has revealed Himself as a Father, through coming in a Son (Hebrews 1:2,) then ,coming in the Holy Spirit.

On the OUTSIDE of the triangle, through the dotted lines the Father is not the Son, neither the Son the Holy Spirit. etc: yet on the INSIDE - ( the essence) God IS the Word, the Son, and God IS the Father etc.

1. The God is Spirit. John 4:24.
2. The Word is Spirit. John 6:63
3. The Holy Spirit is the Eternal Spirit of God. Heb. 9:14.

Spiritual realities count with a God who is Spirit, His thoughts, as conveyed to mankind by the Lord's declarations by the Holy Spirit, are the vital principles from which all life and happiness and blessings flow.

In these days of God's grace, the believer who is IN CHRIST (2 Cor. 5:17 ) is a new creation, who has been given the Hebrew and Greek scriptures, plus the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, who will, on request open up and reveal this written Word to all sincere Bible students to be able to know God "Whom to know is life everlasting"; Deut 8:3 and Matt 4:4

3 …… that man does not live on bread only, but on every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of Jehovah does man continually live….

4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

In the Greek scriptures this tri-unity stands out for the first time at the baptism of Jesus spoken of in Matthew 3 :16,17;

16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 and lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

and then in the disciples commission and command to baptise in Matthew 28 :19.

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Also there are many "trinitarian" passages too. 1 Cor. 12 :4-6, 2 Cor. 13 : 14, Eph 2 : 18 -22, 2 Thess 2 : 13,14, Hebrews 9 :14 and 1 Peter 1 :2.

The word "trinity" is not in the scriptures, but there is evidence of this FACT on numerous occasions.

All the philosophical speculations concerning this problem of the Trinity, are to no purpose, and are mostly from an evil source, which has been going on for centuries.

Mankind is SAVED and REDEEMED by and through the WORD.
Is KEPT and MATURED by and through the Word.
And finally RETURNED to God by and through the Word, and through the Holy Spirit of God.

Thus fulfilling the delight and pleasure of the Triune God, in bringing His mankind (Ezek 18 :4 );

4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

back unto Himself in His new world. (Rev. 21 and 22).

1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.