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BIBLE STUDY-21감리교회 교리 2021. 9. 26. 09:00
Peace Methodist Church 2021. 9. 26.
The Trinity
◎ In Genesis 1:1, the original word Elohim, “God” is certainly the plural form of El, and has long been supposed to imply a plurality of persons in the divine nature.
As this plurality appears in so many parts of the Bible to be confined to three persons, hence the doctrine of the Trinity, which has formed a part of the creed of all those who have been deemed sound in the faith, from the earliest ages of Christianity.
In God there are found three persons, not separately existing, but in one infinite unity; who are termed God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, all existing in the one infinite and eternal Godhead. These three divine persons are frequently termed among Christians the Trinity.
(Adam Clarke, Christian Theology, Schmul Publishing Co., 1967, p.81.)
◎ There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body and parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the maker and preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there are three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
(The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church, 2000, p.59.)
◎ We believe in the one true, holy and living God, Eternal Spirit, who is Creator, Sovereign and Preserver of all things visible and invisible. He is infinite in power, wisdom, justice, goodness and love, and rules with gracious regard for the well-being and salvation of men, to the glory of his name. We believe the one God reveals himself as the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, distinct but inseparable, eternally one in essence and power.
(The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church, p.66-67.)
◎ Salvation means acceptance by God the Father on the basis of the Son’s merits. This divine acceptance is mediated and witnessed to man by the Holy Spirit.
(Lycurgus M. Starkey, Jr., The Work of the Holy Spirit: A Study in Wesleyan Theology, Abingdon, 1962, p.30.)