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One Godhead in Three Distinct Persons, Who are 100% equally YHWH

 

Isaiah 48:16

Come ye near unto Me, hear ye this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I; and now the Lord GOD hath sent Me, and His Spirit

 

The Hebrew for Deuteronomy 6:4, can also mean;

“Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God Yahweh is Unique”

 

Good to see you using this very important Scripture, which is without any doubt, the Original as written by John. Regardless of the corrupt Greek manuscripts that have removed the words, God endured that they were put back where they belong, and used a humanist scholar, Erasmus, because the "Reformed" would have not done so!

 

Matthew 28:19 and The Trinity

“Therefore go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”

“εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος”

In the first place, Jesus does not say, “ὀνόματα”, which is the plural number, “Names”, as in “The Father and The Son and The Holy Spirit”, Three Names. Rather, it is clear that Jesus says, “τὸ ὄνομα”, THE NAME. In Greek, as the preposition “εἰς” is used, there is no need for the definite article, “τὸ”, as we could still say “The Name”. It is done here by Jesus for a clear purpose, to show that He has a definite NAME in mind.

The NAME is what was given to Moses, when he saw the Burning Bush in Exodus chapter 3. In verse 13 Moses says to God:

“And Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the sons of Israel, and shall say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, What is His Name? What shall I say to them?”

To which we see the reply from the Lord:

“And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And He said, So you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you. And God said to Moses again, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, YAHWEH the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My title from generation to generation” (verses 14-15)

“Ehyeh ’ăsher ’ehyeh”, is what God told Moses, which is best translated as “I am that I am”, as the ever-present God, Who went before the Children of Israel. The Hebrew Name of God, “Yahweh”, has its root in the verb, “’ehyeh”, speaking of the “eternal, self-existence” of the God of the Holy Bible, Who is Unique, as He has no equal. Interesting, when the Jewish scholars who translated the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek, in the 2nd century BC, which has become known as the Septuagint (LXX) Version, they translated these words in verse 14, as, “ Εγω ειμι ὁ Ων”, literally, “I am He Who Exists”, or, “I am The Eternal One”. Which is what the Hebrew means. The Name YAHWEH is God’s Name forever. This is The Name that is used by Jesus Christ in Matthew 28:19. One Divine Name, for The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Thereby asserting their absolute, equal DEITY.

Next, we read, “του πατρος και του υιου και του αγιου πνευματος”, that is, “The Father and The Son and The Holy Spirit”. The Greek "article" (του), is repeated, with each noun, to show that a "distinction" of Persons is meant. “The repeated article, on the other hand, implies a separation, in themselves, or in the view taken of them” (Dr Samuel Green; Handbook to the Grammar of the Greek Testament, pages, 198-199). The Father is not the Son or the Holy Spirit. The Son is not the Father or the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, is not the Father or the Son.

 

Philosophically apart from the written word of God, this can be deduced God to be persons.
One God as three distinct entities identified as persons.

First what God is. Being who He is.

Second all the things that are not God have been caused. A cause requires God yet is distinct from God and must be God too. A second entity.

Third what constitutes the two distinct entities being the same entity is a third entity.

First what God is. Being who He is.
Existence exists. God is the uncaused really in which our existence exists. Because of unbelief I must show a Scripture, Acts of the Apostles, 17:28, . . . For in Him we live, and move, and have our existence . . . .

 

For some reason I want to call the OP, Patrick...

 

Laugh out loud, I think you may even be speaking Celtic here. Anyone care to translate the words that Jon just wrote. I mean really, Patrick...

 

Both the Old Testament and New Testament gives us explicit evidence for the three Persons who are God.

The term "Trinity" is the name of the explanation. Not a mystery.

 

Why do I get the feeling there is some misrepresentation going on in this thread?

 

What???

 

What people get confused about is that the Trinity are the Persons. God is not made up of parts. Simply, each of those distinct Persons individually are each that same God. Now the Son of God was and is both the Son and God. And the Son of God, He is another topic. He is God the uncaused Cause, John 1:3, John 1:10.

Philosophical and Biblical Trinity of God.