The Trinity Part 2: Why the Doctrine of the Trinity Is Important and a Basic Article of our Faith.
Delivered Sunday, September 22, 2024, at Central Christian Church, Pocatello, Idaho.
The Concept of the Trinity Explains Six Concepts or Questions Regarding How Jesus Is the Bridge and Conduit by Being Fully Human and Divine
A. Explain the extent of God's Love for Us
B. Why we are to follow Jesus alone as King and example
C. Goes to the heart of us being able to know God and to be at one with God (atonement)
D. Both the How to and Why we maintain in proper tension our monotheism despite the Biblical portrayal of the spatially distinct appearances of the Father, Son, and the Spirit, e.g., at Jesus' baptism
1. Monotheism
2. Texts Mentioning All Three Persons of the Trinity
3. Text Recording Each Person as Having the Same Divine Attributes or Titles
E. Helps to explain How and Why Jesus Was Morally Able to Forgive Sins by Exercising His Divine Authority
F. Helps to Explain the Pre-human Existence of Jesus as God.
