Three in Person: Foundations - An Overview of Systematic Theology with R.C. Sproul

[@ligonier]

This message is from Dr. Sproul’s 60-part teaching series Foundations: An Overview of Systematic Theology. Watch the entire series: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/foundations

[@3DL1]

Always love Dr Sproul's teaching. (Uk street preacher)

[@ngayihiabbealaindidier471]

Thank you Ligonier. It is sad that so many persons deny this important doctrine. Greetings from Cameroon.

[@jessyjonas4988]

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty Early in the morning Our song shall rise to Thee Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty God in three persons Blessed Trinity! Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide Thee Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see Only Thou art holy There is none beside Thee Perfect in power, in love and purity Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty All Thy works shall praise Thy name In earth and sky and sea Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty God in three persons Blessed Trinity Oh God in three persons Blessed Trinity!

[@reynaldodavid2913Jo]

@jessyjonas4988, Your praise is a blasphemy, Trinity is of the devil...

[@CommonSenseChristianityT]

Not biblical, and nobody ever gives hymn to a triune God in the Bible, you just made all of that up

[@jessyjonas4988]

@@CommonSenseChristianityT “yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live” 1 Corinthians 8:6 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3:17

[@reynaldodavid2913Jo]

@@jessyjonas4988, Now explain to us how those verses you gave teaches that God has 3 persons?

[@jessyjonas4988]

@@reynaldodavid2913Jo you are us You are made in the image of God God said “ come LET US make man

[@jessyjonas4988]

“But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba,Father.”” Galatians

[@juanmaldonado8754]

Amazing and we do not deserve this……thank you Lord for your mercy and grace!!!!!

[@suzieaguilar397]

That is true 😊 none of us deserve his mercy and grace. It all is a gift beginning when we first believed and now not under condemnation. John5. Thank and praise you dear Lord Jesus.

[@reynaldodavid2913Jo]

@jessyjonas4988, what you posted did not prove that Trinity is biblical...

[@jessyjonas4988]

@@reynaldodavid2913Jo God knows who he is we only need to believe in Him

[@tonbears]

Amen ❤

[@mikepeters4916]

I have faith and believe the words of the Bible to be accurate and true. I do not need man, with his finite intelligence to try and prove it or disprove it, the Bible and faith is enough for myself.

[@Mr.Bones777]

Basil Rathbone was not the sherif of Nottingham, he was Guy of Gisbourne. I love that movie 😊 I hated to see Basil in that role as a bad guy, when he was so good at Sherlock Holmes

[@jessyjonas4988]

Abba Father “Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2

[@Matrixqc777]

*"In all worlds the Triune God has revealed Himself as Father, Son and Holy Ghost, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the SUBSTANCES of the same."*

[@Matrixqc777]

*"God is eternal and self-existent. He creates beings with immortality but God alone possesses eternity."*

[@Roy-xt5yw]

Amen

[@medicalmisinformation]

So is personhood a non-essential characteristic of God?

[@jefb2361]

A lesson in word etymology & anecdotes. I'm a huge fan of Dr Sproule nonetheless.

[@kengreene5212]

👍👍👍

[@francescaknapp]

❤

[@stuartjohnson5686]

Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. "By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects.. It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published." -- Dr. Benjamin Rush (signed the Declaration of Independence, surgeon general of the Continental Army, professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania, leader in getting Pennsylvania to ratify the Constitution) He has never heard the song "My Own Grandpa"? Which claims because a man married a widow who had a daughter who marrieed his widower father makes his wife is mother-in-law and therefor make him his own grandpa. Yes its a silly song that gets even more absurd when both men have children with their new wives. Greek for actor is hypokrites from which we get the English word hypocrite. One who pretends to me someone they are not.

[@skcoll3086]

The concept of the trinity is real. The concept of subsistence with respect to the concept of essence seems difficult to understand and appears contradictory. But it is absolutely contradictory for this philosophy professor. For someone who believes in Jesus, the concept of the trinity makes a lot of sense.

[@claudiozanella256]

Jesus says "He who has seen me has seen THE FATHER", "He who sees me SEES HIM who sent me.". What if.... JESUS HAD BEEN THE FATHER? Consequences: 1. if Jesus had been the Father, then "Son" surely means that He DERIVES from God, He is not an actual Son. 2. if Jesus had been the Father, then the Father cannot be here, i.e. Jesus must be ALONE, 3. this means that the Father is only IN THE PAST so that nobody could ever see Him ("nobody has seen God at any time" "The world has not known you") 4. if Jesus is ALONE, this means that He is the ONLY KING of heaven, not the Father 5. since everything in the world happens as the Father were here, this means that the Father is ABLE to be active here even from that past temporal dimension ! 6. from point 5. you can say that the Father is VIRTUALLY PRESENT here with his talks and actions but He is actually ABSENT. "Present but absent", you could say that God is "like a spirit" here ( He is the "Spirit of God" aka "Holy Spirit"). 7. is Jesus almighty? What is the purpose of that? All almighty actions can be performed by the Father who is in the past. Jesus may have the freedom to be like a normal man, with no power at all. This is indeed the difference between Father and Son ("the Father is greater than I"). 8. How may Gods are there? Jesus is NOT the almighty God, He is like a normal person. Yet He is not distinct from Him "I am in the Father and the Father in me" because Jesus WAS that almighty God. In other words They are not the SAME ONE God, yet They are not "TWO distinct Gods". You can say that God is more than one and less than two.

[@stevenwebb6253]

If Jesus is God (or equal to God the father), why did he call our God and Father his God and Father at John 20:17?

[@wallysmet5076]

Because God has a Son; and Jesus is also Man

[@davidwesterhoff4406]

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him and without Him nothing was made that was made. Same Gospel - Father and Son together through all eternity

[@DogSoldier1948]

This can definitely be a confusing issue. It all goes back to the "mystery" of the Trinity. When Jesus was on the cross, He quoted Psalm 22 (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34). This was a psalm of David, but it was a Messianic prophecy as well. The entire psalm contains remarkable predictions by David concerning the coming Messiah. So, one of the reasons He called God "my God" was to fulfill the prophecy of the psalm.

[@stevenwebb6253]

@@davidwesterhoff4406 Did you know that in John 1:1-3, there are different Greek words for both Gods mentioned? The Word, Jesus, (Λόγος or Logos), was with God (Θεόν, or Theon). The Word was God (Θεὸς, or Theos). He, Jesus, was in the beginning with God (Θεόν, Theon). Even though these are different cases of the same word, they are nevertheless differentiated. Satan was also called θεὸς, or Theos at 2 Corinthians 4:4. Is Satan also God? Don’t know Greek? Neither do I. Let’s break this down a little further shall we? In the beginning was the word (Jesus, Son of God), and the word (Jesus, Son of God) was with God (Almighty God, God the Father), and the word (Jesus, Son of God) was God (Almighty God, God the Father)? No matter how you put it, it doesn’t make sense!! What does make sense is that Jesus, being in the beginning with God (Genesis 1:26, John 1:1), in fact being God’s very first creation (Colossians 1:15, Proverbs 8:22, Revelation 3:14), actually calls God his God and worships God the Father. (Revelation 3:12, John 20:17)

[@stevenwebb6253]

@@DogSoldier1948 It looks like your god Jesus is in subjection to my God, Jehovah. 1 Corinthians 15:27,28 27 For God “subjected all things under his feet.” But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’ it is evident that this does not include the One who subjected all things to him. 28 But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone.”

[@Andy-u9x]

what does God have multiple personality disorder three in one person NO... God is balanced PERFECTLY balanced in himself God is the most balanced being that IS! HIMSELF HIS WORD AND HIS WILL.... The Father the Son and the Holy Spirit is all God ALMIGHTY!... And Yeshua answered him, the first of all the commandments is this, HEAR O ISRAEL THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD! Mark: 12: 29.... why do people just gloss over this....

[@frankc-k3q]

Monotheistic Christian 😀 The most loving God; “let US make man in our image”

[@euston2216]

Several times the speaker applied singular personal pronouns to a being - "God" - whom the speaker does not believe is a singular person. That's called _confusion._ Of which God - the one _true_ God - is not the author. The bible truth is that the one true God is unipersonal, and HIS name is revealed to be the name which is above _every_ name: *JESUS.*

[@sonoshock]

This teaching and teacher is so false that he doesn’t realize he is in idolatry. God is one and his name is Jesus Christ

[@reynaldodavid2913Jo]

Trinity is not a paradox, it is the devil's doctrine...