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“The Deep Things of God”
Matthew 28:16-20; 3:1-3; 9; 11; 16-17; John 3:16-18
Helpful definitions:
Progressive revelation – The Bible is a book revealed over time, with God disclosing new information and expanding on older information as he revealed it.
Doctrine – Summary statements of biblical truth synthesized from the totality of relevant biblical data.
Monotheism – The belief that there is only one God.
Polytheism – The belief that there are many gods.
Trinitarian Monotheism – Yahweh, the one true God who reveals himself in the Holy Bible, eternally exists as three distinct, equal, fully divine persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – and these three persons perfectly and indivisibly share one divine being. Thus, Yahweh is one God in three persons, a Holy Trinity.
Point 1: Yahweh is one.
Point 2: Yahweh is also three.
Point 3: The Church developed terms to help describe theology.
Point 4: The Trinity is the heart of Christianity.