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Our Unique Three-In-One God — 5 Comments

1. Dr. Davidson was the principal contributor of the 2012 Adult Bible Study Guide on Glimpses of Our God. If you'll click on the link, you'll see it's a great set of lessons that you may want to review. While the lessons cover a variety of "glimpses of God," the very first lesson is on "The Triune God."

   At the beginning of this video, Jo Ann Davidson says, "God isn't honored by lazy thinking about Him." That said, we may need to make a serious effort to understand the subject better, as presented in whole series of videos in the Trinity Project by the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary. Considering that the videos are made by seminary professors, the subject of the Trinity is well covered in the series. You'll find some videos will require more effort to follow than others, but if you're interested in the subject, you will surely be blessed by checking out some of the other videos as well.

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2. Thank-you Inge. I have come up against people inside and outside the Sevent-day-Adventist church who have a problem with the Trinity in one form or another in the last 7 months. Dr Davidson is a God send. I believe she has it right as she says just because there are mysteries that we will be studying throughout eternity does not mean we should not dig into the word of God letting the Holy Spirit guide us into truth. Psalms 48:14. I am going to finish Dr. Davidson's lecture on the Trinity. I believe in 1 Peter 3:15. Some people are seeking with their conviction of no Trinity. I believe it is the will of our Father in Heaven for us to give an account of our belief, with Manuka honey flowing through our veins. Dr Davidson may or may not use the following, text I shall see.
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   Proverbs 29:18 MSG‬
   [18] If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.

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3. Most things on the Trinity might have been said. As we are studying the gospel of John, I discovered that the Holy Spirit not only is sent by the Father and by the Son --- three persons being involved --- but this sendig is revealed in a three-united action.

   Jesus will ask his Father, and he will give to the disciples another comforter to be with them for ever. (John 14:16) Thus, in union with the Father, Jesus is sending the Holy Spirit to the disciples. (John 16:7) Again: Jesus will send the Holy Spirit from the Father, the spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father to bear witness of Jesus. (John 15:26)

   There is a union between the Father and the Son to send the Spirit, and the Spirit is interwoven within that unity of action in agreement to be sent.

   The Holy Spirit in the gospel of John is called "Paraklaetos" (mostly translated "Comforter"). Paraklaetos in the Septuagint is the designation of intellectual personalities.

   The three friends of Job came to comfort him. (Iob 2:11) The text uses the verb "parakalesai" from the object "Paraklaetos". It goes without saying that these three frieds are intellectual persons, as they are delivering long discourses in interaction with Job. As they are concluding that his misery is the result of some kind of evil, Job was supposed to have done, he answered: "I have heared many such things; bad comforters are all of you." (Job 16:2) "Parakaetores kakoon pantes" --- using the very terminology the gospel of John is using in personal designation of the Holy Spirit.

   With this philological background in mind, the gospel of John is designating actions to the Holy Spirit: only usable to intellectual beings, to intellectual persons --- the Holy Spirit as intellectual Person. (John 16:8-11.13-14)

   God designates himself as such in the image of a mother comforting her child: "Even as a mother comforts her child, so will I also comfort you." (Isaiah 66:13) The text is using the verb "parakalesai" twice.

   The gospel of John, designating the Holy Spirit as "Paraklaetos", is including the Holy Spirit in a Trinity and Unity of action of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

   This could be compared with the baptismal formula in the Gospel of Matthew uniting the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit" in the One Name: Unity in diversity and diversity in unity.(Matthew 28:19) The proper answer and reaction to this divine revelation is adoration, reverence and prayer.

   Winfried Stolpmann

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   • Winfried, I have no problem with the intent of your comment but just want to clear one issue. The similarity between the language used in Job with that of John is probably a stretch on philological grounds. Job was written in Hebrew and later (2nd century BCE) translated into Koine Greek in what we know as the Septuagint. The philological comparison makes sense when we compare the Septuagint version of Job with John.

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4. Thank you, Sister Ingle, for this very important video.

   I enjoyed it very much. I learned from it and was reminded of the importance of knowing (and understanding) our Triune God(one God). More of us need to listen to this video, to get a refreshing from the Lord.

   God's blessing to All in this Holiday Season!!
   Jesus is the Reason for the Season!!

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