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To: Rameumptom; Gamecock; topcat54; xzins; P-Marlowe; 1000 silverlings; wmfights
It's fairly easy to take a snippet of work here and there and label it according to one's presuppositions.

In truth, the doctrine of the Trinity is revealed on nearly every page of the New Testament (concealed yet still present in the OT) for those with ears to hear and eyes to see. To deny the Trinity is to deny Christianity.

"It would seem clear that we must recognize in the Old Testament doctrine of the relation of God to His revelation by the creative Word and the Spirit, at least the germ of the distinctions in the Godhead afterward fully made known in the Christian revelation. And we can scarcely stop there. After all is said, in the light of the later revelation, the Trinitarian interpretation remains the most natural one of the phenomena which the older writers frankly interpreted as intimations of the Trinity; especially of those connected with the descriptions of the Angel of Jehovah no doubt, but also even of such a form of expression as meets us in the "Let us make man in our image" of Gen. 1:26, for surely verse 27: "And God created man in his own image," does not encourage us to take the preceding verse as announcing that man was to be created in the image of the angels. This is not an illegitimate reading of New Testament ideas back into the text of the Old Testament; it is only reading the text of the Old Testament under the illumination of the New Testament revelation. The Old Testament may be likened to a chamber richly furnished but dimly lighted; the introduction of light brings into it nothing which was not in it before; but it brings out into clearer view much of what is in it but was only dimly or even not at all perceived before. The mystery of the Trinity is not revealed in the Old Testament; but the mystery of the Trinity underlies the Old Testament revelation, and here and there almost comes into view. Thus the Old Testament revelation of God is not corrected by the fuller revelation which follows it, but only perfected, extended and enlarged." -- B.B. Warfield from "The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity"

THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY
by B.B. Warfield

And...

THE BIBLE'S TEACHING ABOUT THE TRINITY
by James Montgomery Boice

And...

CHAPTER TWO
(Westminster Confession of Faith)
Of God and the Holy Trinity
by A.A. Hodge

And...

THE TRINITY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
by Peter Wise

Or as John Calvin's rightly noted distinction...

"God points Himself out by another special note also, by which He may be more particularly defined: for He so predicates unity of Himself that He propones Himself to be considered distinctively in three Persons; and unless we hold to these there is nothing but a bare and empty name of God, by no means the true God, floating in our brain."

242 posted on 07/06/2007 3:07:19 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Rameumptom; Gamecock; topcat54; xzins; P-Marlowe; 1000 silverlings; wmfights
It's fairly easy to take a snippet of work here and there and label it according to one's presuppositions. In truth, the doctrine of the Trinity is revealed on nearly every page of the New Testament (concealed yet still present in the OT) for those with ears to hear and eyes to see. To deny the Trinity is to deny Christianity.

Well said Doc. It is all about the person of Christ and the nature of God. It IS revealed on every page of scripture because He IS the Word and all of the Word is about revealing WHO God is (and who we are in comparison). He is God, we are not. He always was and always will be. There is none like Him. We are like grass that withers and fades. He is a triune God. We cannot fully understand that, but we must believe that by faith. And that is not of ourselves. Satan's fall was due to his pride in desiring to be like the Most High was that he wanted to be like God. (note it was not like all of the "most highs"). Why then should man be honored and exalted and be made "like a god" for doing the same thing?

It just doesn't make sense, does it? It makes God out to be a liar.

247 posted on 07/06/2007 3:31:25 PM PDT by lupie
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