The Most Holy Trinity: A Showcase of God’s Omnipotence, Omnipresence and Omniscience
Today, Sunday, May 30, 2021, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. As Christians, we profess our fundamental belief in the existence, not of three gods, but of One God in Three Persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – consubstantial, co-eternal, and co-equal in everyt hi ng.
From Deuteronomy 6:4 the Jews recite, “Hear, O Israel. The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.” And in the
first of the Ten Commandments, in Exodus 20:2 we read, “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall not have other gods beside me.” Clearly, then, there is only one God.
This One God, however, has revealed himself in other parts of the Scripture, as existing in Three Persons. Right in the creation story we are told, “Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness’” (Genesis 1:26a). Then in the following verse we read, “God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). Notice the shift from first person plural in verse 26 when God was talking to himself as a Trinity, to third person singular in verse 27, where the creation of mankind was attributed to a single God.
In the baptism of Jesus, we see another direct interaction of the Three Persons in the Holy Trinity. ”After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove coming upon him. And a voice came from the heavens, saying, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased’”(Matthew 3:16-17). The same Three Persons were mentioned in the call for our baptism and in the Great Commission, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of age” (Matthew 28:19-20).
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