We started John today and fell into a discussion of the Trinity. It is said that Tertullian was the first to use the word to describe the three aspects of God around 165-220 AD. It is also said that Theophilus of Antioch was the first; in any case it was over 100 years after Christ was crucified.
John essentially opens with Christ existing in the beginning with God and he was God which suggests they are the same yet later John quotes Jesus in John 14:28 as saying that “…the Father is greater than I.” and in 14:24“…what I am telling you is from the Father who sent me.” What makes it difficult for humans to understand is that God is a spirit, a spirit who could be one with Jesus; God isn’t a person with a long white beard and a big robe; I personally can’t imagine a spirit, let alone one that has been in the universe forever so I take it on faith that he and Christ always existed and that Christ, who is part of God, took on a human form to die for our sins and now they are one again. Others in our group had a different view.
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