![]() And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. Īnother verse used to support the Deity of Christ is This verse is also used to support the Deity of Christ. This is because Counselor is a title for the Holy Spirit (John 14:26), the Trinity is God, Father is a title for God the Father, and Prince of Peace is a title for Jesus. The Messiah is called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Some see this verse as meaning the Messiah will represent the Trinity on earth. One of these is the prophecy about the Messiah in Isaiah 9. ![]() The Old Testament has been interpreted as referring to the Trinity in many places. Medieval rabbis identified the Holy Spirit as the Shekhinah, which is the living throne, or presence, or breath of God, distinct from - and created - by God. God does not have a son, or equals, or parts - in actuality. Son of God īased on the analogy of divine fatherhood, the "son of God" in Judaism is an analogy for the people of Israel ("my son Israel") and the angels ("sons of God"), because they are holy like, yet distinct from and created by, the Holy One of Israel. Jewish background The Father Īccording to the Jewish Encyclopedia, God is figuratively called Israel's Father at times, and Husband or Lover at other times, using sexual and familial terms to analogically describe God's love for Israel (God's love for Israel is like a father's love for his son, a husband's love for his wife, or a lover for his beloved). Though the Trinity is mainly a Christian concept, Judaism has had parallel views, especially among writings from the kabbalah tradition. The doctrine of the Trinity was first formulated among the early Christians and fathers of the Church as they attempted to understand the relationship between Jesus and God in their scriptural documents and prior traditions. While the developed doctrine of the Trinity is not explicit in the books that constitute the New Testament, the New Testament possesses a triadic understanding of God and contains a number of Trinitarian formulas. Christian nontrinitarian positions include Unitarianism, Binitarianism and Modalism. This doctrine is called Trinitarianism and its adherents are called Trinitarians, while its opponents are called antitrinitarians or nontrinitarians. Thus, the entire process of creation and grace is viewed as a single shared action of the three divine persons, in which each person manifests the attributes unique to them in the Trinity, thereby proving that everything comes "from the Father," "through the Son," and "in the Holy Spirit." This expresses at once their distinction and their indissoluble unity. In this context, the three persons define who God is, while the one essence defines what God is. The Christian doctrine of the Trinity ( Latin: Trinitas, lit.'triad', from Latin: trinus 'threefold') is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son ( Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons sharing one homoousion (essence) "each is God, complete and whole." As the Fourth Lateran Council declared, it is the Father who begets, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds.
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