The term trinity is used to denote the doctrine used in the Christian faith which is interpreted as symbolizing that God is unified in his existence in three defined persons which is God the father , God the son and God the holy spirit (Hodgson, Juugel, Kelly, Presitge, Wainwright, 2016). The essence of understanding the Trinity is understanding that God is three persons, each person is divine, and that there is only one God (Johnson, 2014, 174-175). Theologians might argue that the term persons may not be the appropriate term in reference to the trinity just because the persons can be seen as actually separated in the physical (Gordon, 2015, 485). However, in reference to God there are not three different beings or entities, but in the trinity the term father comes first because God is the ungenerated creator who then entered the world in physical form which is generated (Geis, 2013, 23). The father creates the son who is sent redeems and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the father (Hill, 2013, 471). The importance of the father and son metaphor in the creeds is a fitting introduction to the ways in which the New Testament speaks of God (Geis, 2013, 24-25). What it means to call God “Father” is revealed in the concrete ways in which the metaphor is used to speak of Jesus, “the Son”. A full appreciation of the language requires not only attention to the particularities of the various writings of the New Testament (Geis, 26). The two New Testament scriptures that help demonstrate the existence of God as a Trinity of persons are 1 Corinthians 12:4-6 and 1 Peter 1:2. 1 Corinthians 12:4-6 KJV. The first Scripture states: “Now there are diversities of gifts, but one Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God who works everything in everyone." This scripture helps justify the existence of God as a Trinity of persons because it reveals the different ways and peculiarities of God's being. On the other hand, there still remains only one God and the only God who exists and will ever exist. When we think of gifts, what comes to mind is a dispensation that can only be given by the Holy Spirit. As Christians we obtain these spiritual gifts through supernatural grace and they are given to us by a supernatural God so that every Christian is able to fulfill the mission given to him by God. So, in relation to understanding what gifts the Scriptures might describe, there it is the understanding that because God is the trinity, there is an understanding that although there are different parts that make up God, which relates to how the church contains different gifts that makes up a church that, like God, consists of
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