The Holy Trinity The mystery of the Trinity consists in this, that God being numerically and individually one, exists in three Persons, or, in other words, that the divine essence, which is one and the same in the strictest and most absolute sense, exists in three Persons really distinct from each other, and yet each really identical with the same divine essence. The Father is unbegotten, the Son begotten, the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son as from one principle. Each Person is really distinct from the other, each is the true, eternal God, and yet there is only one God. We can understand how three individual men are distinct from each other and yet possess humanity in common. The unity of the three divine Persons is altogether different. When we speak of them as one God, we mean not only that each is God, but that each is one and the same God. This is the mystery of the Trinity, incomprehensible to any created intelligence. The mystery of the Triune God is foreshadowed but not clearly revealed in the Old Testament (Gen. 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Num. 6:23-26; Is. 6:1-9; etc.). It is only in the New Testament that the mystery of the Triune God (Trinity) is explicitly proclaimed (Matt. 3:16; 10:20; 17:5; 28:19; Luke 4:18; John 3:35; 15:26; 2 Cor. 13:13; 1 John 5:7; etc.). The belief of the Holy Trinity was taught by Jesus Christ Himself as witnessed by His Apostles in their writings - Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 10:19-20; Luke 4:18-19; John 15:26-27; 2 Cor 13:14. There were other subsequent Church documents before this doctrine of Holy Trinity became a dogma in the Church Council at Nicea I at 325 A.D. The Trinity Formula, that is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit got its order and form, clearly associating the Son of the formula with the Christian Logos, and the Spirit with the prophetic power believed to emerge from God (the Father).
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