Question 9. How many persons are there in the Godhead?

 

Question 9. How many persons are there in the Godhead?


Answer. There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three persons are the only true and eternal God, one in substance, equal in power and glory, but differing only in their personal character.

 

In today's church community, believers call God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit based on the theory of the Trinity. However, nowhere in the Bible does it say God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ calls God the Father, and he was the Son of God. And the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Jehovah in the Old Testament, and the Spirit of Jesus (or the Spirit of Christ) in the New Testament.

Therefore, there is no divinity in God. We can only say that the Father, Jesus Christ, and the saints are one in the Holy Spirit. This speaks of unity, not of distinction. John 17:11 “I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep in your name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, just as we are one.”

The Holy Spirit comes from God, so the attribute of light is one, but it is not God itself. In the New Testament era, when God sends the Holy Spirit to Jesus Christ, Jesus gives the Holy Spirit to his disciples. The Holy Spirit is the Word, and it is like the light of life. John 15:26, “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.”

 

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