CHAPTER TWO

CONCERNING THE DIVINE TRINITY

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Scripture Reading: Gen. 1:1-2, 26; Matt. 3:16-17; John 14:9-10; 2 Cor. 3:17; John 8:16; Matt. 27:46

OUTLINE

3. Four crucial points concerning the Divine Trinity:
   1. The coexistence of the three:
      1. In the record of the Old Testament, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit being coexistent.
      2. In the record of the four Gospels, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit being coexistent.
      3. In the record of the Epistles, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit being coexistent.
      4. The three-the Father, the Son, and the Spirit-being eternal.
   2. The coinherence of the three.
   3. The essential Trinity:
      1. The Holy Spirit as the essence of the conception of the Lord Jesus.
      2. The Son coming from and with the Father, and the Father being always with the Son.
      3. The Father being with the Son in the Son’s crucifixion.
   4. The economical Trinity.