A. Three persons exist in the one God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are one God, the same in substance, and equal in power and glory.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness (Gen. 1:26)
And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. (Gen. 3:22)
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” (Gen. 11:7)
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”(Isaiah 6:3,8)
And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. (Rev. 4:8)
Thoughts: Even Old Testament scripture indicates plurality in the one God. if there is no plurality in the godhead, then why were the words "us" used of divinity? Some say it is God speaking to the angelic court around Him- but the angels are not made in the image of God. Some say it is a kind of majestic royal "we." But there have been believers through the centuries who have seen the us as an indication of a multi-faceted plurality in the essence of God. Such things hint at the Trinity.
This same plurality is hinted as a three fold plurality in Isaiah 6 ("holy, holy, holy"), which is made even clearer in Revelation 4:8. Revelation 4:8 also hints that time itself points to the trinity- "who was, is, and is to come." Time is one, yet time is also clearly past, present, and future.
This points out that God is not lonely but may exist in Himself. He made us not because He had to have company, but out of sheer grace and love. In gratitude to God's love that made us, we should respond in love.
Prayer: Help me to respond to your love with my love to you and to others.
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