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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Relationships, Roles, and Relevance is unavailable, but you can change that!

God cares that we know who he is, and he longs for us to understand him better. Through his Word he revealed his triune nature, though many avoid in-depth study of this doctrine because it is so deep and mysterious. But God's revelation of himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit affects how he relates to us, how he made us, and who he is eternally. The doctrine of the Trinity is essential...

Nazareth. So, the one God and Father of all was now manifested as the Son and not the Father, whereas before the incarnation, he had always subsisted in the mode of being the Father. Then, after the resurrection and ascension of Christ, the one God came in the “mode” of the Holy Spirit, so that during this time when the Holy Spirit is present and at work, God subsists as the Holy Spirit and not as the Father or as the Son. This view, called “modalism,” proposed then that while the Father is fully God,