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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...

Father possesses the identically same nature as does the Son and the Holy Spirit. An orthodox definition of the Trinity, taking from Augustine’s and other church fathers’ insights, then, would assert the following: The doctrine of the Trinity affirms that God’s whole and undivided essence belongs equally, eternally, simultaneously, and fully to each of the three distinct Persons of the Godhead. Now think what this is claiming. It affirms that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit each possesses the divine