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The Trinity: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Trinity is one of the most essential doctrines of the Christian faith, as it reveals a magnificent truth about God—that he is one God eternally existing as three distinct persons. While Christians often struggle to find the right words to describe the union of Father, Son, and Spirit, the Bible gives clarity concerning the triune God’s activity in nature (creation), grace (redemption), and...

person of the Son: the Son is the Word of God, the image of the invisible God, the radiance of the Father’s glory. Relations of origin are relations of “from-ness.” In similar fashion, the Bible illustrates the Spirit’s relation to the Father and the Son as a relation of origin. Particularly instructive are illustrations that associate the Holy Spirit with water. The Spirit is “poured” out by the Father (Rom. 5:5) and by the Son (Acts 2:33). He is the element with which Jesus baptizes his disciples
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