Bible Lesson 3
Who Is God?
He is three persons in one God.
Though the Bible clearly presents that God is one, we are also clearly shown that God is three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. How can this be? People have used a variety of images to try to clarify how God can be three in one. One egg has shell, yolk and white. One clover has three leaves. And so on.
Are these images helpful? Perhaps, but only to get us started. If our understanding of God as Three-and-one only gets us picturing eggs and clovers, it will not inspire us to love and worship. As Michael Reeves says, “How could the eggishness of God ever be more than a weird curiosity? I am never going to fall down in awe or find my heart drawn to a God so ridiculous.”
The solution, then, is not to simplify God into quaint comparisons, but rather to allow ourselves to be lost in wonder at the fact that God is wholly beyond our understanding. And as we seek God through scripture and prayer, let us get to know each of his persons, and their relationships to each other, and their oneness, and let us respond with love and admiration!
Trinity, by Sandro Boticelli. Early Renaissance.
An *asterisk indicates that the word has a special note. Click on it to see the note.
Dios es tres personas en un Dios
Juan 14
(25) »Les digo esto mientras estoy con ustedes. (26) Pero el Consejero, el Espíritu Santo que el Padre enviará en mi nombre, les enseñará y recordará todo lo que les dije.
(27) »Les dejo la paz. Es mi propia paz la que les doy, pero no se la doy como la da el mundo. No se preocupen ni tengan miedo. (28) Me escucharon decir que me voy y que volveré a ustedes. Si de verdad me amaran, se habrían alegrado de que regreso al Padre, pues él es más importante que yo.
II Corintios 13:14
Que la gracia del Señor Jesucristo, el amor de Dios y la comunión del Espíritu Santo sean con todos ustedes.
Translation: PDT
God is three persons in one God
John 14
“I tell you this while I am with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name, will teach you and remind you of all that I told you.
“I give you peace. It is my own peace that I give you, but I don’t give it like that of the world. Do not worry nor have fear. You heard me say that I am going and that I will return to you all. If in truth you loved me, you would have rejoiced that I go to the Father, since He is more important than I.”
II Corinthians 13:14
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
1. Listen to the audio as you read along with the Spanish on the left.
2. Open the English translation, and read the two side-by-side, making sure you understand the Spanish.
3. Close the English, and listen to the audio again, reading along in Spanish.
4. Close the Spanish, and listen once more. Maybe shut your eyes, and just try to understand as much as you can.