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It Matters What You Believe | The Trinity | How can Jesus be 100% God and 100% man?

Visit Us: https://OWCC.Church Pastor Dustin Woolam takes on the importance of understanding what you believe in this first of a series: The Trinity Understanding the Mystery of the Trinity: Shadows of the Divine In this message, he explores the complex and vital doctrine of the Trinity, acknowledging from the start that it is often "easier to say what you can’t say than to say what you can". Drawing from both the Old and New Testaments, he examines why this belief is core to the Christian faith and how it distinguishes Christianity from every other religion. What You’ll Learn: • The Shadow Analogy: Why our attempts to describe God are like two-dimensional shadows of three-dimensional objects—or even a Tesseract, which is a three-dimensional shadow of a four-dimensional cube. We are not God, and therefore, we are not expected to fully comprehend His infinite nature. • Defining the Trinity: He breaks down the essential distinction that God is one God in three persons, not "three people" or "three parts". He looks at the Greek in Matthew 28:19, which commands baptism in the singular "name" of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. • Avoiding Heresy: He discusses historical errors like Modalism (God wearing different "masks") and Arianism (the belief that Jesus was a created being). The Bible teaches there was never a time when the Son or the Spirit did not exist. • Old Testament Hints: From Zechariah to Isaiah, he uncovers "hints of the Trinity" where the Lord sends the Lord, revealing a plurality within the one true God long before the New Testament was written. • The Hypostatic Union: A look at how Jesus is 100% God and 100% human simultaneously, never ceasing to be divine even while taking on physical flesh. Key Historical Creeds Mentioned: • The Nicene Creed: On Jesus being "eternally begotten". • The Athanasian Creed: On worshiping "one God in Trinity and Trinity in unity". Ultimately, the Trinity reminds us that we worship a God who is beyond human comprehension. While the concept is not "easy," the simple truth remains: we worship one God in Trinity. "If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world." — Athanasius -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analogy for Reflection: To help grasp how something can be one yet distinct, consider the shadow of your hand. The shadow is a real representation, but it lacks the depth and dimension of the actual hand. In the same way, our language and theological terms are merely shadows—limited, lower-dimensional tools used to describe the majestic, multi-dimensional reality of the living God. #trinity #christiantheology #biblestudy #jesusisgod #HolySpirit #HypostaticUnion #nicenecreed #AthanasianCreed #apologetics #churchhistory #christianfaith