The presentation of the trinity as a triad in scripture
The Godhead is consistently presented in the New Testament as consisting of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. While comparatively little is explicitly stated concerning the Personhood of the Holy Spirit(though I have demonstrated from scripture elsewhere that there is more than enough explicitly stated about both His Personhood and Deity to render excuseless anyone who would reduce him to a mere manifestation of God's power) the consistent presentation of the Holy Spirit as one of the Persons of the Trinity is alone more than sufficient to demonstrate both his Deity as an entity worthy of being worshiped and His Personhood as an object of worship eternally distinct from the Father and the Son:
Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:34; also Luke 1:35; 3:21-22 par.; 4:1-12; John 4:10-25; 7:37-39; 14-16; 20:21-22; Acts 1:4-8; 2:33, 38-39; 5:3-4, 9, 30-32; 7:55-56; 10:36-38, 44-48; 11:15-18; 15:8-11; 20:38; 28:25-31; Rom. 1:1-4; 5:5-10; 8:2-4, 9-11, 14-17; 1 Cor. 6:11; 12:4-6, 11-12, 18; 2 Cor. 1:19-22; 3:6-8, 14-18; Gal. 3:8-14; 4:4-7; Eph. 1:3-17; 2:18, 21-22; 3:14-19; 4:4-6, 29-32; 5:18-20; Phil. 3:3; 1 Thess. 1:3-6; 2 Thess. 2:13-14; Tit. 3:4-6; Heb. 2:3-4; 9:14; 10:28-31; 1 Pet. 1:2; 1 John 3:21-24; 4:13-14; Jude 20-21; Rev. 2:18, 27-29
Daniel Calder,
St. Petersburg Christianity Examiner
Daniel Calder, an evangelical Christian finishing up a BA in Philosophy and minor in Latin in St. Petersburg. He is a former treasurer of USF's Philosophy Organization, and campus ministry, Grace on Campus, and former president of USF's Christian Philosopher's Society. He intends to complete a...
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