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gods are somehow one God, or that three persons are somehow one person. Rather, the doctrine states that there are three persons in the one God. Another way to put it: God is tri-personal. Often Christians will offer inadequate analogies of the Trinity in order to explicate this doctrine.
Without vital interest in the revealed names of God, therefore, no theology can claim to be authentically biblical; biblical theology and lively interest in God’s names stand or fall together (p. 172, first emphasis his; second emphasis mine). We will learn shortly that God gives himself many names, but the Bible also talks about the
Feet Washing is practiced and recognized as an ordinance in our Church because Christ, by His example, showed that humility characterized greatness in the Kingdom of God, and that service, rendered to others gave evidence that humility, motivated by love, exists.
A doctrine of God that attempts to combine the strenghts of classical theism with those of classical pantheism. The term is particularly associated with the work of Charles Hartshorne (Elwell, 885).
There are limits drawn about our lives by God's creative ordinance which we cannot trespass and within which, therefore, God's order prevails in spite of our sin. There are, however, certain areas of God's creation where we can go out of bounds, but which limits we know ought not be transgressed.
In the New Testament, God’s name is manifested most clearly in Jesus Christ. He is called “the Word” (John 1:1), and Jesus Himself makes the claim that He has revealed the name of God (John 17:6). God’s name is His promise to dwell with His people.
This doctrine teaches that God exists in three persons who share the same essence or being. What this means is that God exists in the distinct and co-equal persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but they share a fully divine essence or being, such as uncreatedness, eternality, simplicity (non-composite or indivisible), immutability
