This week on Westminster around the Web we’ll focus on the doctrine of Trinity. Let’s see what is being blogged concerning this great doctrine:
The Da Vinci Code is popular and now being made into a big Hollywood movie. One of the key claims of the The Da Vinci Code is that the doctrine of the Trinity and the deity of Christ was a creation of Constantine. Here, James White (who wrote a terrific book, The Forgotten Trinity) – is currently doing a multi-part review of the Da Vinci Code. James White translates a sermon preached approximately 145 years prior to Nicea, and 130 years prior to Constantine’s battle where he allegedly saw the sign of the cross in the sky and the phrase, “in this sign, conquer”. This sermon was preached on Passover around 180 A.D. by Melito, bishop of Sardis.
And so he was lifted up upon a tree and an inscription was attached indicating who was being killed. Who was it? It is a grievous thing to tell, but a most fearful thing to refrain from telling. But listen, as you tremble before him on whose account the earth trembled!
He who hung the earth in place is hanged.
He who fixed the heavens in place is fixed in place.
He who made all things fast is made fast on a tree.
The Sovereign is insulted.
God is murdered.
The King of Israel is destroyed by an Israelite hand.
This is the One who made the heavens and the earth,
and formed mankind in the beginning,
The One proclaimed by the Law and the Prophets,
The One enfleshed in a virgin,
The One hanged on a tree,
The One buried in the earth,
The One raised from the dead and who went up into the heights of heaven,
The One sitting at the right hand of the Father,
The One having all authority to judge and save,
Through Whom the Father made the things which exist from the beginning of time.
This One is “the Alpha and the Omega,”
This One is “the beginning and the end”
—the beginning indescribable and the end incomprehensible.
This One is the Christ.
This One is the King.
This One is Jesus.
This One is the Leader.
This One is the Lord.
This One is the One who rose from the dead.
This One is the One sitting on the right hand of the Father.
He bears the Father and is borne by the Father.
“To him be the glory and the power forever. Amen.”
As James White says, “…rejoice, as I rejoice, at the thought of this ancient believer and the fact that he reveled in the truth about the God-man Jesus Christ just as we do today! Oh that we had more preaching like this in our land today!”
Greg Koukl over at Stand to Reason writes Does the Trinity Make Sense? What I like is a comment on the Stand to Reason Blog – here a commenter says:
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My theology prof always said (quoting someone else) “The one who denies the Trinity is in danger of losing his soul, but the one who tries to understand the Trinity is in danger of losing his mind.”
Lastly, (why is it that I need to do things in three’s?) – a wonderful quote by Spurgeon – read it Three times and Three times give thanks for the Trinity:
A gospel without a Trinity! it is a pyramid built upside down on its apex. A gospel without the Trinity! it is a rope of sand that cannot hold together. A gospel without a Trinity! then, indeed, Satan can overturn it. But, give me a gospel with the Trinity, and the might of hell cannot prevail against it; no man could any more overthrow it than a bubble could split a rock, or a feather break a mountain in half. Get the thought of the three persons, and you have the essence of all divinity. Only know the Father, and know the Son, and know the Holy Spirit to be one, and all things will appear clear. This is the golden key to the secrets of nature, and he who understands this, will soon understand as much as mortals ever can know.
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