The Case for the One Infinite God Behind the Trinity

“Glory be to the ONE INFINITE GOD in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and to our FATHER IN HEAVEN in the name of JESUS.”

Dr. Isabelo S.. Alcordo, Ph.D. /Updated: 03/12/2011

 I.1.  God and Creation. The Bible is not a book that proves the existence of God. The Bible leads us to believe that He exists and makes us realize who we are and how our own existence relates to His own REALITY. The Bible simply  assumes that God exists and proceeds to reveal God’s nature to us,  literally by exegesis (p<shat) and impliedly by eisegesis  (remez or hints and midrash or allegory) using our intellect and discernment with the assistance of the Holy Spirit.

 The Bible simply begins: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Ge 1:1). By His Word (Jn 1:1-5), in a series of “Let there be . . . ,” God created the seen and the unseen (See Genesis, Chapters  1-3).

[Jn 1:1-5: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.] 

 God’s creation of the visible worlds of living and nonliving matter and the invisible forces and laws that govern them that modern man has discovered which he presently uses not only to explain the workings of his observed universe but also to manipulate the same to create the most advanced technologies which mankind is enjoying today gives man no reason not to believe in the reality of God as his MAKER and as CREATOR of his universe. Thus was Paul justified in declaring to man:

Ro 1:18-20: The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

 God in His Oneness is unknowable. Except for the fact that the One God revealed Himself to humankind in history, mankind would have never known the One Infinite God. In such ignorance, mankind would have continued to this day worshiping nature, or the false gods of mediums and spiritists demanding human sacrifice; or human kings, emperors, and rulers who, by their political power or military might, would claim to be gods and so hold the power of life and death over ordinary men and women, as it was of old.

 Thanks be to God, through the indwelling of certain persons with His Holy Spirit called prophets, He revealed Himself in the history of a chosen people, the nation Israel, who  recorded their history in the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) all the bloody and sordid details of their  failure to live according to the Law and the Will of God. By these prophets, God was able to reach out to man to say that He was and is not beyond knowing and understanding (Jer 9:23-24) through His demands from mankind whom He created in His image, in His likeness (Ge 1:26).

[Jer 9:23-24: This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,’ declares the Lord.”

Ge 1:26: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”]

 I.2.  God is One and the Attributes of the One God.  There is but ONE God, according to the Bible, as revealed by men filled with the Holy Spirit (Deu 6:4-5; Isa 44:6; Mk 12:29). 

[Deu 6:4-5: “Hear, O Israel: ‘The Lord our God, the Lord is one.  5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.’”

Isa 44:6: This is what the Lord says — Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: “I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.”

Mk 12:29: “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this:” ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.’”]
 According to Jesus, God is (a) Spirit and that we should worship Him in spirit and in truth (Jn 4:24). More will be said of this verse later. He is also the God of the spirits of all mankind (Nu 16:22, 27:15-17) and the spirits of the prophets

[Jn 4:21-24: “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”

Nu 16:22: But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, “O God, God of the spirits of all mankind, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?”

Nu 27:15-17: Moses said to the Lord, 16 “May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all mankind, appoint a man over this community 17 to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the Lord's people will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

Rv 22:6: The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.”]

 There are attributes of God that man is familiar with which man has felt and experienced himself at certain moments in his life in finite scales and are within man’s ability to aspire for. These are being holy, righteous, just,  loving, kind, gracious, merciful, compassionate, good, faithful, and true to one’s words among so many others.  One needs only to see a Bible concordance to read these attributes of God. God, of course, has these attributes in the scale of the infinite.

 But there are attributes that belong to God alone. Thus, God is self-existent (Ex 3:13-14). His existence is not caused by anything outside Himself. He is self-sufficient having life in Himself and in need of nothing from outside Himself (Ro 11:35-36).
 
[Ex 3:13-14:  Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Ro 11:35-36: Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him? 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things.]

 He is omnipresent, being present in the highest heaven and in the deepest depth (Ps 139:7-8), and we even exist in Him (Ac 17:26-28). He is omniscient, perceiving the thoughts of men from afar and knowing man’s words before they are uttered (Ps 139:1-4; Isa 40:13-14), and omnipotent, whose words created the heavens and the earth (Jn 1:1-3). And He is perfect in everything (Mt 5:47-48).

[Ps 139:7-8:  Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

Ac 17:26-28:  From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’

Ps 139:1-4: O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.

Isa 40:13-14:  Who has understood the mind of the Lord, or instructed him as his counselor? 14 Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding?

Jn 1:1-3: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

Mt 5:47-48: “And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”]

 The One God is eternal and immutable. The book of Hebrews (Heb 1:10-12) declares these attributes of God.

[Heb 1:10-12: In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. 11 They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. 12 You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end.]

 The One God is Sovereign (Isa 46:9-11), Lord of heaven and earth whose kingdom rules over all (Ps 103:19).

[Isa 46:8-11: “I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. 10 I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please. 11 From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.”

Ps 103:19: The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.]

 Finally, to all His finite creations, humans and spirits, the One God is incomprehensible (Job 11:7-8; Ro 11:33), beyond their understanding; and infinite (1 Ki 8:27; Jer 23:24), whose face or form is beyond their ability to visualize or to perceive and we even “live, move, and have our being in Him (Ac 17:28).”

[Job 11:7-8: Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? 8 They are higher than the heavens — what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave—what can you know?

Ro 11:33: Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!

1 Ki 8:27: But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!

Jer 23:24: “Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?”  declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.

Ac 17:28: For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, “We are his offspring.”]

 I.3.  One God in Three Persons - The Trinity.  Moses declared (Deu 6:4-6): “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” So did Jesus (Mk 12:29): “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.”

 But before ascending to heaven, Jesus instructed His disciples to baptize believers in the name (singular) of three persons (Mt 28:18-20), that:  “of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

[Mt 28:18-20:  “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”]

 Theologians of mainstream churches have deduced from the Bible that the Three Persons are true God, declaring “the Father as true God, the Son as true God, and the Holy Spirit as true God.”  This is the doctrine of the Holy TRINITY.

 But if “true God” means having also the attribute of being INFINITE in everything qualitatively and quantitatively, how can three distinctly separate entities or personalities be  qualitatively and quantitatively infinite in everything? Does not one entity who is qualitatively and quantitatively infinite in everything rules out all other entities from being similarly infinite? The answer of the Trinitarian churches is that “The Trinity is a mystery!” I believe that the Trinity is NOT an unsolvable mystery as it seems. Rather, the true unsolvable mystery is the One Infinite God Himself!

 I.3.1.   Is “God the Father”  the One Infinite God? According to most mainline churches, the One God is  the “TRINITY.” To others, He is “the Father;” to some He is “the Son, Jesus Christ;” still to others He is “the Holy Spirit.” This confusion has led to numerous denominations.

 I believe that it is possible to deduce who the One God is by a process of elimination using the attributes of the One God.

 Now, one of the attributes of the One God given earlier is that of being  infinite. Since God is Spirit (Jn 4:23-24), the One God must be an infinite Spirit filling the heavens (1 Ki 8:27) and the earth (Jer 23:24).

[Jn 4:23-24: “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”

1 Ki 8:27: “But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!”

 Jer 23:24: “Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?”  declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.]

 Since it is impossible for finite beings to actually know,  see with their own physical or spiritual eyes, and comprehend the nature of that which is infinite, for the One Infinite God to be known that He exists, perceive, and comprehended by finite beings, He must, of necessity,  reveal Himself to them in some FINITE FORM or FORMS.

 Now, back to the question, can “the Father” be the One Infinite God?  To answer this, let us consider 1 Ti 6:15-16, Mt 5:8, Mt 18:10, and Jn 6:46 below:

1 Ti 6:15-16: God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen  or can see. To him be honor and might forever.

Mt 5:8: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.”

Mt 18:10: “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.”

Jn 6:46:   “No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. ”

 Without any doubt, God, in 1 Ti 6:15-16, refers to God the Father. The fact that God the Father “lives” in an unapproachable light indicates that He is enveloped within this unapproachable light. Whether this unapproachable light is finite or infinite is of no moment. The fact that God the Father is confined within it could only mean that the Father is FINITE, hence cannot be the One Infinite God.  There can be no other conclusion.

 Also, since angels, who are finite spirits, were reported by Jesus to be always seeing the face of God the Father in heaven (Mt 18:10 cited earlier), the Father cannot be infinite and, therefore, cannot be the One Infinite God. Besides, the Christ Spirit, Who undeniably has His defined form (Heb 10:5-7) and therefore finite, claimed to have seen the Father (Jn 6:46). Also, Jesus said that men who are pure in heart will definitely see or behold God with their own eyes (Mt 5:8).

[Heb 10:5-7: Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. 7 Then I said,” ‘'Here I am — it is written about me in the scroll — I have come to do your will, O God.’”

 Thus, we are led to no other conclusion but that God the Father cannot be the One Infinite God. More so if God the Father (Dt 32:5) is also the Almighty God of Israel, Yahweh or Jehovah,  whom the prophet Isaiah had declared to have seen with his own eyes (Isa 6:5).
Dt 32: 5 They have acted corruptly toward him; to their shame they are no longer his children, but a warped and crooked generation. 6 Is this the way you repay the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?

Isa 6:5: “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”]

 I.3.2.  Can “God the Son” (the Christ Spirit or Jesus the Man) Be the One God? Just as God the Father is not infinite in form, being seen by angels in heaven, so must God the Son or the Christ had also His pre-incarnation form distinguishable from that of the Father and the Holy Spirit. In His incarnation, God the Son became the man JESUS (Heb 10:5-7 cited earlier; 1 Jn 4:2-3; 2 Jn 7-11), becoming Jesus the Christ, Jesus Christ, or Christ Jesus. After the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, the Son assumed the form of the glorified body of “one like a son of man” or that of the man Jesus (Rv 1:12-16), hence giving us more reasons to assert that the Christ Spirit or Jesus the Man or the glorified Jesus cannot be the One Infinite God.  

[1 Jn 4:2-3: This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

2 Jn 7-11: Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. 11 Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.

Rv 1:12-16:  I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and among the lampstands was someone “like a son of man,” dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. 14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. 15 His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.]

 I.3.3.  Can “God the Holy Spirit” Be the One God?  The Holy Spirit or the Spirit of God Himself has also His defined form as indicated in the report by the Father and the Son in Genesis 1:1-2:

Ge 1:1-2. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

 Also, it is clear that the Holy Spirit is subject to both the Father (Jn 14:16-17) and the Son (Jn 15:26-27). Since being a  Sovereign or having absolutely sovereignty is another irreducible attribute of the One God, the Holy Spirit cannot be the One Infinite God. The Holy Spirit is more of a Helper to continue the work of Jesus, through the apostles and the Church, and to bring glory to the resurrected Christ Jesus (Jn 16:7, 12-15). The Holy Spirit appears more like the Personified Power of the One Infinite God to actualize whatever He wills! 

[Jn 14:16-17: “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.”

Jn 15:26-27: “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.”

Jn 16:7, 12-15: “Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.” “. . . 12 I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.”]

 1.3.4.  Can the Holy TRINITY be the One God?  The word “Trinity” is not found in the Bible. The Holy Trinity is a collective term for the three distinct and finite divine Persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Thus, the Trinity cannot be “a Person” or “one Person.” Not being a single entity or person, the Trinity cannot be the One God.

  Perceiving, by eisegesis,  “the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” collectively as the One God in Three Persons offers a possible answer to Biblical declaration that “God is One.” But the Trinitarian churches’ perception is NOT the same as the REALITY.  Perception is one thing; reality is another thing.

 So, questions remain of the doctrine of the Trinity being the One Infinite God as reflected by so many Unitarian church denominations. The only answer to these questions by the Trinitarian churches is: “It is a mystery!”  But is it?

There is a rational and Biblical way to solve this mystery. Indeed there is if the Three FINITE Persons of the Trinity come, emanate, or proceed from One Infinite Source to DO THE WILL OF THEIR ONE SOURCE WHO IS INFINITE.

 The process of elimination presented above has led me, and hopefully the readers also, to no other conclusion but that: None of the Three Persons of the Trinity nor the Trinity is the One Infinite God. We are also led to conclude that the three distinct divine Persons: Father, Son, Holy Spirit, individually, but acting in complete unity as One, are the One God’s finite revelations of His Infinite Person with God the Father being the ultimate revelation of the One Infinite God to spirit beings or angels and God the Son, speaking as the “One True God” to the seven churches (Rv 1:8, 2:8), the ultimate revelation of God the Father, hence also of the One Infinite God, to the human spirits-souls who were created below the nature of the angels (Heb 2:9; Ps 8:3-5).

[Rv 1:8: “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Rv 2:8: “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.’”

Heb 2:9: But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

Ps 8:3-5: When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

Jn 1:18:  No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.

Jn 14:9: “Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.”

 It is interesting to note that nowhere in the New Testament  was there one defined or personified form of God the Father visually revealed to mankind (Rv 4:2-4). Jesus said that for mankind to see the Father, they need only to see Him (Jn 1:18; 14:9 as cited earlier). Even at the very end of the book of unveiling (Book of Revelation), we are left with the vision only of the Lamb of God (JESUS) and the THRONE OF GOD (Rv 22:3-5) but without any image of God the Father!

Rv 4:2-4: At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. 3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne.

Rv 22:3-5: The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.

 I.3.5.  The One Infinite God and the Evolution of The Trinity.  Before taking on the One Infinite God, allow me to submit John 4:24 to clinch my argument that God the Father is FINITE and, therefore, CANNOT BE THE ONE INFINITE GOD.  Protestant and Catholic Religious Encyclopedias are agree that the undefined God is ONE and that He is INFINITE!

Jn 4:24: God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. NKJV
 By exegesis, God in this verse can only mean God the Father.  The phrase “is Spirit” indicates that God the Father CANNOT be differentiated from all other spirits. He cannot be differentiated from the Christ in His pre-incarnation state or from the Holy Spirit.  In effect, God the Father IS the ONE God Who being the undefined Spirit must also be Infinite. Such verse belies the doctrine of the Trinity! But is this translation faithful to the original language?

 The phrase “is Spirit” is found in the New International (NI), the New King James (NKJ), The New Jerusalem Bible Versions, as well as other non-literal versions of the Bible.

 But three Interlinear translations I have of the same verse from the original Greek (Nestle Greek Text translation by Rev. Alfred Marshall, 1978; The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of Jehovah’s Witnesses/WatchTower Bible and Tract Society, 1985; and BibleSoft’s Interlinear Transliterated Bible, 2006) read:  “is a Spirit” instead of “is Spirit.”

 The KJV of conservative Protestantism and the Douay-Rheims’ Roman Catholic Bible version translated directly from the Latin Vulgate reads: “God is a spirit . . .” And so do a number of other independent literal translations such as that of Young’s Literal Translations (YLT) of Jn 4:24 which reads:  “God [is] a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.”

 The faithful literal translation of John 4:24 clearly shows that God the Father is FINITE and so we can proceed with our search for the One Infinite God.

 An aside note. Academic theologians who ridicule non-academically trained Bible expositors who resort to the use of eisegesis to understand some inexplicable verses or to provide answers to hints of deeper revelations are worse offenders of in their use of eisegesis when they truncate the original language, as some did with John 4:24,  to support preconceived ideas.

 Being Infinite qualitatively and quantitatively, He alone is the ONE GOD and there is no other. In His Oneness, the One God is absolutely beyond knowing, beyond perceiving, and beyond understanding by His finite creations, both angels and humans, unless He reveals Himself to them in some finite forms. This He did in a Trinity of Persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As such, the Three Persons have the same essence as the One Infinite God, one of WILL and PURPOSE with the One God, and speak the words of the One God according to their distinct roles which define them as distinct “Persons” in the divine unveiling of the One God in creation and in salvation history and each, therefore, embodying the full and perfect manifestation of the One Infinite God. Such finite manifestations of the Infinite God facilitated His works of creation and revelation of Himself in and to His creations. Having revealed Himself, He, naturally,  demands recognition and glorification of His Infinite Person as CREATOR from  His intelligent creatures of angels and men. The Trinity also allowed Him to keep His very own Person pristine and untainted by His creations.

 How could the Trinity have come about? I believe that the One Infinite God’s DESIRE to CREATE led the One Infinite God to emanate and manifest finite essences of His INFINITE REALITY.

 First, the Infinite God emanated and “personified,” that is defined or made finite in form so as to become manifest, His Creative Will which He revealed to us as our “Father in heaven” (Mt 6:9-10) and designated by us as the “First Person of the Trinity.” And this “finite” Manifestation of the One Infinite God as God the Father impresses upon us, who are of finite mind/intellect/power, an intimate “Father-son” relationship with the Infinite God and reveals to us that the One God’s act of creations was an act of parental love. 

[Mt 6:9-10 “This, then, is how you should pray:” ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven’”]

 Then, but not necessarily in sequential time, the Infinite One God emanated and “personified” another Manifestation of Himself, His Creative Word or simply  “The Word” (Jn 1:1-3, see p. 5) whom we have identified as the Second Person of the Trinity, Who would call out into existence all that would be created (Genesis Chapters 1-3). Having emanated from the Infinite God but proceeding from the “finite” God the Father (Jn 1:18) into His own Personhood, the Second Person of the Trinity is also called God the Son or Son of God. He is also called the Christ (Heb 10:5-7 cited earlier) Who, upon His incarnation as Jesus of Nazareth, has been called Christ Jesus or Jesus Christ (Jn 20:31).

[Jn 1:18: No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. NKJV

Jn 20:31: But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.]

 Since the union between the Christ, the Son of God in Spirit, and Jesus, the man, was the work of God (Lk 1:35-36), Jesus the man is also true “Son of God” in flesh (Mt 3:16-17; 1 Jn 4:15-16). He alone was conceived in the womb of a woman by the power of God.

[Lk 1:35-36: The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.”

Mt 3:16-17:  As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

1 Jn 4:15-16: If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.]

 Now, whenever the Word declares“Let there be,” the Third Manifestation of the One Infinite God, His “personified” Creative Power (Mt 3:16-17 cited earlier; Ac 2:33-34) whom  we call God the Holy Spirit or simply the Holy Spirit - the Third Person of the Trinity - Who, emanating from the One God and proceeding from the Father and the Son, acts with all of the One God’s infinite power (Ge 1:1-2; Job 33:4) to actualize in perfection everything that was called out by the Word.

[Ac 2:33-34:  Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

Ge 1:1-2:  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Job 33:4: The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.]

 Since God is Spirit, it makes no sense to say “the Spirit of God” has made me. It does make a lot of sense if we know and accept that the “Spirit of God” or the Holy Spirit is the One Infinite God’s PERSONIFIED CREATIVE POWER!

 Thus, by the One Infinite God’s act of willful love, personified in the Father, called out by the Son, and executed by the Holy Spirit - in complete Unity of the Holy Trinity - were the world of spirits and our world and everything therein created. It is also in the name “of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” representing the One Un-nameable and Undefined God, that humankind is admitted into the Kingdom of God.  (Mt 28:18-20).

[Mt 28:18-20:  Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”]

 Thus, in adoring and loving recognition of the Infinite God behind the Holy Trinity, it is demanded of us that we glorify Him in all our worship and prayer. Thus, we should open our prayer: 

“In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit be glory to the One Infinite God and to our Father in heaven be glory in the name of Jesus.”

 Thus, the Trinity, instead of being a mystery, is the very key to knowing and understanding the One Infinite God. The different roles that the Three Persons play in the divine economy in complete unity to achieve the One Infinite God’s Will in creation, and later in salvation, enabled the One Infinite God to reveal Himself to His creations while eliminating any possibility of wrongful attribution to any One of the Three as the One Infinite God. Such truth could only have been arrived at by the leading of the Holy Spirit on the human intellect.

 Reason, which is a gift of God, has led me to this NEW revelation for the Church of God and for humanity for our time and age. It could serve as the Doctrinal Foundation for the Unity of All Christian Church Denominations.

 It also demands on us to understand and to respect all non-Christian monotheistic religions and to dialogue with them to promote peaceful coexistence among the various faith communities since all worship the same One Infinite God.  
 

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