Threeness Of God: The Father, Son, And Holy Spirit

While there are many theologians who view God as one and the first mode of being due to His role as creator, God is also three in hypostasis or person. The correct description of the plurality or threeness of the Trinity can best be explained in the following depiction: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are truly distinct from one another because of their relationship with one another; however, they are entirely God due to sharing the same essence. This suggests that the threeness of God can be found in the Eternal Processions or relations between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as indicated by Gregory of Nazianzus. While each created thing is made up of a substance or ousia, each relation of the Trinity is a divine person of the same substance or homousious. Gregory of Nazianzus argues that, “The Father is not a name of substance nor of an action, but that the Father is the name of the relation in which the Father is to the Son or the Son to the Father.” Gregory is implying that the Father is the Father because of the relationship He has to the Son and the Son is the Son due to His …show more content…
The breath of God is when the Holy Spirit falls upon or is given to man and enlivens him through baptism. Just as Christ received the Holy Spirit via baptism, human beings are also promised His presence in their lives and there is a need for Him. Originally, God created human beings in His image. Due to man’s fallen state of sin, man cannot image Him fully. The Holy Spirit offers a renewal of God’s divine image by restoring human beings in a state of glory. This is accomplished by offering His presence on man and making man new. Man’s character begins to change when his actions are guided by the Holy Spirit. Human beings are also made new by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which enables them to live an obedient life, thus being redirected to the