Why The Father Makes Up The Trinity

The trinity is made up of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Many people question why God the Father is the first person that makes up the trinity. The three reasons we learned in class why Father is first in the trinity is: if there is a son then there is a father, Jesus called God the Father “Father”, and God the Father has many characteristics of fatherhood. The Trinity started with God the Father and life starts with a “Father” and we are his children whom he made us all equal and all in his own image.God the Father is meant to be the beginning love which is why he is the first person of the Trinity. It only makes sense that the Trinity starts with the Father then to the Son and the Holy Spirit.
First, God the Father has many characteristics of fatherhood. Having a son which is Jesus who he sent down to earth to die for our sins gives God the Father one attribute of fatherhood. “I will offer my son whom I …show more content…
“For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.”(John 5:18) In this bible verse John talks about how Jesus was wanting to get murdered for calling God his Father.People did not believe that he was God the Fathers son so they wanted to murder for him for thinking he was equal to God. Which he is because there is only one God but in three persons. God the Father is first in the Trinity because Jesus Christ himself called him God the Father. That is why the Trinity goes in the order of Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Also in John 14:6 Jesus says “No one comes to the Father except through me.” We need to get through God the Father’s son Jesus in order to speak to the Father. “The Father sending the son, the Son giving us the Spirit, the Son glorifying the Father.” (LoveMakesSenseofGod p.39). God the Father started everything through himself that is why he is the first person of the