Trinity

Trinity We worship one God who exists eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Trinity Is this doctrine Biblical?

Trinity Is this doctrine absurd?

Trinity Is this doctrine Biblical? Is this doctrine absurd? Does this doctrine make any difference?

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis1:26-27(NIV)

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis1:26-27(NIV)

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis1:26-27(NIV)

We tend to apply the idea of the image of God individually.

Yet the account of Genesis tells us that we bear the image of God as male and female.

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him”... But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, The man said, “This is now bone of my bones “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Genesis 2:18,20-2(NIV)

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him”... But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, The man said, “This is now bone of my bones “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Genesis 2:18,20-2(NIV)

The Two as One Flesh

Daniel Wegner Transactive Memory

The Two as One Flesh James Lynch

The Two as One Flesh James Lynch Age Standardized Death rates per 100,000 men (40-69)

The Two as One Flesh James Lynch Age Standardized Death rates per 100,000 men (40-69) MarriedSingleWidowedDivorced

The Two as One Flesh James Lynch Age Standardized Death rates per 100,000 men (40-69) Non-Smoker Married790 Single1074 Widowed1396 Divorced1420

The Two as One Flesh James Lynch Age Standardized Death rates per 100,000 men (40-69) Non-SmokerSmokers Married Single Widowed Divorced

The Two as One Flesh James Lynch Age Standardized Death rates per 100,000 men (40-69) Non-SmokerSmokers Married Single Widowed Divorced

The Two as One Flesh James Lynch Age Standardized Death rates per 100,000 men (40-69) Non-SmokerSmokers Married Single Widowed Divorced James Lynch, A Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequeces of Loneliness, Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 2000.

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery— but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV)

God has created us in his image.

Marriage appears to be one of the ways that we mirror in our lives the life of the trinity.

God has created us in his image. Marriage appears to be one of the ways that we mirror in our lives the life of the trinity. The relationship of husband to wife mirrors the relationship of Christ to his church.

God has created us in his image. Marriage appears to be one of the ways that we mirror in our lives the life of the trinity. The relationship of husband to wife mirrors the relationship of Christ to his church. These relationships are a matter of life and death.

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in turn: Christ, the first-fruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. I Corinthians15:20-23 (NIV)

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in turn: Christ, the first-fruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. I Corinthians15:20-23 (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. I Thessalonians 4:13-16 (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. I Thessalonians 4:13-16 (NIV)

God has created us in his image. Marriage appears to be one of the ways that we mirror in our lives the life of the trinity. The relationship of husband to wife mirrors the relationship of Christ to his church. These relationships are a matter of life and death. This points to the very serious damage that sexual sin creates.

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. I Corinthians 6:18-20 (NIV)