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Christ reveals the Holy Trinity
Blogged by Ella Preece on 2nd March 2010
Christ's position is clearly one of great importance and significance, so naturally He is the centre of teaching, but how does this work when God is three persons, the Holy Trinity should be at the centre of our teaching?
If we use the New Testament alone it is difficult to grasp who Christ is. We have to have the New Testament in light of the Old. God the Father creates the word “God spoke” and over time He begins to reveal Himself “His omnipotence is universal, mysterious and shows itself in the creation of the world out of nothing and humanity out of love”, He prepares His people through the prophets and signs. It is then through His love for us that “God so loved the World that He gave His only Son”. He is the Word made flesh, the Word incarnate, “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched— this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us”.
But what of the Holy Spirit? “God left some trinitarian traces in creation and the Old Testament” but it remains inaccessible to human reason. “This mystery was revealed by Jesus Christ and is the source of all other mysteries”.
We see Christ bringing the Holy Trinity to light at a few poignant moments, for example at His baptism, but He forever proclaims His relationship with the Father and how we can be a part of that, and also His relationship with the Spirit guiding and strengthening Him in prayer as we too can be guided and strengthened as well as receiving the gifts bestowed on us as members of Christ's family, the family of the Trinity. It is the Holy Spirit who guides the living Church today as instituted by Christ with it's mission to guide us to the Father in heaven.
Though Christ is the centre of our teaching, as He through His incarnation has become our salvation, the guide which our human understanding can follow, He Himself makes it clear that we need to place all our hope, joy and trust in the fullness of God as the Holy Trinity.
