Let us create

Coming from a denomination where the triune God was taught in every aspect. I had been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son and the Holy Spirit multiple times. I went along with what I was told because nothing else was taught. We would sing the song with the line "God in three persons, blessed Trinity." But where was this doctrinally in scripture?

It was not until I got into Apostolic Pentecostal doctrine that I began to search scripture for myself. I asked my pastor lots of questions and what studies I could do to grow my knowledge. He challenged me to study the "Why". Which why? Any one that I questioned coming from a background of baptist and non-denominational, I asked it and started looking in the only place I could get the answer. 

One of the questions I asked myself was why Oneness. Did it really matter if I believed in a triune being as opposed to One God? While there are numerous scriptures that support the oneness of God, we don't have to go very far into the Word to see that there is but One God. 

Genesis 1:26-28 is where God created man. In these verses, God uses specific verbage that tells us that all the aspects of God as we know Him were present during creation. He says "Let us make man in our image." This tells us that God as the creator, Jesus and the Holy Ghost were all embodied together as the foundation of the Earth was formed. This was the body, soul and strength, the same things which were then created in the first man, Adam. 

As you read, it says "He created them." When Adam was created from the dust of the Earth, he was one man. He embodied the body, soul and strength in the physical form where God was in the spiritual form. Was Adam one man in three persons? No. He was one. In like manner, God is not one God in three parts. He is One. 

This may be simple but we have a tendency to over complicate things by trying to over spiritualize. God is not an author of confusion though. He was not bipolar when He said let us. He was speaking from every part of Who He is and was creating us to be. 

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