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The Doctrine of the Study Notes - 1

Sola-Scriptura - ______

Sola-Fide - ______

Soteriology - ______

Sola Trinitas - ______

The doctrine states that God is the ______, existing as three persons, or ______, but one being. Each of the persons is understood as having one ______essence or nature, not merely similar natures.

Trinity Doctrine originally dates to ______, formal definition settled in ______.

2 Peter 3:14-18 Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found at peace with Him without spot or blemish. Also, regard the patience of our Lord as ⌊an opportunity for⌋ , just as our dear brother Paul has written to you according to the wisdom given to him. He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures. Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard, so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

How many Gods are there? – ______– we call it ______

Deuteronomy 6:4 “Listen, Israel: our God, the LORD is One.

Deuteronomy 5:7 Do not have other gods besides Me.

Isaiah 44:6 This is what the LORD, the King of Israel and its , the LORD of Hosts, says: I am the first and I am the last. There is no God but Me.

Mark 12:29 “This is the most important,” Jesus answered: Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is One.

John 14:6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

Dr. Christopher G. Young – the Trinity #1 -The Way/Graceway- 5/12/2021 1 Matthew 16:24-25 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

John 14:16-17 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever-- the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me.

History-

1st to speak - ______2nd to speak - ______

3rd to speak - ______

The first early father us the word "Trinity" was ______

His understanding came from the oldest written scrolls’ dating back to ______

Theophilus defines the Trinity as God, His Word ______and His Wisdom ______and he established that out of the first three days of ______.

1st Defense of the Trinity Doctrine: ______by ______.

But it wasn’t until ______, in the Nicene which defined the Trinity Doctrine.

The creed used the term ______(of one substance) to define the relationship between the Father and the Son and the Spirit.

Sola-Trinitas wasn’t finally accepted as the hallmark of orthodoxy as "three persons, one being" until ______

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in , that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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