Evangelical Edition
Whosoever will be saved must believe in the One True God as He has revealed
Himself to us in the Bible (Psalm 103:11&17), and trust in the Lord Jesus
Christ according to the Gospel (Acts
And God has revealed Himself in Scripture
as one God in three Persons and three Persons in one God without combining the
Persons or dividing the Deity.
For the Father is one Person (Luke
But the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are One
God (James
Those things pertaining to the Deity of
the Father are true also of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
As the Father was never created (Psalm
90:2), the Son was never created (Micah 5:2), and the Holy Ghost was never
created (Hebrews
As the Father is incomprehensible (Romans
As the Father is eternal (Isaiah 63:16),
the Son is eternal (Micah 5:2, John
And yet they are not three Eternal Beings,
but one Eternal Being (Mark
Likewise there are not three Uncreated
Beings or three Incomprehensible Beings, but one Uncreated Being and one
Incomprehensible Being (Deuteronomy 6:4, Job 9:10 and 37:5, Psalm 90:2, Isaiah
43:10, 1 Timothy 6:16).
So likewise the Father is almighty
(Jeremiah 32:18, 2 Corinthians 6:8), the Son almighty (Revelation 1:8,18, Isaiah 9:6), and the Holy Ghost almighty (Ezekiel 10:5,
1 Corinthians
And yet they are not three Almighty
Beings, but one Almighty Being (Mark
So the Father is God (1 Peter 1:2), the Son
is God (1 Timothy
And yet they are not three Gods, but one
God (Mark
So likewise the Father is Lord (Matthew
And yet they are not three Lords, but one
Lord (1 John 5:7).
For as we are compelled by Scripture to
recognize each person by Himself to be God and Lord, So we are forbidden by
Scripture to say that there are three Gods or three Lords.
The Father was not made by anyone, nor was
He created or begotten (Psalm 90:2).
The Son is of the Father alone, not made
or created, but begotten (John
The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the
Son, neither made nor created nor begotten, but proceeding (John
So there is one Father, not three Fathers;
one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts.
And in this Unity-Of-Three none is before
or after another; none is greater or less than another;
But the three Persons are together coeternal and coequal (John 5:18,
Philippians 2:5-7), so as being in all things one God in three Persons they are
to be worshiped together in Unity as Three in One (1 John 5:7).
For this is the God of the Bible outside
of Whom there is no salvation.
Furthermore, it is necessary to
everlasting salvation for one to believe in Jesus Christ as the incarnate Son
of God and in His death as the atonement for our sin.
For the right faith is that we believe and
confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man (Romans
1:3-4); God of the substance as His Father (John 10:30), always existing as the
only begotten Son of God (Micah 5:2, John 17:5); and Man of the substance of
His mother (Romans 1:3), born in the world (Matthew 1:18); Truly and completely
God (Titus 2:13) and truly and completely Man (1 Timothy 2:5), consisting of
both body and soul (Mark 15:37-39).
As God He is equal to the Father
(Philippians 2:6) yet as man inferior to the Father (1 Corinthians 15:28); Who
while being both God and Man is not two individuals or two Christs, but one
individual, one Christ (1 Corinthians 8:6, 1 Timothy 2:5).
One, not by conversion of Deity into flesh
(Malachi 3:6), but by taking manhood into God (Hebrews 2:14, Philippians 2:5-7);
One altogether; not by mixing divinity with humanity (Malachi 3:6), but by
uniting the two in one person (Jeremiah 23:5-6, Colossians 2:9, John 14:9).
For as man consists of both body and soul,
so Christ consists of both Deity and humanity (1 Timothy 2:5, 1 John 5:20); And
Christ suffered for our salvation (1 Peter 2:21), died for our sins (1
Corinthians 15:3), descended into hell (1 Peter 3:18-19), rose again the third
day from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:4), ascended into heaven (Acts 1:9-11), and
there sits on the right hand of God the Father Almighty (Mark 16:19); from
whence He shall come to judge both the living and the dead (2 Timothy 4:1).
At whose coming all men shall rise again
with their bodies and shall give account of their own works (John 5:29 and
6:39-40), and at that judgement only those who have in this life (2 Corinthians
6:2) looked to Christ for mercy, trusting in His sacrifice for forgiveness
(Titus 3:5, Romans 3:25), shall be without sin and counted as doers of good in the sight of God (Romans
And they that have done good
shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil, into everlasting
fire (John
This is the Universal Christian Faith
apart from which there is no salvation.
Footnote: Athanasius was an early African Christian
bishop who defended the doctrine of the Trinity against the heresy of Arius.
Because he was a short dark skinned man the Arians referred to him
contemptuously as the "black dwarf". In 367AD he added the book of
James to the list of sacred books that became the New Testament.