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FAQ # 188
QUESTION 188 : If
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are all identical, one and the
same, then why is there any such distinction in the Bible at all? Why
not just say "God" or "Jesus" everywhere?
The answer to this is much the same as-
Why did God go by a multitude of names in the Old Testament? The answer
is because each name described a different ATTRIBUTE of God. God is not
"just" the Father who created the world, and then sat back to
watch it's progress. God is not "just" the Son who gave His
life to redeem mankind back to Himself (2 Cor. 5:19) and then left man
to work out his life alone after that. God is not "just" the
Holy Ghost who comes to dwell in the human heart to be that Helper without
which man cannot live a life of overcoming sin.
God is, as we say- the Father in creation,
the Son in redemption, and the Spirit in Sanctification.
Jesus was the Creator: John 1:10 "He
was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him
not."
Jesus is our Redeemer: Eph 1:7 "In
whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according
to the riches of his grace."
The Spirit is the Sanctifier, and His
name is Jesus: 2Th 2:13 "...God hath from the beginning chosen you
to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth."
2Co 13:5 "Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"
1Co 6:19 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you...?
1Co 12:4 "Now there are diversities
of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of administrations,
but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all ... 11 But all these worketh that
one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members
of that one body, being many, are one body: SO ALSO IS CHRIST."
{Source: Tom
R.}
[Moreover, “my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD” (Isa 55:8). So he works
and it is not always clear to us. He’s God and can do anything. He does
things to his “pleasure” (Isa 46:10).]
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