A Study of

The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

Understanding God

The Names of God

God as Three Distinct Beings

Who is God ?

The Names of God

El (Elohim)

Adonai

Jehovah

God is Deity

El – “ale” strong (mighty) one

The Formal Title of the One God

God as El

The Names of God

Elohim – “el-o-heem”

(plural of El) – strong ones

God as Elohim

The Names of God

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” Genesis 1:26

God = Elohim

God as Elohim

The Names of God

Multiple Personalities? No! Personalities vary, they are human traits

Multiple Manifestations? No! God appeared or acted in a great number of ways. These were simply choices God made based on the circumstances, not inherent to His nature.

Multiple Beings!

The Multiple Being

God as Elohim

El Shaddai: God Almighty [“el shad-dah’ee”] (Gen. 17:1; 35:11; Ex. 6:31; Ps. 91:1, 2)

El Elyon: The Most High God(Gen. 14:19; Ps. 9:2; Dan. 7:18, 22, 25)

El Olam: The Everlasting God(Gen. 16:13)

Compounds of El

God as El

O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:1,9

Lord = Adonai (master)

God as Lord & Master

The Names of God

Then Moses said to God, "Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What is His name?' what shall I say to them?“

Exodus 3:13

God as Himself

The Names of God

And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

Exodus 3:14

God as Himself

The Names of God

Moreover God said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.

This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.”

Exodus 3:15

God as Himself

The Names of God

And God spoke to Moses and said to him:

"I am the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name LORD I was not known to them.”

LORD = YHWH Exodus 6:2-3

God as Himself

The Names of God

YHWH – Jehovah – “ye-ho-vaw”Often given as “Yah-weh”

Written as LORD and GOD in most Bibles

“To Exist,” “To Be,” or “I AM”

The Name of the One God

God is YHWH

God as Himself

In Israel – too sacred to be spokenYHWH: never written with vowel pointsScholars call it the Tetragrammaton

Jehovah

• Jehovah Ro’i The Lord my Shepherd (Ps. 23:1)• Jehovah Sabbaoth The Lord of Hosts (1 Sam. 1:3) • Jehovah Elohim Israel The Lord, the God of Israel (Jud. 5:3)• Jehovah Jireh The Lord will provide (Gen. 22:14)• Jehovah Nissi The Lord is my Banner (Ex. 17:15)• Jehovah Shalom The Lord is Peace (Jud. 6:24)• Jehovah Tsidkenu The Lord our Righteousness (Jer. 23:6)• Jehovah Shammah The Lord is there (Ezek. 48:35)• Jehovah Rophe The Lord Who Heals (Ex. 15:22-26)• Jehovah M’Kaddesh The Lord your Sanctifier (Ex. 31:13)

God as Himself

Compounds of Jehovah

Jehovah God

YHWH - Elohim – Adonai I AM Strong Masters

Ones

YHWH - Adonai - Elohim

For in You, O LORD, I hope; You will hear, O Lord my God.

Psalm 38:15

And now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are true…

David (2 Samuel 7:28)

One God

3 Names!YHWH - Elohim - Adonai

The Names of God

God as Three Distinct Beings

Who is God ?

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead…

Paul (Romans 1:20)

The Essence of God

The Godhead

(YHWH)

GOD(Elohim)

TheFather

The Father is GOD

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:3

The Godhead

(YHWH)

GOD(Elohim)

TheFather

1 Cor.1:3

IS

The Son

Emmanuel

The Son is GOD

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God

…and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:1,14

The Godhead

(YHWH)

GOD(Elohim)

TheFather

1 Cor.1:3

IS

The Son

Emmanuel

IS

John 1:1-14

The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is GOD

But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?

While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."

Acts 5:3-4

The Godhead

(YHWH)

GOD(Elohim)

TheFather

1 Cor.1:3

IS

The Son

Emmanuel

IS

John 1:1-14

The Holy Spirit

ISActs 5:3-4

Here Is Where Many Stumble!

If the Father is God…and the Son is God…

and the Holy Spirit is God…

Then the Father, Son & Holy Spirit are simply different views or manifestations of one being - God

NO!Not According to the

Bible…

Jesus is not the Father:

…that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:3

The Godhead

(YHWH)

GOD(Elohim)

TheFather

1 Cor.1:3

IS

The Son

Emmanuel

IS

John 1:1-14

The Holy Spirit

ISActs 5:3-4

IS N

OT

1 Jo

hn 1

:3

The Holy Spirit is not the Son:

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

John 14:16-17

The Godhead

(YHWH)

GOD(Elohim)

TheFather

1 Cor.1:3

IS

The Son

Emmanuel

IS

John 1:1-14

The Holy Spirit

ISActs 5:3-4

IS N

OT

1 Jo

hn 1

:3

IS NOT

John 14:16

The Holy Spirit is not the Father:

When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.

And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

Matthew 3:16-17

The Godhead

(YHWH)

GOD(Elohim)

TheFather

1 Cor.1:3

IS

The Son

Emmanuel

IS

John 1:1-14

The Holy Spirit

ISActs 5:3-4

IS N

OT

1 Jo

hn 1

:3IS

NO

T

Matt 3:16-17

IS NOT

John 14:16

GOD

ONE GOD!Hear, O Israel: The LORD our

God, the LORD is one!Moses (Deuteronomy 6:4)

Jesus (Mark 12:29)

O LORD God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Hezekiah (2 Kings 19:15)

United in Being & Will

I and My Father are One…Jesus (John 10:30)

For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Paul (1 Corinthians 2:11)