God The Father, The Son & Holy Spirit Are Three In One

I had the opportunity to carry on a conversation with someone the other day. He told me that he did not believe that God the Father, The Son, and Holy Spirit are three in one. He referred to it as the triune. I think I had an expression of shock/disbelief on my face when he stated that. I began to defend Jesus and asked him if he believed that He was born of the Virgin Mary, died on the cross and rose from the dead. His reply was that Jesus was only a man and not God. I told him he was wrong in that and that Jesus chose to come down from the splendors of heaven and take on our sins and die for us so we will be saved. He came to the world as we know it in the form of a man, no less God. I asked him where in the bible does this show this. He also told me that when the Holy Spirit is in capital letters in the bible it refers to God and when in lower case it refers to the gifts or things of the Holy Spirit. I told him I will get the verses in the bible to show him God is three in one.

This happened yesterday and I knew I was going to church that night for an evening service. The presence of the Lord was very real last night during praise and worship, the preaching of the word of God, and even after the service when they played a worship song again. I went up to my pastor and presented to him the above situation and asked where in the bible does this show they are three in one. We were extra blessed yesterday because one of his colleagues was also there (a bible scholar and preacher also.) I was told three scriptures that support this in the bible. Let me share them with you now so as to clear up any thoughts of others that are thinking the same thing as the person I spoke with.

Genesis 1: 26 "Then God said, 'Let us make humans in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the domestic animals all over the earth, and all the animals that crawl on the earth."

John 1: 9-18 " The real light, which shines on everyone, was coming to the world. He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him. Yet, the world didn't recognize him. He went to his own people, and his own people didn't accept him. However, he gave the right to become God's children to everyone who believed in him. These are people who haven't been born in a physical way-from a human impulse or from a husband's desire to have a child. Their birth was from God.
The word became human and lived among us. We saw his glory. It was the glory that the Father shares with his only Son, a glory full of kindness and truth.
(John declared the truth about him when he said loudly, 'This is the person about whom I said, The one who comes after me was before me because he existed before I did.)
Each of us has received one gift after another because of all that the Word is. The Teachings were given through Moses, but kindness and truth came into existence through Jesus Christ. No on has ever seen God. God's only Son, the one who is closest to the Father's heart, has made him known."

Colossians 1:13-23 "God has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of his Son, whom he loves. His Son paid the price to free us, which means that our sins are forgiven. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. He created all things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Whether they are kings or lords, rulers or powers-everything has been created through him and for him. He existed before everything and holds everything together. He is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, the first to come back to life so that he would have first place in everything.
God was pleased to have all of himself live in Christ. God was also pleased to bring everything on earth and in heaven back to himself through Christ. He did this by making peace through Christ's blood sacrificed on the cross.
Once you were separated from God. The evil things you did showed your hostile attitude. But now Christ has brought you back to God by dying in his physical body. He did this so that you could come into God's presence without sin, fault, or blame. This is on the condition that you continue in faith without being moved from the solid foundation of the hope that the Good News contains. You've heard this Good News of which, I, Paul, became a servant. It has been spread throughout all creation under heaven."

Scripture verses came from the God's Word bible.

Be blessed today and please go to church and worship the Lord and receive the word of God. Don't forget to not only be blessed but share of yourself and be a blessing to others today. You just never know when you are entertaining angels.