Question:
Is it right to say of the heavenly Trio, “God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit”? Do the heavenly Trio have the same equal eternal existence?
Answer:
- It is always safe to confine ourselves to the terminology of the Word, and we never find these expressions among the Bible terms. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all of Deity, but why try to name Them in a way that the Bible has not? The counsel we would give is that the closer we adhere to Bible language, the better it is.
- It would clearly seem that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit have existed for eternity. That is a question that is utterly incomprehensible to man. “Who by searching can find out God?” Of the Son, it is said, in predicting His coming in the flesh, “Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” (Micah 5:2). The margin reads, “the days of eternity.” In the first chapter of John, we read: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” (John 1:1-3). Certainly, no mortal or finite mind can comprehend what lies beyond that period. The Spirit is called “the eternal Spirit” and therefore has equal existence with the Father and Son. (See Hebrews 9:14).
