Elementary School - The Trinity

The word Trinity is not found in Scripture, but the concept of the Trinity is clear in its accounts. It is an important doctrine of the Christian faith, advocating that God eternally exists as three Persons. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God—but there is only one God. Because of our finite minds, this concept is impossible to fully understand and/or explain. Let’s consider a few things.

There is only one God. “I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God” (Isaiah 45:5).

Middle School - The Trinity

All three Persons of the Trinity—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—are called God. In Christ all the fullness of deity dwells bodily (Colossians 2:9). The Holy Spirit and God are both referred to as God (Acts  5:3–4).

All three Persons of the Trinity are eternal. God is from everlasting to everlasting (Psalm 90:2). The throne of the Son is forever and ever (Hebrews 1:8). The Spirit, too, is eternal (Hebrews 9:14).

All three Persons of the Trinity are Creator. Genesis 1:1–3 clearly references that God and the Spirit of God were present at creation. John 1:1–5 brings Christ—the second Person of the Trinity—into the picture at creation. He was in the beginning with God, and all things were made through him. Colossians 1:15–17 again confirms that Jesus Christ is the firstborn over all of creation. And by him all things were created. This passage also reiterates the eternality of Christ.

High School - Attributes of God

What is God like? How can we presume to answer this question? Our God is incomprehensible—he can never be fully understood. In fact, as believers we anticipate an eternity of discovering new things about him.

David said of him, “Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable” (Psalm 145:3), and “Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all” (1 Chronicles 29:11). We can’t say it any better than the Apostle Paul, “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways” (Romans 11:33)! The glimpses of God we observe from his Word are far from complete.

God keeps himself in unapproachable light. We cannot see him as Adam and Eve once did. But he promises one day we will. And what a day that will be when his children will be like him, for they will see him as he is (1 John 3:2)! How we long for the day we will once again see God, talk with him, and enjoy the fellowship that was originally intended but broken because of sin. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3).