The Bible Teaches God is a Trinity

Definitions: God: In the Bible (as well as in most other literature) it is customary for a single word to have more than one meaning. There are two definitions of the word "God" I will be using as respects the Trinity. (1) The nature of the Divine Being, that is, divine nature. Gal 4:8 "Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which BY NATURE are no gods." Here the Bible says that false gods are not gods "by nature," hence, that is why they are false. So someone my worship a stone, hence making that rock his god, but in reality the stone has no innate nature to make it divine. This implies that God himself is by nature God. So, I'll be using the word God in this way. This nature involves a number of characteristics that are unique to God alone, such as omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and immutability. (2) The Being which possesses such a nature as the one ascribed to God in my comments above. The distinction can be illustration with human beings. "Human" can mean a person himself as a living entity, but it can also refer to his human nature as in "he is human." The word "human" will involve all the attribute of humans, such as skin, flesh and bone, emotions, reasoning capacity, etc. So too, "God" brings to mind a sum of attributes as well. Trinity: A single Being (that is, God) who is comprised of, or exists in the form of, 3 persons. Each person is fully "God" in the sense that each person shares the nature of the total divine being such as the attributes of omnipresence, omniscience, and so forth. But each person is not "God" in the sense that each person is the entire Being (entire Trinity). Each person is only "part" of this Being. To illustrate, a scoop of flour cannot be the whole bag of flour; but the scoop will have all the attribute in itself that makes it "fully" flour by nature, just as each person has the attributes that make them "fully" God by nature. Person: Wikipedia defines "person" as: "an entity that has certain capacities or attributes associated with personhood, for example in a particular moral or legal context.[2] Such capacities or attributes can include agency, self-awareness, a notion of the past and future, and the possession of rights and duties, among others." http://wzus1.search-results.com... Based on this definition, the criteria I will use for the purpose of this debate, is "any living thing which possesses intelligence, rationality and consciousness. The Holy Spirit fits this definition: He has a mind and knowledge (intelligence) "And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what the is the mind of the Spirit" (Rom 8:27) "The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." (1 Cor 2:11) He reasons (rationality) For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us..." (Acts 15:2) He is self-aware (consciousness) "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them ." (Acts 13:2) Now that definitions are cleared up, onto the evidence for the Trinity: Isa 44:24 tells us that Yahweh created all things, stretched out the heavens ALONE and spread out the earth BY HIMSELF. Yet the Bible reveals the Father as Creator (Mal 2:10), as well as the Son (John 1:1-3, 10; Col 1;16-18) and the Holy Spirit. (Job 26:13; 33:4; Ps 104:30) This is why God says "us" and "our" when creating man at Gen 1;26. Either God had help in creation and was thus lying when he said he did it ALONE, BY HIMSELF, or else the Trinity is true. Scripture declared in unambiguous terms that there is one and only one God in all of existence. (Deu 4:35; Isa 43:10-11; 44:6, 14, 21-22; 46:9; Mal 2:10; Mk 12:32; Rom 3:30; 1 Cor 8:6; Eph 4:6; 1 Tim 1:17; 2:5; Jam 2:19) Unclear passages should be interpreted in light of the clear ones, and these are unabashedly clear in pronouncing that there is only one God. Yet, Scripture reveals the Father is God (Mal 2:10), the Son is God (John 1:1-3, 14; 5:18; Heb 1:8-12), and the Holy Spirit is God. (Acts 5:3-4; Heb 3:7-11) There is only one true God. (1 John 5:20; John 17:3) Therefore, all other gods are false. So either Jesus and the Holy Spirit are false gods, or they must be the true God, one God with the Father. Previously I stated that the word "God" sums up the nature of the Divine Being just as the word "human" brings to mind our own nature. There are aspects of this divine nature that are unique to God. For example, 1 Kings 8:39 says that "only" God can read hearts. "thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men." Yet, the Bible says that Jesus does too. (Mk 2:6-8; Matt 9:4; John 2:24-25; also compare Jer 17:9-10 and Rev 18, 23) This shows Jesus is God. More examples: The Father is omnipresent (Ps 139:7-10; Jer 23:23-23; Eph 4:6), as is the Son (Eph 1:22-23; 6:10), and the Holy Spirit. (Ps 139:7) The Father is eternal (Ps 90:2), as is the Son (Heb 7:3; John 1:3; Col 1:17), and the Holy Spirit. (Heb 9:14) The Father is omnipotent (Dan 4:35), as is the Son (Matt 28:18), and the Holy Spirit. (Isa 40:12-14) The Father is omniscient (1 John 3:20), as is the Son (John 16:30; 21:170, and the Holy Spirit. (1 Cor 2:10-11) Since only one Being possesses these attributes, and all three persons exhibit them, we must conclude that the 3 persons constitute the one Being. So again the Trinity is proven to be Biblical. Jesus is God: Yahweh declares that "I am the Lord; and besides me there is no Savior." (Isa 43:11) "A just God and a Savior; there is none besides me." (Isa 45:21) Yet, Acts 4:12 says of Jesus, "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must get saved." Here Jesus, as part of the trinity, speaks on behalf of the others for they are not completely separate entities from himself. Being omnipresent, in the spirit world, they all share the same substance, yet have three minds. Its like 3 brains in one body, and that's why ancients Trinitarian art depicted the Trinity as a man with 3 heads. The body belonged to each mind, so each mind could claim to be the man, that is, the entire body; so too, each mind in the trinity (each consciousness in the trinity) can speak for the entire Divine Being. Jesus is the only Savior by virtue of being God. If Jesus isn't God, then Acts 4:12 is lying, and there are two Saviors; but if there are two Savior then Isaiah was also in error too. Granville Sharp's rule of grammar states that when 2 nouns in Greek are both singular and both describe a person, and both are connected by the word "and," the first having the definite article ("the") and the second not having it, they both describe the SAME PERSON. (Granville Sharp's Rule, by James White) Titus 2:13 and 2 Peter 1:1 qualify under this rule. Titus calls Jesus "our great God and Savior," and Peter calls him "our God and Savior." In both verses the noun "God" (theou) has the article (tou) and is connected to the second noun "Savior" (sosteros) which doesn't have the article, by the word "and" (kai). Thus "God and Savior" both refer to the same person, Jesus. Jesus is even called "my God" by Thomas, and he blesses this profession of faith. (John 20:28-29) If Jesus weren't God, he would have rebuked Thomas as any monotheistic Jew would. Prayer is also given to Jesus (1 John 5:12-15; Acts 7:59; 1 Cor 1:2) as well as worship. (Heb 1:6) Since God alone is to be worshiped (Rev 22:8-9) Jesus must be God. I look forward to hearing Con's view of Jesus true position in relation to the Father.