ong>Creation by a Triune God. The Bible begins with God fashioning the world through his creative Word and Spirit (Genesis 1:1-3); a God that we know from the New Testament (John 1:1-3) to be Triune. God is one and yet exists in three equal, eternal, and distinct persons. God is not more three than one, nor more one than three. He is perfect unity in diversity and diversity in unity. The implications of this are clear in Ephesians 4:1-6. Paul urges the Ephesian Christians to unity despite their diverse gifts and callings (vv.7-13). But the unity Paul calls for is no abstraction. It is motivated by an appeal to the unity-in-diversity of the Trinity —“one Spirit….one Lord…one God and Father of all.” Because God is unity in diversity, Christians can and must know unity across the diverse human barriers of race and culture.Read Full Article »
