That is
N.O.T. the Nicene Creed
"We believe in One God, the Father..."
You're quoting only part of the first line of the creed and treating it as if it were the whole.
The creed also says, "AND in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, of one being with the Father."
The Nicene creed was drawn up to counter the heresies that were being taught at the time. These heresies were about the person of Jesus. Some false teachers were saying that Jesus was God but hadn't been human at all; the human body is matter, which is not spirit and is wicked and opposed to God. Therefore God could not have been made flesh and inhabited a human body. These people were known as Gnostics, and what they taught is very similar to what Christian Scientists teach today. John and Paul had this group of people in mind when they wrote their letters and warned people of false teachers. John says "every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God", 1 John 4:2-3.
Other false teachers were saying that Jesus was God the Son, created by God at a certain point in time and subordinate to him. These people were following the teachings of Arius, who was later denounced as a heretic. This is what the JW cult teaches today - that Jesus was a god, inferior to the Father and became God at his baptism.
Both these teachings are false, and the Nicene creed was written to spell out what the church believes about Jesus.
At CF, anyone who does not acknowledge that Jesus Christ was fully divine and fully human cannot call themselves a Christian. This is stated in the forum rules, in the statement of faith.
The triune "Godhead" is
N.O.T. The One True "God" The Father
"We believe in One God, the Father..."
You are taking liberties with the Nicene creed of "Victory"
You're quoting only a fraction of it in order to prove your point.
"We believe in God the Father ......................... AND in Jesus Christ ............"
of course, The Father made all things through His Words, Genesis 1:1
"We believe in One God, the Father..."
They are all God in essence & nature, i.e. they are all "Godly / Godlike / Divine"
Divine means God.
If you acknowledge that the Son and the Spirit are divine you are saying that they are God.
Great! ONE God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; as I said and as the church believes.
The Nicene Creed line one, phrase one, reads
"We believe in One God, the Father..."
PART of line one of the Nicene Creed says that - a lot of the creed explains who Jesus is and what we believe about him. Again, this was drawn up to state the faith of the church and counter false teachings.
You are choosing not to quote the part of the creed that relates to Jesus; God, true God, and light. You are saying that the first few words of the first line of the creed are, in fact, the whole creed - they are not. Father is only part of who God is; he is also Son and Spirit.
It's like if I said, "I believe in the Queen; sovereign of the UK, head of the church of England, and the commonwealth, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother ....", and someone else said "I believe in the Queen, sovereign of the UK". Being sovereign of the UK does not prevent her from being those other things too. ALL those things are true about her. If someone chooses to say only one thing about her, that does not prevent all the other things being true of her too.
So God IS Father - he is also Jesus Christ, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
ONE God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
so he has three different "modes" of interacting with the world?
That is "modalism"
No.
God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit - ONE God. 3 "persons" in one; 1 in 3.
God the Father created the world, through the Son in the power of the Spirit.
God the Son, sent by God the Father and filled with the Spirit, redeemed the world.
God the Spirit, sent by the Father, draws us to God the Son. In Acts, he is also described as the Spirit of Jesus. He knows the mind of God, intercedes for us and makes us children of God and co-heirs with the Son, Romans 8:16-17.
God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, gives himself completely to us; he is fully involved, as Father, Son and Spirit, in our creation and redemption.
"We believe in One God, the Father..."
You are confusing & conflating & combining & merging & smushing together the Person of God The Father and His Godly Godlike Divine Essence & Nature which is shared amongst all three Persons of the triune Godhead
ONE God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit - that is the Trinity.
The Trinity is not easy to understand, or explain, but it is a main belief of the Christian church. You may not believe it, but it doesn't change the fact.
It is also a fact that people who do not believe the Trinity can only discuss it in certain parts of these forums - argue that with the Mods if you like; it won't change the facts.
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What is it then? Seeing as there is only ONE God.
You think The Father somehow derives from the triune Godhead?
God IS the Triune Godhead - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
I'm not diminishing God's Word, rather you are diminishing The God The Father
No, I'm not.
