![]() For as the Trinity has only one and the same natures so too does it have only one and the same operation." The Holy Spirit is present throughout salvation history from Genesis to Revelation. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us that, "The whole divine economy is the common work of the three divine persons. God's Plan is the work of the Three Persons in Him Athanasius, expressed it this way in his creed, "Now this is the Catholic faith: We worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity, without either confusing the persons or dividing the substance for the person of the Father is one, the Son's is another, the Holy Spirit's another but the Godhead of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is one, their glory equal their majesty coeternal." confessed the faith of the Apostles when they said, "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father." The great fourth century Doctor of the Church, St. The second ecumenical council at Constantinople in 381 A.D. Paul's second letter to the Corinthians 13: 14, " The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." The central mystery of the Catholic faith is that God is a Trinity, three divine persons in one God (one substance or essence). In these the mass of Christendom has still one faith.We begin every holy sacrifice of the Mass, which commemorates the Passion and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ as celebrated at the Last Supper the night before He died for our sins, with a citation from St. Again we note that, with but few exceptions, all Christians, even in the divided condition of the Church, are still united in the "one baptism " and if we look to such expressions of the one faith as are contained in the baptismal profession ( e.g., of the Apostles' Creed), it is clear that our divisions, great as they are, turn mainly on the fourth subsidiary Article on the "Holy Catholic Church," and not on the three primary Articles of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. It is on the indwelling of Christ in each heart by faith that the spiritual unity of all Christians-primarily with Him, secondarily with one another-depends and that spiritual unity is "put on" in baptism ( Galatians 3:27), in which we are "buried with Him and risen again" ( Colossians 2:12), growing into the likeness of His death and resurrection ( Romans 6:3-5). Romans 6:3,4 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? …ġ Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.Įllicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) One Lord, one faith.-From the idea of "the calling," the Apostle passes naturally to Him who calls-the "one Lord"-and to the method of His calling to Himself, first, by the "one faith," and then by the "one baptism" at which profession of that one faith is made. Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Romans 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.Ģ Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. Romans 14:8,9 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's…Įphesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: There is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism,Īcts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.Īcts 10:36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism ![]() We have only one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,įor THE LORD JEHOVAH is One, and the faith is one, and the baptism is one,
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