8 And the four living creatures, individually having six wings, were full of eyes all over and
   within [underneath their wings]; and day and night they never stop saying, Holy, holy, holy is
   the Lord God Almighty (omnipotent), Who was and Who is and Who is to come. [Isa 6:1-3.]
  9 And whenever the living creatures offer glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him Who sits on
  the throne, Who lives forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities), [Ps 47:8.]
 10 The twenty-four elders ( the members of the heavenly Sanhedrin) fall prostrate before Him
  Who is sitting on the throne, and they worship Him Who lives forever and ever; and they throw
  down their crowns before the throne, crying out,
 11 Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and dominion, for You
  created all things; by Your will they were [brought into being] and were created. [Ps 19:1.]

  Let us study reverently the following hymn of Reginald Heber, who was inspired
  by this seraphic praise...

  "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty!
  Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee;
  Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty!
  God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

  Holy, Holy, Holy! All the saints adore Thee,
  Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
  Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee,
  Which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be."

   Note:  For the purposes of our studies, Scriptures will be cited by the
   Amplified Translation Bible unless otherwise referenced.*

   True Worship: 
  God dwelling eternally as One God in three Persons has inspired awe and wonder in the
  hearts of man, enlightening ,enriching and elevating his view of Almighty God.
  It is the Light of Truth which has provoked worship and adoration to the Blessed Trinity.

  This worship entails worship of the Godhead as Father, Son and Holy Ghost (Spirit). 
  It is their own divine position as clearly demonstrated through the Old and New
  Testament that these three are God in distinction of Persons.
  This is not to say we worship "each one of the three Persons as three Gods or as separate
  Gods."   However, we can call upon each of the Godhead and address them as a person due
  to the divine qualities attributed to each of them.  
     ● Our Christian faith is in One God existing in three distinct Persons.  
    ● We worship God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

   The Bible explicitly states that the Father, as such, and the Son, as such,
   received worship.                     
 The Father  John 4:23
  23 A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will
  worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as
  these as His worshipers.
  32 Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man
  born blind.
  33 If this Man were not from God, He would not be able to do anything like this.
  34 They retorted, You were wholly born in sin [from head to foot]; and do you [presume to] teach
  us? So they cast him out [threw him clear outside the synagogue].
  35 Jesus heard that they had put him out, and meeting him He said, Do you believe in and adhere
  to the Son of Man or the Son of God ?
  36 He answered, Who is He, Sir? Tell me, that I may believe in and adhere to Him.
  37 Jesus said to him, You have seen Him; [in fact] He is talking to you right now.
  38 He called out, Lord, I believe! [I rely on, I trust, I cleave to You!]
  And he worshiped Him.
  The Holy Ghost
  It can be inferred from the fact that the Holy Spirit is God that He should be worshiped. 
     Each Person of the Godhead is co-equal and co-eternal.
  Each in their eternal state have the same qualities attributable only to God...
     omnipresent (present everywhere),
    omnipotent (have absolute power and authority),
    omniscient (knowing everything). 
  The triple praise of the seraphim... denotes each are worshiped.
  How can one build relationship without communication, expression of honor and interaction?
  The Holy Spirit is sent as our helper. he standby us and abides in us to hear our hearts and
  the confessions and professions of our mouth. He discloses, declares, transmits and imparts
  the things of Christ to us.  It His voice that we hear. He prays for us those things we do not
  know how to pray.  He gives us the gift of tongues, the spiritual languages. All communication
  with God is spiritual.  Paul says we pray in the spirit and we pray with understanding.
  Prayer is the Holy attribute that God receives before the throne.  Yes, we communicate and
  pray building relationship directly with the Holy Spirit.  We talk with Him and He talks with us.
  Again, He is God. He is no less God nor no more God than the Father, and the Son.

     Isaiah 6:3    KJV
  3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth
  is full of his glory...... is significant when it is disclosed in the New Testament that the Son
 (Jn 12;41)  and the Holy Spirit (Acts 28:25) were actively on the scene. (Rev. 4:8)...  
  John 12:39-41   
  39 Therefore they could not believe [they were unable to believe]. For Isaiah has also said,
  40 He has blinded their eyes and hardened and benumbed their [callous, degenerated] hearts
  [He has made their minds dull], to keep them from seeing with their eyes and understanding with
  their hearts and minds and repenting and turning to Me to heal them.
  41 Isaiah said this because he saw His glory and spoke of Him. [Isa 6:9,10.]
  Acts 28:24-26
  24 And some were convinced and believed what he said, and others did not believe.
  25 And as they disagreed among themselves, they began to leave, [but not before] Paul had
  added one statement [more]: The Holy Spirit was right in saying through Isaiah the prophet to
  your forefathers:
  26 Go to this people and say to them, You will indeed hear and hear with your ears but will not
  understand, and you will indeed look and look with your eyes but will not see [not perceive, have
  knowledge of or become acquainted with what you look at, at all].

    The Holy Spirit is addressed as God...
  ● the prayer of apostolic benediction of 2 Corinthians13:14,
     ● the prayer of Moses in Numbers 6:24-27
     ● the adoration of Revelation 1:4

     These scriptures address the Holy Spirit with distinction of person as God and show
  reverence or worship to Him as well as the Father and Son.
   2 Cor 13:14  KJV   
  14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost,
  be with you all. Amen.
  Numbers 6:24-26    
  24 The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you;
  25 The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and
  giving favor) to you;
  26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart
  and life continually).
     Revelation  1:4-6 
  4 John to the seven assemblies (churches) that are in Asia: May grace (God's unmerited favor) be
  granted to you and spiritual peace ( the peace of Christ's kingdom) from Him Who is and Who was
  and Who is to come, and from the seven Spirits [the sevenfold Holy Spirit] before His throne,
  [Isaiah 11:2.]
  5 And from Jesus Christ the faithful and trustworthy Witness, the Firstborn of the dead [first to be
  brought back to life] and the Prince (Ruler) of the kings of the earth. To Him Who ever loves us and
  has once [for all] loosed and freed us from our sins by His own blood, [Ps 89:27.]
  6 And formed us into a kingdom (a royal race), priests to His God and Father--to Him be the glory
  and the power and the majesty and the dominion throughout the ages and forever and ever. Amen
  (so be it).  [Ex 19:6; Isa 61:6.]

 Both the Threeness and the Oneness of God are embraced by the term. 
 God in His Trinitarian manner of existence is unique. 
 There is no one or thing like Him in the universe...
  18 To whom then will you liken God? Or with what likeness will you compare Him? [Acts 17:29.]
  19 The graven image! A workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver
  chains for it.
  20 He who is so impoverished that he has no offering or oblation or rich gift to give [to his god is
  constrained to make a wooden offering, an idol; so he] chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks out
  a skillful craftsman to carve and set up an image that will not totter or deteriorate.
  21[You worshipers of idols, you are without excuse.] Do you not know? Have you not heard?
  Has it  not been told you from the beginning? [These things ought to convince you of God's
  omnipotence and of the folly of bowing to idols.] Have you not understood from the foundations of
  the earth? [Rom 1:20,21.]
  22 It is God Who sits above the circle (the horizon) of the earth, and its inhabitants are like
  grasshoppers; it is He Who stretches out the heavens like [gauze] curtains and spreads them out
  like a tent to dwell in,
  23 Who brings dignitaries to nothing, Who makes the judges and rulers of the earth as chaos
  (emptiness, falsity, and futility).
  24 Yes, these men are scarcely planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely does their stock take root
  in the earth, when [the Lord] blows upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind or tempest takes
  them away like stubble.
  25 To whom then will you liken Me, that I should be equal to him? says the Holy one.

  In the 25th verse the Holy Spirit scribes through Isaiah that God is One.
  Due to both the plurality and the oneness of the Godhead,
     ● it makes efforts to demonstrate God's nature quite difficult.
     ● it enables those with opposing doctrines to find support for their
      respective positions from the same scriptural illustrations.

  Comparing man to the Godhead is inadequate in its demonstration.
  Even though man is made in the image of God, and therefore, shares some aspects to His being,
  God is not made in the image of man and, thus, the comparison is inadequate.

  The Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Spirit is God;
  but the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Father nor the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is not
  the Father nor the Son.

  God is One life essence or substance existing consciously as three Persons.  The three Persons
  are not related to the divine substance, as three individuals to a common species of a living thing.
  For example, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are of human nature but do not comprise as one man. 

  The Father, Son and Holy Spirit do comprise as One God, not a triad, but a Trinity. 
  In the inmost depth of their being they are inherently and inescapably one.
    The three Persons of God bear witness of Light, Truth, and Works.
 These Ministries are different.
 They minister in three different realms in God's Master Plan of Redemption.
 They are equal in their Holy Divine Nature, but  there is distinction.
 We can easily see the relationships among them is so real and personal.
 It is impossible to conclude that they are only personalities of one person.

  A true personality requires a person.  
  Unless the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit each were persons, they could not be true
  personalities.

  The three Persons are One God perfect in purpose and action.
   While they are distinct they are inseparable as one God:
  1.  The Father reveals the Son as the Savior of the world.
  2.  The Son reveals the Father as the Source Cause of all things and Father is not Begotten.
       The Son is the Begotten of the Father.
  3.  The Holy Ghost reveals the Son's Spiritual Stature to all penitent believers who desire
        to mature into the Measure of the Fullness of Christ's Stature.   

  Let us look at a number of passages that will help us to better understand the word "one" as
  it pertains to the trinitarian faith that God is One in Three Persons....

  The word "one" is not a reference to a single unit in the exact mathematical sense, but is one
   in the sense of a compound unity, or a unity of more than one, a unity that involves purpose,
   will, identity, sensibility and intellect.   See webpage Marvelous Wonders
   for a study on the awesome significance of "one" as it applies to both physical realities and
   spiritual realities.

   Please make special note that we are not writing about the "Oneness" movement and the
   errors in understanding the divine Trinity.
   "Oneness" advocates declare the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as titles and not names. 

   It required the appearance of the Son of God on earth to accomplish redemption's plan, and
   the coming of the Holy Spirit to apply it, which results in our ability to see the Light of Truth
   that God is one Lord.
  
     ● In a true sense God is one, and in an equally true sense the three members of the Godhead
     are distinct. 
     ● It is both reasonable and scriptural to say that there is one divine essence or nature which
      all have in common, and yet, there are three mutually related and distinct centers of
      consciousness, knowledge, love and will. 
     ● This revelation of the Trinity of the Godhead reveals the nature of God.
 
   Let us look at each distinction in the divine works of God to get a clearer understanding.

   If you are a student of the Bible, have you found it compelling to acknowledge the New Testament
   clearly presenting a plurality of God identified by the Father, Son and Holy Spirit?  
     ● Plurality makes it challenging for most to see and believe in One God.  
  ●There are those who would deny that there is a plurality of Persons.
    
   We want to build on the plurality of God to demonstrate the existence of the Father,
   the Son and Holy Ghost (Spirit) by the Scriptures.

Declared to Be God:
   1.  The Father
     ...for God the Father has authorized and certified Him and put His seal of endorsement upon
    Him.  (John 6:27)
     Who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father...  (1 Peter 1:2)
  2.  The Son
      ...the Word was God    (John 1:1)
     But as to the Son, He says to Him, Your throne, O God...    (Hebrews 1:8)
  3.  The Holy Ghost
      ...that you should lie to and attempt to deceive the Holy Spirit,...
     you have not [simply] lied to men [playing false and showing yourself
     utterly deceitful] but to God.   (Acts 5:3,4)
     ...the temple of the Holy Ghost  ---- the temple of God (1 Cor 6:19; 3:16)

  Father, Son and Holy Spirit Grouped Together: 
    1. Luke 1:35  ...The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will
       overshadow you [like a shining cloud]; and so the holy (pure, sinless) Thing (Offspring)
       which shall be born of you will be called the Son of God
   2. Matt 28:19-20  Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the
       name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
   3. Romans 1:1-4 ...the Gospel (good news) of and from God... [The Gospel] regarding His
       Son, Who as to the flesh (His human nature)...  And [as to His divine nature] according
       to the Spirit of holiness was openly designated the Son of God in power [in a striking,
       triumphant and miraculous manner] by His resurrection from the dead,...   
    4.1 John 5:7  So there are three witnesses in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy
       Spirit, and these three are one;
   5. Hebrews 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
       offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
       living God?

   THE FATHER
   The Father is the source of all things seen and unseen.  What is He like?
    Fatherhood is more than one of His attributes; it is who He is and what He does. 
   He is the Eternal Father of the Eternal Son.  There never was a time that He was not Father.
   He was Father before He ever created, judged, redeemed, or answered a prayer. 
   His creation, love, care, and provision came out of His Father-heart.

   The Spirit with which He anoints and manifests His presence comes from
   "Our Father who rules from Heaven's realm. 
    When we pray it is not just to God, it is to our Father.
    ● He is Father of His Kingdom (Matthew 6:9-10)
    ● He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ  (John 1:14)
    ● He is Father of our spirits (Hebrews 12:9)
    ● He is Father of Israel (Exodus 12:9)
    ● He is the Father of family (Ephesians 3:14-15)
    ● He is Father of lights  (James 1:17)
    ● He is Father of all born of the Spirit (Romans 8:15-17)
    ● He is Father to the fatherless (Psalm 68:5)
    ● He is the Father to whom the Son has been given all authority
        to reign over the Kingdom of life eternal.  (1 Corinthians 15:27)
    ● He is the Father of a family who inherits His kingdom through His son
       and reigns with Him by the Name of Jesus and the power of the Holy Ghost.
 
   This is a family Kingdom therefore we are also to be fathers,
  mothers, brothers and sisters in Christ, the Anointed One.
   As Father, He gives us abundant life and eternal life in His Son.
  We become the Father's house while on earth.  While we live it is Father's plan, purpose and
  act that we become one as the Father and Son are one.
  (John 10:10; John 14:6-7; John 17:21)
  The antichrist spirit in the world hates the Fatherhood and the Spirit of the Father. 
  The enemies primary purpose is to pervert and destroy fatherhood.

  THE SON
   How do we know the Father?  It is through the Son, Jesus Christ,  who came to reveal the Father.
   Jesus is the Father revealer:
   ● He is the Word of the Father (John 1:1)
   ● He is the Will of the Father (John 4:34)
   ● He is the Work of the Father  (John  5:17-19)
   ● He is the life of the Father   (John 5:26)
   ● He has the authority of the Father  (John 5:27)
   ● He is the Righteous Judge of the Father (John 5:30)
   ● He is the representative of the Father (John 5:43)
   ● He is the pleasure of the Father (John 8:29)
   ● He is the path to the Father (John 14:6)

   ► Jesus knew and revealed the Father uniquely. 
   ►Jesus' desire was not primarily that we know him, but that we know
      the Father.
   ► We know the Father because we know the Son. 
   ►The Father is Spirit and truth.
   ►The Son demonstrated the Father's nature through His birth, life,
      crucifixion, burial, and resurrection.

   THE HOLY SPIRIT
   Jesus said, "If you, being  evil, know how to give gifts to your children, how much more  will your
    heavenly Father give you the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him. (Luke 11:13)

   ► The Father wants to give us truth.
   ► He also wants to give us the Holy Spirit.
   ►It is the Holy Spirit that guides, teaches and motivates us.  (John 14:26)
   ►It is the Holy Spirit that draws us to the Father to commune with Him.
      (Romans 8:15-16) 
   ►It is the Holy Spirit from the Father that draws others to us to seek
      spiritual "parenting." 
   ►The Holy Spirit's desire is that we give life to others as our Father
       in Heaven gave life to us by revealing His Son.

    When Jesus was baptized, the Father sent the Holy Spirit upon Him and said,
    "This is my beloved  Son in whom I am well pleased." 
    Then the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted.
    Satan's temptations were all directed at "self-serving." 
    Jesus rejected them in favor of "Father-serving" because the Holy Spirit of the Father was upon
    Him. 
    Then Jesus, being led by the Holy Spirt and in the power of the Holy Spirit went about serving
    others and bringing sons to glory.
    (Isaiah 61:1-3; Hebrews 2:10; Luke 4:14)

   ► It is the work of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son that we are
       motivated towards service and reproduction. 
   ►The Spirit of fatherhood and sonship calls us to spiritual parenting. 
   ►The Holy Spirit is the same spirit of the Father. 
   ►God the Father is both spirit and truth. 
   ►Spirit is His Holy Spirit and Truth is His Son who was made manifest on
      the earth for us to obtain knowledge and understanding of the Kingdom 
      of Heaven and the Blessed Trinity.

   Three at the River Jordan:
   Luke 3:21, 22  Luke 3:21-22
   Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized, and
   [while He  was still] praying, the [visible] heaven was opened
   And the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven,
   saying, You are My Son, My Beloved! In You I am well pleased and find delight!
   [See also Ps 2:7; Isa 42:1.]

   The witnesses of this holy scene, and the readers of the four Gospel accounts, were conscious
   of three distinct beings:  the One who stood before them, the One who descended from heaven,
   and the One who spoke from heaven.  If such were not the actual event, it must be regarded as
   an event which was calculated to deceive all who saw it and those who recorded it and those who
   later heard about it or read about it.  Any attempt to present an alternative interpretation, attempts
   to remove from this baptismal scene the divine plurality (so obviously present), and is an evasion of
   God's inspired record.

   There is no record that Jesus the Incarnate Son, ever departed from His incarnation (with the brief
   three day exception of departure from the physical aspect of His manhood in His death and
   resurrection). 
   He could not be the voice from heaven, the "symbolic dove" from heaven, and the one being
   baptized by another human even tough all things are possible with God.  Jesus was never seen
   two places at one time in His incarnate life, before or after the resurrection.  This is a testimony
   to the restraining operation of His omnipresence during His life on the earth.
   For this attribute of God to be operational would have made His incarnate, (flesh manhood) a
   drama and a deception for the redemption.

   The Prayers of Christ:
   John 17:1-5 
   17:1 WHEN JESUS had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, Father,
   the hour has come. Glorify and exalt and honor and magnify Your Son, so that Your Son may
   glorify and extol and honor and magnify You.
   2 [Just as] You have granted Him power and authority over all flesh (all humankind), [now glorify
   Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him.
   3 And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with,
   and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the]
   Christ (the Anointed one, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.
   4 I have glorified You down here on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do.
   5 And now, Father, glorify Me along with Yourself and restore Me to such majesty and honor in
   Your presence as I had with You before the world existed.

   If Jesus were not only man but also a one-personed God, it was cruelly deceptive of Him
   to "lift up His eyes to heaven" as if He were praying to the Father.   If He Himself were the Father,
   then, He who was "the Truth" would not have given Himself to such a false pretense.
   It is not proper to suppose He was accommodating Himself to the concept of God that was held
   by his disciples for He always lifted the thoughts of the earth-bound souls to whom He ministered
   up to the heights of truth.
   John 4:20-24
   20 Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you [Jews] say that Jerusalem is the place
   where it is necessary and proper to worship.
   21 Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father
   neither [merely] in this mountain nor [merely] in Jerusalem.
   22 You [Samaritans] do not know what you are worshiping [you worship what you do not
   comprehend]. We do know what we are worshiping [we worship what we have knowledge of
   and understand], for [after all] salvation comes from [among] the Jews.
   23 A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will
   worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as
   these as His worshipers.
   24 God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and
   in truth (reality).

   The prayers of Jesus alone justify the belief and acceptance of a plurality of Persons
   in the Godhead. 

    Direct References by Jesus to a Plurality of Persons:
    Not Alone...
    John 8:16  Yet even if I do judge, My judgment is true [My decision is right]; for I am not alone
    [in making it], but [there are two of Us] I and the Father, Who sent Me.
    John 8:29  And He Who sent Me is ever with Me; My Father has not left Me alone, for I always do
    what pleases Him.
    John 16:32  But take notice, the hour is coming, and it has arrived, when you will all be dispersed
    and scattered, every man to his own home, leaving Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the
    Father is with Me.
    Isaiah 44:24  Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and He Who formed you from the womb:
    I am the Lord, Who made all things, Who alone stretched out the heavens, Who spread out the
    earth by Myself [who was with Me]?--

    This verse as line by line, pretext by pretext with other Scriptures demonstrates that the Lord
    did not stretch out the heavens alone... to mean there is no distinctions among the persons in the
    Godhead.  The entire context reveals that the comparison is between the one true God and idols
    (see Isaiah chapters  41thru 49).
    In comparison, Numbers 23:9 tells us that "the people shall dwell alone," but we do not infer from
    this that every Israelite dwelt in absolute solitariness; but rather, as a collective unit, Israel dwelt
    alone, and was not "reckoned among the nations."
    Another...
    John 14:16  And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper,  
    Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever--  Amp
    "Another" can only mean  "one more,  not the same."
    Two...
    John 8:17-18  In your [own] Law it is written that the testimony (evidence) of two persons is
    reliable and valid. [Deut 19:15.]
    18 I am one [of the two] bearing testimony concerning Myself; and My Father, Who sent Me,
    He also testifies about Me.
    What other inference can be drawn from this application by Jesus of this legal requirement of two
    to Himself and the Father?  His meaning is made plain: "I and the Father make two." 
    Not two Gods, but two distinct persons within One Godhead. 
    Both...
    John 15:24  If I had not done (accomplished) among them the works which no one else ever did,
    they would not be guilty of sin. But [the fact is] now they have both seen [these works] and have
    hated both Me and My Father.

    Examine any exhaustive concordance and it will be plain to you that "both" signifies "more than
    one,"  with the words "seen and hated." 
    The words "seen and hated" are not identical terms, they are distinct.
    Thus the word "both" indicates plurality and distinction between "Me and My Father" in this
    passage.
    We... Our...
    John 14:23  Jesus answered, If a person [really] loves Me, he will keep My word [obey My
    teaching]; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (abode,
    special dwelling place) with him.

    The evidence that a plurality exists in the Godhead is too strongly stated by the Scriptures to be
    successfully denied.  No discussion of the divine nature can ignore the revelation of the Word
    concerning this plurality. 

    Now let us seek how we can understand our revelation of plurality and reconcile it with the
    revelation of "one God."

   Without understanding the plurality of the Godhead we are left exposed to doctrines that purpose
   to distort our belief in One God, true monotheism.
   Monotheism is represented by many movements or belief systems.
   Not only the "Jesus Only" movement, but also Judaism, Mohammedanism, Russellism, and
   Moderism are proponents of monotheism. 
   However,  divergent their views may be on many subjects, these groups are firmly united in their
   anti-Trinitarian stand.  In order that we have a clear understanding of true monotheism (one God),
   we need to let the Scriptures by the entire Word of God reveal that truth.

   In order to define our faith and Trinitarian belief it is necessary that we have emphasized what the
   Scriptures tell us of the plurality of the Godhead in order to combat unscriptural belief of
   anti-Trinitarians.  We believe in one God. 
   Unfortunately there are those who are not throughly acquainted with what the Scriptures define
   as true monotheism in plurality of persons.  Consequently, they assume the  "Three God" doctrine
   is the Trinitarian doctrine.  So let's dive into the Word of God and let the Light of Truth be
   enlightened to our hearts and minds!

   A belief of the infallibility of the Holy Scriptures compels the Church to state that there is one God,
   one subject of reference.
   As the Bible reveals the Trinity it does not conclude a mathematical equation that one God
   is three Gods or that one person is three persons.
   What we need to understand is that "one" is not always a reference to a mathematical one.

   Let the universal law of mathematics demonstrate for us what is difficult to grasp through
   words...
   One (1) raised to the 3rd power (one multiplied by itself three times 1x1x1= 1)  is still one!
   "One" is not a reference to a single unit in the exact mathematical sense, but one is in the
    sense of a compound unity, or a unity of more than one, a unity which involves plurality
    and unity of purpose.

    The Bible demonstrates this physical and spiritual principle.
    Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united
   and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. [Matt 19:5; 1 Cor 6:16; Eph 5:31-33.]
    1 Kings 22:13  KJV  And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying,
    Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth:  
    John 17:22   I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may
    be one [even] as We are one:
    Acts 4:32  KJV  And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: 
    neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own;
    but they had all things common.
    1 Corinthians  3:88  He who plants and he who waters are equal (one in aim, of the same
    importance and esteem), yet each shall receive his own reward (wages), according to his own
    labor.
    Ephesians  2:14  For He is [Himself] our peace (our bond of unity and harmony). He has made us
    both [Jew and Gentile] one [body], and has broken down (destroyed, abolished) the hostile
    dividing wall between us,
    1 John 5:7  KJV For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy
    Ghost: and these three are one.

    Now to review the principle of plurity in the unit of "one"...
   ●Two people (husband and wife) "shall become one flesh."
    ● Paul the planter and Apollos the waterer are one. 
    ●God has made both Jew and Gentile one.  
    ●The multitude of believers are described as of "one heart and one soul." 
    It is easy to see that the Bible frequently expresses a unity which involves a plurality,
    a compound unity.
    There is a much deeper study of this topic in which the Hebrew language reveals the word "achid"
    which means a united one. 
    The verse of Deuteronomy 6:4  uses this this Hebrew word for ONE.
    There are many other references to "achid" which denotes the plurality of one in a united one.

    It is wonderfully scriptural and satisfactory to our understanding that several Bible versions
    demonstrate the use of plural pronouns whereby there are conversations among the three
    Persons in the Godhead, each of whom have a will and each of Whom were active in the Creation
    are recorded.
    Genesis 1:2-3  KJV   And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face
    of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
    3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
    Hebrews 10:7  Then I said, Behold, here I am, coming to do Your will, O God--[to fulfill] what is 
    written of Me in the volume of the Book.
    John 12:28  [Rather, I will say,] Father, glorify (honor and extol) Your [own] name! Then there
    came a voice out of heaven saying, I have already glorified it, and I will glorify it again.
    Psalm 2:7  I will declare the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, You are My Son; this day [I declare]
    I have begotten You. [Heb 1:5; 3:5,6; 2 Peter 1:17,18.]
    Psalm 110:1  THE LORD (God) says to my Lord (the Messiah), Sit at My right hand, until I make
    Your adversaries Your footstool. [Matt 26:64; Acts 2:34; 1 Cor 15:25; Col 3:1; Heb 12:2.]

    The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are distinct...

    ● The Father and the Holy Spirit are never spoken of as manifestations in the Scriptures.  
    ●Jesus Christ , the Son of God, the brightness of His glory and the express image of His Person, 
      alone is described as the manifestation of the Godhead. 
    1 Timothy 3:16  And great and important and weighty, we confess, is the hidden truth
     (the mystic secret) of godliness. He [God] was made visible in human flesh, justified and
     vindicated in the [Holy] Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on
     in the world, [and] taken up in glory.
   ●It was not the Father nor the Holy Spirit , but the Son who was incarnated, and was "received up
      into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God."
     Luke 1:32  KJV  He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest:
     and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
     Luke 1:35  KJV  And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon
     thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which
     shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
     Mark 16:19  So then the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven
     and He sat down at the right hand of God.
   ●Let us also note that the Father nor the Holy Spirit are said to be manifestations of each other
      or to be manifestaions of the Son.

    If language teaches anything, the New Testament teaches that the Son of God and the Holy Spirit
    were far more than agencies, impersonal powers.
   ● The Son of God and the Holy Ghost are revealed as personal Agents.

    It is imperative that we understand the essence of the Divine Persons...
    ● If the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost were mere manifestations, why is there such detail
       given to them and their Divine natures to distinguish one from the other?
    ●Can a manifestation really be said to love another manifestation? 
    ●If only a manifestation, when the purpose of the manifestation is fulfilled, would not the 
       manifestations themselves cease to exist?

    Another aspect of the Trinity is the Perfect Mutual Knowledge each have of one another. 
    Father of the Son...
    All things have been entrusted and delivered to Me by My Father; and no one fully knows
    and accurately understands the Son except the Father...

    Son of the Father...
    ...and no one fully knows and  accurately understands the Father except the Son and anyone
    to whom the Son deliberately wills to make Him known.

    Father of the Holy Spirit...
    27 And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit
    [what His intent is]...

    Holy Spirit of the Father...
    ...because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to
    and in harmony with God's will.
    10 Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit
     searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and 
     bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny].
    11 For what person perceives (knows and understands) what passes through a man's thoughts
     except the man's own spirit within him? Just so no one discerns (comes to know and
     comprehend) the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

   Son of the Holy Spirit...
    26 But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby),
    the Holy  Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act
    on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of,
    bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you.

   The Scriptures are very clear to specify each member of the Godhead as a Person
   who lives forever.
   The Father...
    Matthew 6:9  Our Father Who is in heaven,
    Matthew 6:13  For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
    John 17:1  WHEN JESUS had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, 
    Father, the hour has come. Glorify and exalt and honor and magnify Your Son, so that Your Son
    may glorify and extol and honor and magnify You.
    John 17:3-5  And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted
    with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the]
    Christ (the Anointed one, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.
    4 I have glorified You down here on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do.
    5 And now, Father, glorify Me along with Yourself and restore Me to such majesty and honor
    in Your presence as I had with You before the world existed.
    The Son...
    John 12:34  At this the people answered Him, We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to
    remain forever; how then can You say, The Son of Man must be lifted up [on the cross]?
    Who is this Son of Man? [Ps 110:4.]
    Hebrews 7:24
    24 But He holds His priesthood unchangeably, because He lives on forever.
    Hebrews 13:8  Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is [always] the same, yesterday, today, [yes] and forever
   (to the ages).
    Holy Ghost...
    Hebrews 9:14  KJV  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
    offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve
    the living God?

    Persons reveal emotion.  The highest emotion and condition of the soul is love. 
    Let us look at the mutual love distinctly revealed of the Persons of the Godhead.

    Father to the Son...
    The Father loves the Son and has given (entrusted, committed) everything into His hand.