Trinity

The Father, Son and Spirit are inseparable in work - and inseparable from each other in eternal life.

The Father has never existed without His Son and His Spirit.

The Father has never externally acted without His Son and His Spirit.

The Father did not become the Father at some point in eternity past - after He decided to beget the Son.

No! The Father has always been Father - because He has always, eternally begotten the Son, just as He has also eternally breathed out the Spirit.

The Son is not a creature nor is the Spirit a creature.

Both the Son & the Spirit are FROM the Father.

Neither the Son nor the Spirit are created by an act of will.

Neither the Son nor the Spirit are created from nothing, but both the Son & the Spirit are eternally FROM the Father.

The Father ALWAYS acts through the Son by the Spirit.

Just as the Father did not become the Father, so the Father has never acted alone - nor have the Son and the Spirit.

The Father did not create alone.

The Father did not first create the Son and then authorise the created Son to create everything else. No! The Father created all things through the Son by the power of the Spirit.

The Father, Son & Spirit TOGETHER created all things - from the Father, through the Son, by the Spirit.

The Father, Son & Spirit together create, reveal, save, judge and do all their external works.

The Father always and only acts through His Son by the power of the Spirit.

This pattern of "from the Father, through the Son, by the Spirit" is not an accidental or occasional pattern, but is the constant, necessary, eternal way that the Father, Son and Spirit always act together.

If then the Father, Son and Spirit are inseparable in life and operation in this way, it is impossible that the Son is in any way ontologically inferior to the Father when He constantly does the Father's will in the power of the Spirit.

The Son does not send the Father to do HIS will, rather the Son always does the Father's will - but this does not undermine the full ontological equality of the Son with the Father and the Spirit.

The Spirit does not send the Father to do HIS will, rather the Spirit is always sent by the Father, through the Son - but this does not undermine the full ontological equality of the Spirit with the Father and the Son.

The Spirit being poured out from the Father to the Son in no way diminishes the full, eternal ontological equal divinity of the Spirit!

The Son eternally rejoices to do the will of the Father - and is not diminished in any way by doing the will of the Father.

In fact, always doing the will of the Father expresses the full, total and perfect extent of His divinity!

If the Father always acts through the Son in the power of the Spirit - if the Trinity are inseparable in operation in this specific way - far from undermining the full divinity of the Son and the Spirit, this is a profound demonstration of the full divinity of the Son and the Spirit - the full equal ontology of the Father, Son and Spirit.

This is essential to appreciate the language of Jesus in the gospels - and why Jesus asserts His full divinity BY ASSERTING that He does the Father's will in the power of the Spirit.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐇𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐬.

John 5:16-23 - "Because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the religious leaders began to persecute Him.

In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”

For this reason they tried all the more to kill Him; not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God His own Father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees His Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom He is pleased to give it.

Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father.

Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent Him."