In the middle are two pictures showing the more literal variations of Creation as recounted in Genisis, and on the bottom is an article from a man who tells us about Creation and the Trinity as seen by the Early Church Fathers. The Trinity. The doctrine of the Trinity is encapsulated in Matthew 28:19, where Jesus instructs the apostles: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
" The parallelism of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit is not unique to Matthew’s Gospel, but appears elsewhere in the New Testament (e.g., 2 Cor. 13:14, Heb. 9:14), as well as in the writings of the earliest Christians, who clearly understood them in the sense that we do today—that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three divine persons who are one divine being (God). The Didache "After the foregoing instructions, baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living [running] water. . . . If you have neither, pour water three times on the head, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Didache 7:1 [A.D. 70]). Ignatius of Antioch Justin Martyr Theophilus of Antioch Irenaeus Tertullian Origen Hippolytus Novatian. Trinity in Creation. The Scriptures teach us that God created all things both in the spiritual and physical realms. Moses informs us that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).
It is beyond doubt amongst Bible-believers that God was responsible for Creation for there are too many references to suggest otherwise. We find in Isaiah 40:28 that He is called the Creator, “Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? The word “created” (bara) is used to describe the activity of God’s exclusivity.
The method that God used to create the universe was the power of His spoken word. The evidence regarding the divine persons involved in Creation to this point reveals that God created everything through His Word. The Lord Jesus’ work in CreationJesus is described as The Word in John 1:1-3, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The tradition thought on Creation. The creation as told in Genisis. Creation and Genesis. Fundamentalists often make it a test of Christian orthodoxy to believe that the world was created in six 24-hour days and that no other interpretations of Genesis 1 are possible.
They claim that until recently this view of Genesis was the only acceptable one—indeed, the only one there was. The writings of the Fathers, who were much closer than we are in time and culture to the original audience of Genesis, show that this was not the case. There was wide variation of opinion on how long creation took. Some said only a few days; others argued for a much longer, indefinite period. Catholics are at liberty to believe that creation took a few days or a much longer period, according to how they see the evidence, and subject to any future judgment of the Church (Pius XII’s 1950 encyclical Humani Generis 36–37). Justin Martyr "For as Adam was told that in the day he ate of the tree he would die, we know that he did not complete a thousand years [Gen. 5:5]. Theophilus of Antioch Irenaeus Origen.