A nature exhibits what it is by the things it does. Activity reveals and makes known to us identity. Scripture marks off for us the eternal identity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. One way it does that is by indicating these divine prerogatives, these activities that God alone does. God alone creates, God alone saves, God alone forgives sins, and so forth, and we see throughout the Scripture that those unique works of God are assigned to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
And yet this God is indivisibly One. One nature, one power, one will, and yet irreducibly three; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It's only Scripture that gets you to the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity. That doesn't come from philosophy, that doesn't come from any other place; it is only God making that known to us in the Scriptures on His terms, marking off His eternal identity for us.
– Dr. Carl Beckwith
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