Section 6
what Christ is. Most Christians know Christ merely according to an objective doctrine of the Trinity. We definitely believe that God is triune. As the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, God is three-in-one. This is a heavenly, divine, spiritual mystery which no one can explain adequately. We do not even have a thorough understanding of ourselves, much less of the Triune God. In the Bible, the Triune God is not for us to analyze in a doctrinal way, but for the dispensing of Him self into us.
The Gospel of John reveals that God the Father is embodied in God the Son and is made known through the Son. John 1:18 says, "No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him." When Philip asked the Lord Jesus to show the disciples the Father, the Lord was apparently sur prised at such a question, and He said to him, "Am I so long a time with you, and you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). The Lord answered Philip in a mysterious way, telling him that as long as he had seen the Lord Himself, he had seen the Father. In John 14:10 the Lord went further: "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words which I speak to you,