Contrasting Views about the Divinity of Christ and Their Impact on the Acceptance of the Personality of the Holy Spirit and the Trinity in Seventh-day Adventist Theology

Abstract

In the early church, the divinity of Christ's understanding was significant to accepting the doctrine of the Trinity. How were the Seventh-day Adventists? This work surveys the impact of the divinity of Christ’s idea on the doctrines of the Holy Spirit and the Trinity in the Seventh-day Adventist theology. Of five views on the divinity of Christ, two ideas reflect the acceptance of the Trinity. These two ideas argue that if Jesus is God, he has a distinct personality from the Father, and he has the nature, substance, and attributes of God; this understanding will lead to the acceptance of the personality of the Holy Spirit, then, finally to the inclusion of the Trinity. This article maintains that a correct biblical understanding of the divinity of Christ helps to the acceptance of the personality of the Holy Spirit and the Trinity.