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Q.10. What are the individual, personal qualities that belong to the three persons of the Godhead?
A. From all eternity, the Father begets the Son;[1] the Son is begotten by the Father,[2] and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.[3]
| 1. | Hebrews 1:5-6 | [5] For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”? [6] And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.” |
| Hebrews 1:8 | [8] But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. | |
| 2. | John 1:14 | [14] And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. |
| John 1:18 | [18] No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known. | |
| 3. | John 15:26 | [26] “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. |
| Galatians 4:6 | [6] And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” |
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