Titus 3:4-6

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Does Titus 3:4-6 support the Trinity Doctrine?

4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,
5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior,

So the logic is as follows: If God is the saviour and Jesus is the saviour, then Jesus must be God. Infact there are many scriptures that call God, savior such as 1 Timothy 2:3 and many other scriptures that call Jesus, savior such as Philippians 3:20. But can we say that Jesus is God using this logic?.

Have a look at the following verse. It clearly distinguishes between God and Jesus like all other scriptures that mention God and his Son.

Acts 5:31
God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

So God is our savior and he sent his Son to save us and that unselfish act also makes Christ our savior. Now if I save a person’s soul by presenting the gospel to them, then technically I can be that person’s savior, but does that make me God or Christ, absolutely not. Now we know that God is the source of all good things and we know that Jesus doesn’t do anything of his own accord, rather only what the Father wills. In fact we actually know that Jesus has his own will from God’s will, but Jesus uses his will to choose God’s will over his own. In otherwords he aligns his will with his Fathers will.

Luke 22:42
“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”

So God is our savior because he decided to save us. He then sent his Son into the world to save us and Jesus complied and chose to do his Fathers will. So he too is our savior. God saved us through his son, so they are both our savior. One willed it and the other did the required work. If you re-read Titus 3 4 you will notice that God saved us through Jesus Christ. It was a team effort because God washed us by the rebirth and renewal by his Holy Spirit after Jesus paid the penalty for our sin.

Ultimately it is God who saved us because Jesus did God’s will and not his own will. But God who is the saviour sent his son to save us, just as he sent Moses to save the Israelites. We can even see that Moses was a saviour too, but it was really God who was doing the saving, because God works through vessels of honour.

If Jesus or Moses did God’s will and became saviours, this is not negating that God is our saviour. after all, it was his will that these men followed.

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