can a christian explain the trinity mythology?

Answer 1

no they can't- at least not using any logic. how can three equal one? it's simple math! they are truly polythiests!

Answer 2

Mythology?? The Trinity to Christians is not mythology. Pick your words carefully. I think you offend Christians by calling their faith in the Trinity mythology. Do you know this? Trinity comes from Christ's words. He was the one who told us about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The Trinity comes to us from the words of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament.

Answer 3

Well I can explain to as much as someone without spiritual understanding can understand the facts concerning the trinity...there is no myth....I...Do you believe that you have a Spirit? If not I cant convince you of any spiritual concepts...If so I would explain that as you have a spirit you are also in the spirit of the trinity being flesh and spirit you are created in the image of God who is trinity...God created your flesh from the ground and breathed in spirit and the two became a living soul.

Answer 4

Agreed; this can't be explained to everyone's satisfaction, but this is how it makes sense for me:

Human analogy: Humans are made up of 3 different components - - body, mind, spirit(soul). All 3 are essential parts to the existence of what we know as "human." Take any one aspect away, and the human ceases to exist.

H20 analogy: Water can exist in 3 different forms - liquid, ice, and steam. All the same substance, just different forms.


God exists in 3 different "roles" - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Same substance, different roles.

The concept most people have difficulty grasping is how the 3 can exist simultaneously while remaining the same single entity. I confess I can't wrap my brain around this one completely. But I do know that God is bigger, greater, infinitely MORE than any of us humans can fully grasp; He can do anything, including exist in 3 distinct "personalities" while remaining the same single entity. I don't mean to use this as a cop-out; I'm not trying to persuade anyone here. This is just how I can accept it while not fully understanding it: it's by faith.

Perhaps it's best if we focus on the WHY rather than the HOW of the issue. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The relationship Jesus modeled between Him and the Father was one of worship and submission. It was to show us our proper position before God. The Holy Spirit is what dwells inside us to change us in ways that make this lifestyle of worship and submission possible and sincere. If you think of the Holy Spirit as "conscience," it's easier to grasp the role. When I sin, do something against God's commands, I feel convicted, or guilty of "my crime." The Holy Spirit keeps me aware of myself and urges me to my knees in the same way Jesus was always on his knees before the Father.

This is how I've come to reconcile the concept. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Q: "What about the doctrine of the Trinity, the Holy Trinity?"
our A: "Trinity" is a term that is not found in the Bible but a word used to describe what is apparent about God in the Scriptures. The Bible clearly speaks of God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit...and also clearly presents that there is only one God. Thus the term: "Tri" meaning three, and "Unity" meaning one, Tri+Unity = Trinity. It is a way of acknowledging what the Bible reveals to us about God, that God is yet three "Persons" who have the same essence of deity.
Some have tried to give human illustrations for the Trinity, such as H2O being water, ice and steam (all different forms, but all are H2O). Another illustration is an egg having a shell, egg yolk and egg white, but this egg illustration shows that there would be "parts" to God, which isn't the case.

God the Son (Jesus) is fully, completely God. God the Father is fully, completely God. And God the Holy Spirit is fully, completely God. Yet there is only one God. In our world, with our limited human experience, it's tough to understand the Trinity. But from the beginning we see God this way in Scripture. Notice the plural pronouns "us" and "our" in Genesis 1:26 -- Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

Though not a complete list, here is some other Scripture that shows God is one, in Trinity:

"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!" (Deut. 6:4)

"I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God." (Isa. 45:5)

There is no God but one. (1Cor. 8:4)

And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased." (Matt. 3:16-17)

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." (Matt. 28:19)

Jesus said: "I and the Father are one." (John 10:30)

"He who has seen Me has seen the Father." (John 14:9)

"He who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me." (John 12:45)

If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. (Rom. 8:9)

"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit." (Matt. 1:20)

And the angel answered and said to her [Mary], "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son of God." (Luke 1:35)

[Jesus speaking to His disciples] "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you." ... "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him." (John 14:16-17, 23)

Answer 6

Well, it's like this. God is everywehre at the same time. So, he can live as a man in the flesh while being everywhere else too. Wehen Jesus left his physical body, his spirit went back to the rest of his body, like all our spirits do when we die. We came from God and when we die, we go back to God. Jesus did say, "There are many rooms in my father's house."

To explain the relationship between the father, son and holy spirit, I see it as kind of like the relationship we have between our conscience and our inner child or more primal self.

Answer 7

YOU GUY's Lost and Saved need to talk to some-body that's actually been to the Third HEAVEN, where the FATHER live's. I am a Child of GOD(Born-Again) and no, I haven't been allowed that privilege. But this guy went and it cleared up alot bout' the Trinity for me.
The FATHER sit's on the THRONE up there, and cept' for HIS Human Body (FATHER has one too!!!) there is massive ENERGY all around HIM (the BIBLE say's GOD is a FLAMING FIRE). When JESUS goes in to BE with the FATHER, JESUS's Body (the ONE that was nailed to the CROSS) dissapear's and there are TWO GREAT FLAMING FIRE's (cept' for the FATHER's Body, that is sitting on the THRONE) and LOVE just FLOW's BETWEEN the two (FATHER and SON). I have alway's thought we were Created in HIS IMAGE and LIKENESS, WE ARE, of the Bodies that the CREATOR took on!!!! That means that the CREATOR is ONE GREAT BIG FLAMING FIRE when ALL THREE of them get TOGETHER, and yet they are ONE.!!! I guess the CREATOR could be 20 MASSIVE FLAMING FIRE's if HE CHOSE to BE!!!!!
HOW you like that??????? Ditto!!!!!!

Answer 8

Father, Son, Holy Spirit Three entities yet one entity
Water, Ice, Vapor hmmmm 3 entities yet all H2O

Answer 9

The best explanation of it I've ever gotten is that God is like a big gooey apple pie. Even when you cut it into three pieces, it's still all really the same thing.

Answer 10

Nope. They can't. Apparently, the fact that they can't explain it shows that it's something that only God really understands. Or some BS explanation like that.

Answer 11

the father, the son, and the holy spirit. they are all God. They are not three forms of God. They are not God in differernt forms. They work through God. It is the pascal mysterey.