Please do not be offended by direct questions on these matters. I'll be separately asking the Catholics soon enough the same question.
2006-07-01 09:07:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Only one person below has tried to answer the Q which is not about the doctrine of the trinity, but about the preachers who speak of the trinity? Can anyone understand the question without bending it to fit personal beliefs which are not at issue in the Q?
2006-07-06 06:23:59 · update #1
Evangelical Christians believe the Bible, and so, One God.
They believe in the Triune God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The Triunity of God can be likened to a plant. Stem, leaf and root consitute but one plant; each has a distinction incommunicable to the other two; none is the plant without the other two; each with the other two is the plant.
Father, Son and Holy Spirit are One God; each has a property incommunicable to the other two; none is God without the other two; each with the other two is God.
2006-07-12 10:18:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some actually believe they are separate entities. It comes from,
1. Not being informed on the Judo-Christian exegesis of the communities that lived, wrote, and carried on the scriptures. Thus they completely miss what is contained in the text.
2. Making assumptions based on their own personal interpretations of scripture.
3. A problem in their metaphysics / philosophy causes them to think that they are separate entities.
4. One can only know God if He allows Himself to be known by you. Because scripture and tradition clearly say God is Trinitarian, and if you disagree and say he is not, either God has not revealed himself to you or you have rejected what was revealed. NOTICE that such people do not say "tradition and scripture say God is Trinitarian but I say they are wrong and God is 3 seperate entities so I am going to teach something else." Rather they take scripture out of context and twist the language to mean what they want it to mean.
2006-07-03 00:57:45 · answer #2 · answered by Liet Kynes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are separate, this is what you call the Trinity, The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.
2006-07-01 16:58:01 · answer #3 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct personalities, yet they are one in essence. That is the best way I am able to define the nature of God. By the way, I am not offended by not fully comprehending how this is possible since I would expect the nature of my Creator to far transcend my understanding. My knowledge of the Lord is limited to what He has disclosed about Himself in the pages of the Bible.
2006-07-13 05:14:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Father designs, the Son carries it out, and the Holy Spirit keeps it going to completion. One work, different aspects.
2006-07-01 16:12:28 · answer #5 · answered by novalee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are speaking of the trinity..God the Father, God the son, and God the holy spirit.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in "OUR IMAGE", after "OUR LIKNESS":( which is of spirit, for God had not made our bodies yet.) and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
2006-07-10 13:32:08 · answer #6 · answered by Carol M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are three separate personalities with unique gifts in one person, God . Triune=three in one. And they speak of them separately because that is how God does it, to separate the gifts each bring to us. I wish I could do better hope that helps take care great question also!â¥
2006-07-01 16:14:59 · answer #7 · answered by momsapplepeye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are separate entities. Except when they are not separate. Go figure.
Well, they'll all answer more or less that the three things are different aspects or facets of the one thing.
2006-07-01 16:14:04 · answer #8 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋