What is the "Trinity"? Explain please!!?

Question

I just started to hear about this and wanted to know how is this explained. It's kind of confusing :(

Answer 1

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. One God in three divine persons, but still one God.

A way that even a child can understand is to use the example of a Milky Way candy bar. It has 3 ingredients, the caramel, the nougat, and the chocolate covering, but it is one candy bar.

But the Athanasian Creed goes into more theological detail.

THE ATHANASIAN CREED link:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/SOURCES/ATHANASI.TXT

"Then God said: "Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness..." (Emphasis added) -Genesis, chapter 1, verse 26

Answer 2

The Trinity is a Christian belief regarding God. It consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It may be easier to think of the Father as the creator, the Son as the redeemer, and the Holy Spirit as the special, unknown force of God. Some people (such as Mormon's and Jehovah's Witnesses) may tell you the Trinity is unbiblical, but this is not true. The Bible identifies the Father as being God, the Son (Jesus Christ) as being God, and the Holy Spirit as being God. We are also told in the Bible that there is one God, so we must believe that there is a triune (three divine persons, but one God) God whom we worship. I can understand your viewpoint that it is confusing, because it is rather confusing for those who don't understand the Trinity. Eastern Orthodox Christians find it a great thing to meditate (ponder, to wonder about) the mystery of the Trinity, in that they believe you can find peace and tranquility meditating about the Trinity. The Trinity is similarly found in Hinduism's Brahman, which consists of the Creator, the Perserver, and the Destroyer. Judaism and Islam do not believe in the Trinity as they believe God is a unity. So basically that's the Trinity summed up as best I can explain it.

Answer 3

Trinity means 3 of something. The Trinity is God the Father, God the Son and The Holy Spirit. They are all the same person but they have different jobs and characteristics to go with each of those jobs. Like if you had an egg, it has 3 parts too, right? However, each part of the egg (shell, white, yolk) look different and have a different purpose. We refer to God as a person, but he is not a human person like us, so that makes it a little harder to understand how he can be 3 people, but yet be all one person.

Answer 4

According to the Athanasian Creed, there are three divine Persons (the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost), each said to be eternal, each said to be almighty, none greater or less than another, each said to be God, and yet together being but one God. Other statements of the dogma emphasize that these three "persons" are not separate and distinct individuals but are three modes in which the divine essence exists. According to the New Encyclopedia Britannica, "Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament." In other words, it is NOT a Bible teaching.

Answer 5

The doctrine of the Trinity is encapsulated in Matthew 28:19, where Jesus instructs the apostles: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name (singular, not "names") of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."

The parallelism of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit is not unique to Matthew’s Gospel, but appears elsewhere in the New Testament (e.g., 2 Cor. 13:14, Heb. 9:14), as well as in the writings of the earliest Christians, who clearly understood them in the sense that we do today—that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three divine persons who are one divine being (God).

THE WORD "TRINITY" IS NOT IN THE BIBLE

The term “Trinity” was first used around the time of the 12th Pope, St. Soter (166-175), and the 13th Pope, St. Eleutherius (175-189). Theophilus was bishop of Antioch, and used the Greek “trias”, which was Latinized into “trinitas” about A.D. 180. He speaks of "the Trinity of God [the Father], His Word and His Wisdom ("Ad. Autol.", II, 15). The term may, of course, have been in use before his time.

Afterwards it appears in its Latin form of trinitas in Tertullian ("De pud." c. xxi). In the next century the word is in general use.

Just as the term “Trinity” is not found anywhere in the bible, we know that its meaning is explicitly taught.

TRINITY AS FAMILY

Not only are individual persons created in the image of God, but so is the family itself. The human family is the closest analogy that mankind will ever come to concretely understanding the Blessed Trinity.

The creeds teach that while there is one God, He exists in three distinct persons. The bible, on the other hand, reveals that man is made in the 'image of God'. From these two truths, therefore, we can acknowledge that the complete image of God is found in the Triune understanding of Him.

This understanding of His Triune nature is reflected by the human family whose personal relationships approach the likeness of the Trinity.
There are multiple demonstrations of this truth.

Consider the unity of the Trinity which is reflected in the unity of the family. Or the "family of persons" which is found in both. The persons of the Trinity share the 'same substance ' while a human family becomes one flesh: wife with husband and parents with children.

There is also another element in the Trinity that lends itself to human likeness. The Nicene Creed professes this about the Trinity: "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life who proceeds from the Father and the Son."

In Catholic theology, the Holy Spirit is said to proceed from the will of both the Father and the Son, or in other words, through the activity which they engage in, otherwise known as "love".

The Holy Spirit is poured forth through the exchange of love between the Father and the Son. This is why perhaps Jesus says to the Apostles: " Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you." (John 16:7)

In the eternal economy of the Trinity, therefore, a person 'proceeds' from the love between two other persons. And so, the Holy Spirit is love 'proceeding' or 'coming from' the first two persons of the Blessed Trinity.

The human family has a rather striking parallel to this dynamic. The ultimate act of intimacy in a marriage mirrors the eternal exchange of love between the first two persons of the Trinity.

And like the eternal or continual procession of the Holy Spirit in the Trinity, the act of love between a man and a woman causes a 'procession' of another human person (i.e. the birth of a child).

Thus, it is precisely because the homosexual sex act is not ordered to the procession of another person, that it can never be a Trinitarian reflection of the divine essence.

Indeed, the sexual act itself, which is supposed to be a reflection of the Trinitarian relationship, becomes, through the homosexual act, a blasphemy against God since it ends up distorting the Trinitarian image of Him.

The human sexual act either affirms God's image or it distorts it. This is why all forms of contraceptive sex, including the homosexual act, are serious sins: they seek to create God in another image. It is anti-Trinitarian.

Answer 6

The word Trinity is in fact never found in the Bible. Trinity is a word used to describe the union of three divine persons the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in one divinity. All three are one God but three persons. They are not three seperate entities, however. All are God in the same but all have different operations. It does seem a bit contradictory but this is what Christians believe describes God. God the Father who sits in heaven. Christ is the Son who came to earth and died for the sins of those who believe, and the Holy Spirit who lives in the "heart" or "soul" or "inner being" of those who have believed and have accepted Christ as their savior. All three are God but all have different roles.
For a (loose) practical example, look at it like this. Take a person like me. My name is Michael I am married with 1 child. Therefore, I am a father, a son and a husband. But all three are Michael. I am Michael, the father to my son, Michael, the son to my parents and Michael the husband to my wife. My role with each is different but being a husband to my wife does not make me any less a father to my son. I hope that helps make sense.

Answer 7

You can't explain it, because it is false. It is not what Jesus taught. The trinity makes it sound as if God has a bad personality disorder-three people in one. God is the Father and he has a son Jesus. Plain and simple. No confusion. Now we know why so many people do have split personalities.HA God and Jesus are in union with one another, but are very separate beings. I am in union with my husband but that does not mean we are literally one person. It is the same with God and Jesus.

Answer 8

It was explained to me in high school like this: Just as an egg has a shell, the white part of the egg, and a yolk, God consists of three "entities": God the Father, Jesus (God's son in the form of man), and the Holy Spirit which is with believers today.

Answer 9

Trinity Theology. In most Christian faiths, the union of three divine persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in one God. Which is also called as Trine.

Answer 10

The trinity or the Godhead is basically God the father, God the son(Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. They are all the same-but in different forms.

Just like water-theres liquid water, solid water (ice) and gas water(steam)-all the same thing, but in different forms