The Trinity. How do other Christians perceive the Son, Father and the Holy Spirit?

Question

I find the Trinity confusing with regard to my sense of God and Jesus particularly. I know we are supposed to pray to God, through Jesus. However, when I think about God (as a 3 in 1 Devine being) I have very separate images in my mind such as a human form of Jesus and the ellusive image of a mighty being up in heaven. I hope this makes sense. What I am saying is that despite knowing that all three are one, I still have trouble sensing God as a total being.

Another way of putting it is when you yourself pray how see God in your mind's eye? As three separate beings?
Or one whole being? (And how is that exactly?)

Answer 1

Here I was just taught this and it makes it very simple
Father Son and the Holy Spirit are much like us
We have a Body... Soul and Spirit...
none of them are the same, but they all make up us, who we are. Same for God.
God's body would be like Jesus, the Son
God's soul would be like the Father
God's Spirit would obviously be... the Holy Spirit.
Just like us, none of these things are the same... however all together they make up who God is.

Answer 2

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity states that God is a single Being who exists, simultaneously and eternally, as three persons: the Father; the Son; and the Holy Spirit.

Since the 4th Century AD, in both Eastern and Western Christianity, this doctrine has been stated as "One God in Three Persons," all three of whom, as distinct and co-eternal "persons" share a single Divine nature.

How this works is not fully known and is one the the Christian mysteries.

There is a story told about St Augustine: Augustine was walking along the seashore trying to figure out the mystery of the Holy Trinity and came up to a little boy. The boy was trying to pour the ocean into a hole in the sand with a seashell. Augustine told the boy what he was doing was impossible. Then the little boy told Augustine that it is also impossible for the mind of man to try to understand the mystery of the Holy Trinity. The little boy turned into an angel and disappeared.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

I also find the Trinity confusing and I haven't get it why the church leaders way back in the second century decided to come up with such an awkward idea. Although I declare myself to be a hard core Christian, I've decided that the Trinity is not central to my faith. I understand that God as the person who he or she is, took the initiative to reveal his or her being to humanity, and Jesus (whom I worship as God) brought to the world the most satisfactory revelation of God.

Answer 4

To me the Holy Spirit is the Father, and many times spirit refers to different parts of Him, hands, arm, fingers, or power.

I see Jesus as his Son, the one we must pray through.

Acts 7:55 But he (Stephen) being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and caught sight of God's glory and of Jesus standing at God's right hand.

2Corinthians 3:17 Now YHWH is The Spirit. and where the spirit of YHWH is, there is freedom.

Acts 2:17 'And in the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out MY SPIRIT upon'...

Daniel 7:9,10 "I kept on beholding until there were thrones placed and the Ancient of Days sat down. His clothing was white just like snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool. His throne was flames of fire, its wheels were a burning fire. There was a stream of fire flowing and going out from before him. There were a thousand thousands that kept ministering to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand that kept standing right before him. The Court took its seat and there were books that were opened.'

Answer 5

Genesis 1:28 tells us that God made man in his image.

According to the scriptures, every person has three parts to him: a body, a spirit and a soul. Genesis 2 tells us that God created man from the elements (dust) of the earth, breathed into it the spirit of life, and the results was a living soul.

Each part of man is a "person". Your body is just as much "you" as your mind. But they each are made of a different sustance, for a different purpose to operate in a different realm. Your body for example can not operate in the area of though. That takes a mind (soul).

God is also three "person" in that he operates in different function in different realms. Yet each of the persons is just as much "God" as any of the others. God the Father operates in the realm of heaven with access to all men, God the Son took on flesh and operated in the realm of the physical universe. God the Holy Spirit operates in the realm of the heart of the believers.

They each serve different functions. God the Father is the One who through his love conceived of man and the plan of redemption. God the Son is the one who physically came and performed the plan, and God the Holy Spirit is the one who implants the salvation within our hearts.

While Jesus was on earth, he spoke to his Father, just like you sometimes talk to yourself. He was in the physical realm, and spoke into the spiritual realm. Just like your mind and your body exist at the same time, so do the Father and the Son.

Just as you find it easy to picture your best friends body yeat hard to picture that friend's mind, so we all find it wasy to picture Jesus "in the flesh" yet harder to picture God the Father in heaven.

Answer 6

God truthfully does exist and is truthfully genderless. The writer of all existence, all remember, all existence can not have one absolute gender, yet rather regardless of gender this writer so occurs to choose directly to look as. curiously people who wrote the bible, and/or people who interpreted the bible, observed God as a guy. God is unquestionably neither guy nor woman nor toddler. God is God. and that's that. call God the father in case you like, or Allah, or Jehovah, or Buddha, or regardless of you so desire to call God. A God with the aid of the different call continues to be in simple terms GOD. you may argue approximately it sideways, frontways, backways, any way you desire to. yet as a remember of certainty that we've been all created with the aid of an identical God, no remember what your specific ideals are! till now the creation of all, there replaced into no gender. there replaced into in basic terms God. Gender is a creation OF God, and as a result God will not be able to be constrained to the restraints of one or the different. God isn't transsexual, or asexual. God isn't sexual, that's to assert God isn't a sexual being, and as a result has no want for gender. Gender is for replica and procreation, and God is a writer, not a PROcreator.

Answer 7

God the father sent his son Jesus Christ to earth to die for our sins who also rose from the dead and left us with the Holy Spirit.

Answer 8

i do not believe they are one and the same person...i believe they are one like a man and woman when they marry "and the 2 shall become 1"...i believe the unity of them is in the direction of their ways...
jesus said that the father was greater than he (jesus) was...he prayed to his father (not to himself)...he sits at the right hand of his father (not on the same throne)...

Answer 9

as fantasy objects??