How many here believe in the trinity? AND, would you care to try to explain it?

Question

Put down what you think, how you perceive it.

Answer 1

I attended catholic school for many years and I dont know what "the Holy Spirit" actually is. I hope someone who knows answers so I can find out.

Answer 2

To understand this better chart it out or use a diagram of two triangles of equal proportions like the Star of David. This allows an easier understanding of the relationship between the Essence and Existence of a thing. The words following should be distinguished in the following categories: Physical, Mental, and Spiritual. These three words encompass everything in the Universe and make up the CREATIVE PROCESS to help describe the Creator, creatures, and creation.

God is spirit. He cannot be seen. If you were to examine all the creatures, the CREATOR has made a pattern emerges: angels and demons are intellectual creatures without a body; plants and animals do not have an intellect but a body and mortal soul. IT IS ONLY LIVING, HUMAN, BEINGS, that have a MIND, BODY, and SOUL. Only human beings have all three. Now, living, human, being is the existence of man. Those words describe the essence of man's mind, body, and soul. The Body is living, the Mind makes us human and distinguishing us from animals, and our Soul makes us the being that we become (good or evil).

Now, even Muslims will agree Allah is omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnipresent (ever present). These words describe the existence of God. So, what is the essence of God? I will hold off answering this question till the end.

Now, if you think about the existence of a person they have a triple existence: physical (body), mental (mind), and spiritual (eternal soul). In fact, whenever we create something it has all three of these parts. When we cook we have a recipe (in our mind), we gather all the raw ingredients, and we cook (don't burn it, ha ha) what it is we are making. Cooking has the physical, mental, and spiritual parts. Same with engineering or technology it has three parts: the blueprints (to convey an idea), the raw materials (physical), and the workmanship (spiritual). If something goes wrong investigators will look for a design flaw, material flaw, or faulty workmanship. THIS DEMONSTRATES CREATION HAS THREE PARTS LIKE THE CREATOR.

Now, in the Bible it says Jesus is the visible likeness of the invisible God. (Colossians 1:15) The ESSENCE OF GOD IS: Father (mental), Son (physical), Holy Ghost (spiritual). ONE TRUE GOD IN THREE JUST LIKE A PERSON. THREE PARTS ONE PERSON. When you are sick you send for a doctor; when you are mentally troubled, a psychiatrist; when spiritually seeking you seek out a holy person.

I can go into a lot more details and have charts and diagrams to explain these concepts. This should do for now.

Answer 3

I do believe in the Trinity. Of course, there is no verse that contains the word 'Trinity', nor is there any one verse that in and of itself 'proves' the Trinity's existence.

However, if you read the entire Bible carefully, you will notice:

1) There is someone called variously 'God', 'the Lord', 'YHWH' in the Old Testament (i.e. Hebrew Scriptures), and it is clear that the Person referred to in the so-called New Testament as 'the Father' is that Person.

2) There are verses in the Old Testament which describe YHWH, and clearly refer only to Him, which are quoted in the New Testament - and in that context clearly describe and refer to Jesus, who is also called 'the Son'.

3) The Spirit of God appears in both the Old and the New Testaments, and particularly in the New Testament, if we examine its statements concerning the nature of the Spirit, it turns out that that nature includes a mind, a will, and emotions. In other words, the Spirit of God turns out to be a Personal Being, not just some kind of 'force'.

There are those who like to picture their relationship as follows: God the Father is 'God above us', God the Son is 'God with us', and God the Holy Spirit is 'God in us'.

For the more mathematically-minded, there are those who try to claim that saying that all three of these are one God is like claiming that 1+1+1=1. I would phrase it differently: x+x+x=x. And there are indeed two cases where this equation is true:

where x=0, which would give us a result that there is no God at all, or

where x=infinity, which gives us a result that God can have as many 'parts' as He likes and still be One. Glory to Him!

Answer 4

Well, I believe in God as a Father, and my GOD, in Jesus as a King and a Son, and a Holy Spirit as a God's Force, but I don't believe Jesus is God, see those scriptures in the Bible (John 1:18; 5:19; 8:42; 12:49; 14:28; 17:3) Why many Bibles don't say the name Jehovah in the new testament, but in the old testament???? Why someone try to hide and don't say that name??? I think you investigate in this...

Answer 5

I am not Catholic, but I believe in the trinity in a more general spiritual way. I feel that the stages of life and nature are symbolically represented rather well in a trifold concept. It's easy to understand and explain the phases of the moon, for example, and to think about life in that fashion. A lot of this comes from my Irish-American background.

Answer 6

I believe in the Trinity and this is how I percieve it (remind you that everyone seems to have a way they seem to understand it)

God created man in His own image, we do not look alike, we do not possess His qualities so how are we like Him? We are also individual Trinities (3 in 1)

I am body mind and spirit, I am a trinity too. All are different parts of me but all equally me. My body doesnt always do what my mind says, my mind conflicts with my spirit sometimes, but God's blody mind and Spirit are in agreement. I see Jesus praying to the Father like this: Sometimes my flesh doesnt want to do what my mind and spirit knows I have to do so I may ask myself "Do I HAVE to do this?" And even when my body is sick, or if it I couldnt move a muscle, my mind and spirit can still be perfectly intact.

Answer 7

Sure do. It is the Maiden, Mother and Crone. It is the triple aspected goddess. The maiden represents the beginning of life youthfulness and all things new. The Mother represents the nurturing aspect, furtility and growth. The Crone represents wisdom at the end of life, the last stage of life and all things venerable, the inevitability of death.

I know that you weren't expecting that but Christians aren't the only ones with a trinity... :-)

Answer 8

Jesus is God, the Son, also known as the WORD of God. The Gospel of John starts with, In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD was GOD. John also tells us just a few verses later, the WORD became flesh and dwelt among us ..... that would have been Jesus.

We also see in scripture that all things were made through Him (Jesus) so when we see in Genesis at the beginning of time in creation where God SAYS, Let there be light....and God SAYS...let Us make man in OUR image...and God SAYS..etc,etc.. When God SAYS...it is God's WORD...which is God, the SON...who became Jesus when he took on flesh.

And to realize when God "Breathed" life into Adam we see the complete Holy Trinity right in the first few verses of the Bible's first Book, Genesis. The original hebrew word for Spirit (or Holy Spirit) also means wind or breeze which goes along with breath or breathed....God's Breath.

God the Father (the Godhead) created all things through God the Son, the WORD of God who later became flesh to complete the New Covenant, and God, the Holy Spirit, the animating force of life and spirit.

Answer 9

Yes, I do. The best way to explain it is from a friend i knew in USA who said (quote) "...its like baking a cherry pie and slicing it three ways. The crust on top represents the trinity - God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and The Holy Spirit - three individuals, but when u look inside its all one cherry pie - they work concurrently with each other."
I hope that gives you some idea.

Answer 10

I believe in the Trinity and like how St. Patrick described it.

If you pick a clover you have one clover, yet it is divided into 3 parts. The three leaves represent the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The one clover is the three equaling one God.

Answer 11

I believe although the Bible doesn't say the word "trinity," it is our name for something the Bible does teach: that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct personas but one God.

John says "In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the Word was God." (It becomes evident later that the "Word" being referred to is Jesus Christ.)

Philippians says Jesus was equal with God. But clearly, as he prayed in John 17, he was one with God: not a second God.

Like many things of God (infinity, lack of time, omniscience), it is something I cannot fully understand. But I do believe Jesus is Lord, as the Bible teaches. And the Lord God is One.

If I truly believe God is all-powerful (which I do), then it's not such a stretch to believe that He chose to come to earth in bodily form (which he called His Son, Immanuel, God With Us), and now resides in the hearts of his people in Spirit form, while still sitting on His throne in heaven. His ways are far above my ways.