Christians: How do you describe the trinity?

Question

I think of the trinity like the analogy of water, ice and vapor. All different forms of water, but the same substance. How do you describe it?

Answer 1

Kinda like a Twix Bar.

The chocolate, the caramel, and the cookie. All are really great apart and can set the standard for goodies, but together they are outstanding. Worthy of your praise.

Answer 2

Stupid! That is so rediculious. When the bible clearly states in Col 1:15 and Rev 3:14 That Jesus was the first of his creations.
The Almighty has always been here and someone had to be first.
It was Jesus> by means of him all other things were created in heaven and earth. By using this holy spirit. It is a force that was poured out on 120 disciples. That is so stupid water, ice, vapor??? Read the bible and quite adding stuff.
Satan wants to be worshiped with God and Jesus probably created third why he got to be the coverning chereb.
He has this 3 gods thing in every society. He wants to be the third person of the trinity. So by using the trinity you are worshiping satan. Jas

Answer 3

God is the Father. Jesus the earthly name of God's only begotten Son. Through God's Son, before His earthly manifestation as Jesus, all things were created, ("Let Us create man in Our own image"). So in many instances we do refer do Jesus as God. The Holy Spirit has come to those who accept Christ as their Lord and Savior and has come to guide you into all truth.

In short, I believe that both the Son and the Holy Spirit come from the Father. Which means that they are of the Father, not the Father themselves. All answer to the Father and then the Son.

I think the term "Trinity" is a cheap construct and may be misleading. I know of no human words or relationships that can adequately describe that of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Answer 4

Well, it's a misinterpretation of the Bible that basically reduces Jesus a schizophrenic ventriloquist who used cheap parlor tricks to put on a lights/effects show for the people to believe him.

I mean think about it. Is Jesus, God and the Holy Ghost really the same person? Can they be? When Jesus was baptized, was he just throwing his voice up into the sky and projecting his power into the form of a dove? When he prayed for his disciples...was he praying to himself or his alter ego or something? When he prayed that his disciples could "be one even as the Father and the Son are one" was he praying that they would be magically morphed into one individual?

Of course not. Jesus, Heavenly Father, and the Holy Ghost are separate beings. One in purpose, but not the same individuals.

Answer 5

The thing is the trinity is a difficult concept to to put into words. For unbelievers it is impossible to understand because they won't get it, no matter what you say. There's even people that call themselves Christian that don't believe in the Trinity. That is because they aren't Christians...if they were the Lord would have revealed this basic fact to them. So describing the Trinity to someone that is not a believer is futile.

Answer 6

If you have to do all that to describe something then its a manmade docterine.Paul saus in the book of Timothy 3:16 to explain the mystery of godliness(GODHEAD) Great is the mystery of godliness,God was manifested in the flesh,seen of angels,justified in the spirit,preached among gentiles and received up into glory.

So Jesus Christ is God almighty in flesh and there is no such thing as a Trinity

Answer 7

A concept that originated in ancient Babylon to mislead people into false worship, adopted by the Catholic Church in the 3rd or 4th century, to make the name of YHWH/Jehovah obscure.

YHWH the Holy Spirit, created Jesus, Proverbs 8:22-3, 2Cor.3:17.

Answer 8

I recently read a very good chapter in a Book on this. The book was 41 Major Bible Themes, Simply Explained by Herbert Lockyer.
One of the several ways he described it was as the human body: Soul, spirit and physical body. All 3 separate yet all 3 one.

Answer 9

I never thought of that analogy. That's pretty cool. To be honest I don't think of trying to understand the trinity. I think that it is belong my understanding. I try to keep it simple. Like Jesus said..love God and do unto others...

Answer 10

They are ONE in agreement, mind, and spirit...but they are under the subjection of God, first. They are three which make up a God HEAD. Imagine a drop of water, add another drop, and then another drop. You still have three drops of water, but they are ONE, together.

John the Apostle, tells it best....God is the Father, the one who begets, Jesus is the Word of God, the begotten of God, and the Holy Spirit is the TRUTH of those words. They are three, yet, they are one in agreement, unity, idea, purpose. They exist outside, physically of each other.