2006-09-02 18:54:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That make believe, invisible person up in the sky with super powers.
Sounds stupid, doesn't it?
2006-09-02 18:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by Toronto 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Trinity means 3. God is a trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
There are a lot of Trinity aspects in this world. The egg is a trinity, shell, white and yolk. The orange is a trinity, peel, fruit and seed. They are all just one thing, but with three aspects to each. YOU are a trinity too. You are a SPIRIT, live in a BODY and have a SOUL.
2006-09-03 02:38:09 · answer #2 · answered by kitty K 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible. Jehovah is separate from Jesus and that the holy spirit is God’s active force, not a person.
Mark 13:32 says:
32Â “Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but the Father."
1 Corinthians 15:24, 28 says:
24Â Next, the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power. . . 28Â But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone.
The trinity cannot exist if either of these statements are true. Nowhere in the Bible is the teaching of the Trinity to be found. Yale University professor E. Washburn Hopkins observed: “To Jesus and Paul the doctrine of the trinity was apparently unknown; . . . they say nothing about it.”
Regarding the Trinity doctrine, Biblical scholar Nahmanides declared: “The mind of any Jew or any man will not permit him to believe that the Creator of heaven and earth . . . would pass through the womb of a Jewish woman . . . and [would] later [be] turned over into the hands of his enemies, who . . . killed him.”
The Catholic doctrine of the Trinity, claims that God is three persons in one God. It is an apostate doctrine. It dishonors God. Jesus is not as great as God. He was created. He had a beginning, whereas Jehovah did not. (Psalm 90:1, 2; John 14:28; Colossians 1:15-17; Revelation 3:14)
The Trinity is defined in the Athanasian Creed as the worship of “one God in Trinity . . . The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; and yet they are not three gods, but one God.” Each is said to be eternal, to be almighty, with none greater or lesser than another; each said to be God, and yet together being but one God. Theologians describe it as a mystery.
Regarding the Trinity doctrine, the Augsburg Confession states that “the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,” are “three Persons, of the same essence and power.” Yet the Bible clearly quotes Jesus, the Son, as confessing that “the Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he beholds the Father doing,” indicating his submission to his heavenly Father, Jehovah God.—John 5:19.
The Trinity has its roots in ancient Babylon and was not adopted by so-called Christians until long after Bible writing was completed.John L. McKenzie, S.J., in his Dictionary of the Bible, says: “The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of ‘person’ and ‘nature’ which are G[ree]k philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which these terms and others such as ‘essence’ and ‘substance’ were erroneously applied to God by some theologians.”—(New York, 1965), p. 899.
Jesus and his Father are “one” in that Jesus is in full harmony with his Father. And he prayed that all his followers might likewise be in harmony with his Father, with Jesus and with one another.John the Baptist said that Jesus would baptize with holy spirit even as John had been baptizing with water. Water is not a person nor is holy spirit a person. (Matthew 3:11) What John foretold was fulfilled when God caused his Son Christ Jesus to pour out holy spirit on the apostles and disciples during the day of Pentecost 33Â C.E., so that “they all became filled with holy spirit.” Were they “filled” with a person? No, but they were filled with God’s active force.—Acts 2:4, 33.
Jesus’ follower, the apostle Paul, stated: “I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.” (1Â Corinthians 11:3
2006-09-03 02:50:46 · answer #3 · answered by da chet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trinity is a theological term found nowhere in the Bible which attempts to divide God into three different parts that together form the three part God. This contradicts Scripture. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are all fully God, not three different parts of God. John 1:1 and the Bible
2006-09-03 04:06:57 · answer #4 · answered by PowerfulProphet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trinity means 3 in 1... Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all One. God
2006-09-03 01:56:28 · answer #5 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Trinity is thrid comes after the sequel ex: Blade Trinity
2006-09-03 02:00:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would suggest that you read
"A History of God" by Armstrong
It's a good read and a good starting point. She gives a very unbiased telling of the development of the theology behind the "trinity"....with no "religious" agenda attached...
You are very likely to get "biased" views at this site...
2006-09-03 02:00:38 · answer #7 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Trinity is the the word formally used to the three Persons in One God.
The Father is God.
The Son is God.
The Paraclete(Holy Spirit) is God.
How come we only have One God then?
"ONE" here means "UNITY" and not "SOLITUDE".
The Jewish Shema is found in Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD." The Hebrew word used is "echod" which means "united one" as opposed to "yachid", which means "only one". Another use of "echod" is in "husband and wife...one flesh". We must also remember that in the story of creation God said " Let us make...." and in the Gospel of John he said " In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God" suggesting more than one Person. And in John 20:22–23 "Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained".
The following quotes are from the early Church Fathers regarding the Trinity.
Tertullian
"We do indeed believe that there is only one God, but we believe that under this dispensation, or, as we say, oikonomia, there is also a Son of this one only God, his Word, who proceeded from him and through whom all things were made and without whom nothing was made. . . . We believe he was sent down by the Father, in accord with his own promise, the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, the Sanctifier of the faith of those who believe in the Father and the Son, and in the Holy Spirit. . . . this rule of faith has been present since the beginning of the Gospel, before even the earlier heretics" (Against Praxeas 2 [A.D. 216]).
Athanasius
"[The Trinity] is a Trinity not merely in name or in a figurative manner of speaking; rather, it is a Trinity in truth and in actual existence. Just as the Father is he that is, so also his Word is one that is and is God over all. And neither is the Holy Spirit nonexistent but actually exists and has true being. Less than these the Catholic Church does not hold, lest she sink to the level of the Jews of the present time, imitators of Caiaphas, or to the level of Sabellius" (Letters to Serapion 1:28 [A.D. 359]).
St. Patrick
"[T]here is no other God, nor has there been heretofore, nor will there be hereafter, except God the Father unbegotten, without beginning, from whom is all beginning, upholding all things, as we say, and his Son Jesus Christ, whom we likewise to confess to have always been with the Father--before the world's beginning . . . Jesus Christ is the Lord and God in whom we believe . . . and who has poured out on us abundantly the Holy Spirit . . . whom we confess and adore as one God in the Trinity of the Sacred Name" (Confession of St. Patrick 4 [A.D. 452]).
Fulgence of Ruspe
"See, in short you have it that the Father is one, the Son another, and the Holy Spirit another; in person, each is other, but in nature they are not other. In this regard he [Christ] says, `The Father and I, we are one' [John 10:30]. He teaches us that `one' refers to their nature and `we are' to their persons. In like manner it is said, `There are three who bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, and these three are one' [1John 5:7]. Let Sabellius hear 'we are,' let him hear 'three,' and let him believe that there are three Persons" (The Trinity 4:1 [A.D. 513]).
2006-09-03 03:45:47 · answer #8 · answered by Romeo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The trinity refers to God as father, son, and Holy Spirit.
It's not a word you will find in the Bible, but one that Christians use to describe the Godhead
2006-09-03 01:57:24 · answer #9 · answered by mel 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Three.
2006-09-03 01:57:39 · answer #10 · answered by Mere Mortal 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋