2006-09-10 10:27:05 · 22 answers · asked by Nan 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
is it 3 beings or just 1 being?
2006-09-10 10:40:03 · update #1
i was always told that trinity believes god the father ,the son of god,and the holy ghost. 3 godhead however 3 are saparate, not one. that is what trinity is to me.
2006-09-10 10:52:09 · update #2
Nancy,
A term used since A.D. 200 to denote the central doctrine of the Christian religion. God, who is one and unique in his infinite substance or nature, is three really distinct persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The one and only God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Yet God the Father is not God the Son, but generates the Son eternally, as the Son is eternally begotten. The Holy Spirit is neither the Father nor the Son, but a distinct person having his divine nature from the Father and Son by eternal procession. The three divine persons are co-equal, co-eternal, and consubstantial and deserve co-equal glory and adoration.
We need to know how we are created in God's image to grasp the concept of the Holy Trinity and I think your question is a good one.
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.
2006-09-10 10:34:35 · answer #1 · answered by Search4truth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three Divine Persons, one divine nature. One God. Not Three.
The Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Spirit is God but not three Gods but one God.
Each Person is fully God and does not make up parts in the godhead, there's no division in the godhead nor any confusion.
Don't get confused you cannot really fathom it all, it's a mystery.
The greatest holy Mystery of the Christian religion.
2006-09-10 17:39:26 · answer #2 · answered by carl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three persons of the godhead, God the Father, Jesus the son, Holy Spirit.
1x1x1=1
2006-09-10 17:31:25 · answer #3 · answered by darlndanna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read John 1:1 Read The baptism of Jesus matt 3:17 baptism is to be done in the name of the father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Three seperate beings. Matt 28:19
2006-09-10 17:40:07 · answer #4 · answered by leeanndemon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The holy Trinity is God, Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ the messiah.
I believe there are one and the same as in God.
God the son, God the Father and God the spirit.
2006-09-10 17:34:52 · answer #5 · answered by de_dark_angel71 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For Christians, 3 in 1 refers to there being only 1 God (monotheism), but trying to reconcile how there are three persons in this one God, which people recognize as God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
These are three distinct forms, entities, that are seen in scripture, but to be monotheistic and say that there is only 1 God, these three must be the same in 1.
Christians will not usually explain it further than this, and as stated by churches, for example, the Catholic Catechism, it is mystery that we cannot fully comprehend, but must accept that this opposing idea, this condundrum, must be true, because both the three persons, and the one god, are both unequivocal truths.
Church leaders actually say "It's a mystery" and that we aren't supposed to understand it completely. Hope that helped a little :)
2006-09-10 17:34:21 · answer #6 · answered by jarizza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Father God, Jesus Son of God and Holy Ghost .. they are different but the same so they are 3 in 1.
2006-09-10 17:30:00 · answer #7 · answered by lady_4jc 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ever since 325 a.d., Christianity has taught that God, the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are three parts of the Godhead and are somehow all one entitiy. This is a false notion that has been propagated over the centuries to confuse and lead mankind astray. It was not God that put this notion into man's head but the adversary.
The fact of the matter is that God, the Father, is a distinct individual with a corporal body of flesh and bones as tangible as our own. He is a glorified and eternal being. His Son, Jesus Christ, is also a glorified, resurrected, eternal being with a corporal body of flesh and bones as tangible as our own. The Holy Ghost is a spirit being without a corporal body so that He can perform His duty of testifying to the truthfulness of the other two with His spiritual influence over our own spirits. He effectuates spiritual communication, or revelation, to the rest of us. The three of them constitute the Godhead and are one in purpose. Their goal is to teach the truth to all of God's children and to help them to come home to Father's presence. They work together to that end and their success depends on our faithfulness and obedience to what they teach us. Christ prayed that his apostles might be one as He and the Father are one. Thus, the oneness is a unification of purpose and common goal, not of morphing into one entity.
2006-09-10 17:40:26 · answer #8 · answered by rac 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some people also call this the God Head . . .
The Father, The Son & The Holy Spirt ! is what alot of people call the three in one.
2006-09-10 17:30:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct things and yet all the same. Hard for us to comprehend since we can not be 3 at once. Think of it is H2O water, ice and gas(vapor) still H2O but different.
2006-09-10 17:32:44 · answer #10 · answered by Brian W 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋