Can anyone explain the trinity?

Question

I saw this answer to a similar question by someone:

To make it simple:- Jesus is 2nd in the trinity, father being 1st, ghost being 3rd. each is god. jesus is father and son, the ghost is neither father or son but both. the son was begotten by the father but existed before he was begotten. the ghost preceded from the father & the son but was equal to the father and son before he existed but he is the same age as the other two as they are the same god so it is declared the father is god, son is god, holy ghost is god and these three gods make one god. so according to celestial mathematics once one is three, and three time one is one and if we take two from three one is left with two remainder and if we add the two to one instead of three we get one. and then we wonder WTF!!!!

Is it any suprise Augustine said it was irrational (while still believing it)

Answer 1

No.

Answer 2

The Father created the Son and (maybe) the Holy Ghost (maybe it was Jesus?) before the world was made.

Jesus is called our father because Jesus made heaven and earth and everything that is in them (as the Father showed Him), so Jesus is also our Father as well as our creator.

They are the same age because there was no time before creation, just eternity.

Jesus is God because the Father has given Him all power and authority in Heaven and earth (apparently also to the Holy Ghost).

They are three separate entities, but in one perfect accord.

Answer 3

The belief of 3 gods in one body is beyond paganism, even the pagans believe that their gods each have their own bodies.

The trinity is not true, the concept of 3 gods in one body is fiction, plain and simple.

The Bible talks of a Godhead, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Testifier. Each one is a God in their own right, but they are three distinctive persons, The Father and the Son have bodies of Flesh and Bone. While the Spirit is just that a spirit.

Answer 4

So do you believe there are three gods or one. father, son, holy ghost are titles gods name is Jesus. The holy ghost is a portion of gods spirit we get when we get the holy ghost to help us be good saints. God clothed himself in flesh and walked amongst us so he could see why we were having such a hard time serving him he found out and the old testament laws changed. Oh and while he was in the flesh he was the son of god. When he went back to heaven he was god again only now god has a form. When the great white throne judgment comes you will not see this Invisible Being, This Man, and Another Invisible Being you will see Jesus just one and then he'll send you to heaven or hell.

Answer 5

There is only One SPIRIT, not 3, There is no 3 persons in the Godhead, But 3 offices in the Godhead, God is not a person, but a spirit, There is no 1, 2 ,3 BUT ONE. God the creator, as one office, God IN his Son reconciling the world unto himself, the 2nd office & God the Holy Ghost #3 office, but by the selfsame spirit, God is & has always been a spirit, There is one God & Lord, not 3. The trinity belief is that there is 3 perons in the Godhead, making all 3 co-equal. Then they would have to have 3 Gods, that is pagan worship. There is only ONE SPIRIT, ONE GOD, ONE LORD. But God puts himself in 3 offices. Example I am a husband, I am a brother, & I am a son, But I am the one selfsame spirit, So we have GOD as the creator, God IN his SON redeeming the world back to himself, & God as the Holy Ghost, all by the same spirit. Trinity actually came into existane around 312 AD from the Catholic Church. No Apostles of Old ever taught that there was 3 different persons or spirits. GOD IS A SPIRIT & NOT A PERSON.

Answer 6

Trinity is the three that makes up man. SPIRIT, BODY AND SOUL. The spirit is what in reality is life, the body is what demonstrates life, the soul is the recording of our lives. If the trinity was the father, son and the holy ghost why not worship the father instead of the son. Why the middle man? To simplify it more think of light bulb: electricity- spirit (cant see it), light bulb-body(helps you see it in other words demonstrates),and soul the grounding so the bulb doesn't burn out.

Answer 7

The trinity is a lie perpetrated by the church to try to explain God. Jesus never claimed to be God! He claimed to be the son of god and the son of men. If you research the trinity in the bible it doe's not support it and many Christan's were killed when they came up with it for rejecting the idea.

Answer 8

This is a way too simplification of the concept, but:

Can you identify within yourself that you are mind, body, and spirit?

(That's an earthly form of a trinity.)

Now... which one of them is not you?
None, they are all "you."
Your mind; your body; and your spirit.
All are a vital part of who you are.

If man is made in God's image (Genesis 1), then should not He also be referred to as a Trinity?
Father as an entity capable of generating thought and will.
Son as that part of God that can manifest Himself physically.
Spirit as that part of God that accomplishes the completion of God's thoughts to the Body manifestation.

Answer 9

There is a "Godhead" which is a mystery. The mystery involves the fact that the Godhead is three entities: God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost; However, it is still just one entity: God. Thats it. Its a mystery taken on faith by believers.

Answer 10

I hope this will make it clearer to you:

"Trinity" is a term that is not found in the Bible but a word used to describe what is apparent about God in the Scriptures. The Bible clearly speaks of God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit...and also clearly presents that there is only one God. Thus the term: "Tri" meaning three, and "Unity" meaning one, Tri+Unity = Trinity. It is a way of acknowledging what the Bible reveals to us about God, that God is yet three "Persons" who have the same essence of deity.
Some have tried to give human illustrations for the Trinity, such as H2O being water, ice and steam (all different forms, but all are H2O). Another illustration is an egg having a shell, egg yolk and egg white, but this egg illustration shows that there would be "parts" to God, which isn't the case.

God the Son (Jesus) is fully, completely God. God the Father is fully, completely God. And God the Holy Spirit is fully, completely God. Yet there is only one God. In our world, with our limited human experience, it's tough to understand the Trinity. But from the beginning we see God this way in Scripture. Notice the plural pronouns "us" and "our" in Genesis 1:26 -- Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

Though not a complete list, here is some other Scripture that shows God is one, in Trinity:

"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!" (Deut. 6:4)

"I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God." (Isa. 45:5)

There is no God but one. (1Cor. 8:4)

And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased." (Matt. 3:16-17)

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." (Matt. 28:19)

Jesus said: "I and the Father are one." (John 10:30)

"He who has seen Me has seen the Father." (John 14:9)

"He who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me." (John 12:45)

If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. (Rom. 8:9)

"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit." (Matt. 1:20)

And the angel answered and said to her [Mary], "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son of God." (Luke 1:35)

[Jesus speaking to His disciples] "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you." ... "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode with him." (John 14:16-17, 23)


For the essence of God being simple and undivided, and contained in himself entire, in full perfection, without partition or diminution, it is improper, nay, ridiculous, to call it his express image, (charaktes.) But because the Father, though distinguished by his own peculiar properties, has expressed himself wholly in the Son, he is said with perfect reason to have rendered his person (hypostasis) manifest in him.

Bless you my son, Bless me with the best answer vote.

Answer 11

You are thinking way to hard. They are one in the same - just different names. It's like a person being a husband, father, son, grandson etc. The person is still one person with a lot of labels!