Where do you stand on the Holy Trinity? Are there 3 or is there one?

Question

Just some opinions or supportive info on your feeling. Is there one God above all. Did God present himself in the flesh as Jesus to better relate to humans? Are God Jesus and the Holy Spirit 3 different thing? if so please explain? Which do you believe

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Scriptures alone quite plainly demonstrate that Jesus and the Almighty are separate distinct persons, and the Almighty created Jesus as His firstborn son.

(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation

(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.

(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God

(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God

(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth

(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak

(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am

(1 Corinthians 15:28) 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

(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father

(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God

(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.

(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah

(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him

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Answer 2

There are 3 persons in the Godhead but only one God. I know that sounds like a contradiction but logically it's not. If I were to say there were 3 Gods and at the same time only one God then that would be a logical contradiction. If I were to say there were 3 persons in the Godhead and at the same time just one person then that would also be a logical contradiction. But to say 3 persons in the one Godhead is not a logical contradiction. It may be hard to understand but not a contradiction.
Critics make a point of computing the mathematical impossibility of believing there is Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the Godhead, without holding that there are 3 Gods. Does 1+1+1=3? It certainly does if you add them but christians insist that the triunity of God is more like 1 times 1 times 1 = 1. God is triune not triplex. His one essence has multiple centers of personhood. Thus there is no more mathematical problem in conceiving the trinity than there is in understanding 1 cubed.
You have a lot of paradoxes in the christian religion such as free will versus predestination, the Trinity, the dual nature of Jesus(both God and man) and many others that you don't see in the other religions. If God is an infinite mind and we are finite minds you would expect those paradoxes. There would just be,of necessity, some things that God would have to say "your finite minds just aren't going to understand this right now so you'll just have to wait until you get to eternity to understand it so just trust me on this". The doctrine of the Trinity doesn't cause me to think the bible is not of God. On the contrary, It convinces me that this book is not of men but of God. No man would have ever come up with a concept so philosophically complex as the Trinity.

Answer 3

If i am the creator of lets say a car, and if there is something wrong with the car, to correct it since I am the designer I have very many ways. but definitely not to become a car myself.

That is the christian concept of God, to correct humans God came as a human. then the confusion of Gabriel, being the angel who was a medium arose, so they amalgamated the three.

God became the holy ghost then became jesus. Thats trinity. Sounds ridiculous. This metamorphasis of god is actually hilarious.

God is one,
Read the Quraan, (chapter 1.versus 1 to 3))
All Praises be to Allah, who is the lord of the unverses.
Who is the most gracious and the most Merciful.
who is the Soveriegn of the day of judgement.

Quraan (chapter CXII. Versus 1 to 4)
Say thou, that Allah is the only one.
Allah The independant
He neither begets nor is he begotten.
There is none equal to Allah.

This concept of unity is the basic islaamic faith and differs from the christian concept of God. In Islaam God has been accorded the purity that he rightly should be recognised by.

The Quraanic version of the birth of jesus is more or less the same except that the Quraan is more respectful of Mariam, (mary) and does occord divinity to Jesus as a gift from Allah and refers to Jesus (may peace be upon him) as Roohullah, Or the spirit of Allah. and calls him a messenger like those that passed before him,

Even Mohammed (peace be upon him) was a messenger and of flesh and blood, a human, like all other prophets before him. bringing the same message and reiterating that god is one. and he alone should be worshipped.

Answer 4

There is one Almighty God (the Father), one mighty god (the Son), and one god (the Holy Spirit).

A god and mighty god is created and receives its power from an Almighty God, a title which is never used in any Bible in reference to Jesus or in his pre-existence as the Word. The Holy Spirit is never referred to as either a mighty god or almighty god.

The Apostle John made it a point to use a different Greek spelling for the title word god, when referring to Satan, men, and the Word, than what he used in reference to Almighty God.

Also, the word LORD and Lord are spelled differently. LORD is spelled YHWH in the oldest scrolls.

The Bible teaches there is only one "Almighty" God. So, make up your own mind about which is right.

Answer 5

The term trinity is not biblical

The proper Biblical term is the Godhead.

Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are called the Godhead. They are unified in purpose. Each has an important assignment in the plan of salvation. Our Heavenly Father is our Father and ruler. Jesus Christ is our Savior. The Holy Ghost is the revealer and testifier of all truth.

All are separate persons. Jesus did not pray to himself.

Answer 6

Yes it is God the father the creator. Then the son which was Jesus. Then the holy spirit which dwells within the believers. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In essence they all exist as one.

Answer 7

I think this quote sums it up best..

"Christ according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the holy Ghost the third. Each of these three persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father and Son, but was an equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say before he existed, but he is of the same age as the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity." - Robert G. Ingersoll [1833-1899]

Answer 8

the Christians hold that God gave his only begotten son.they specify begotten not made in their catechism.they claim this begotten son is God.if God is truly God than He doesn't need to turn into a human to get you to relate.for He can do anything.Christianity is a religion of emotion,not Intellect.you cant intellectually believe that God is three but really one.we all went to school.1+1+1=1? cmon,God is not the author of confusion.where was that teaching in the times of abraham,moses?that teaching became law at the council of nicea.and if you didnt follow that law you the christian was branded a heretic,renegade from the religion,an apostate. your end was brutal and certain.so most christians fell in line with the new status quo.look it up.its no secret.so this is something strange and new to the believers in one 'true' God

Answer 9

The Romans needed a god-man so they invented the trinity and made Jesus a member. Jesus was human like the next guy. And yes, he did have sex with his wife MM and that's what men are sort of supposed to do (in fact that's why they have a penis).

Answer 10

Here is what I found for you. Hope it helps.


"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)