i keep hearing about the holy trinity - what is it?

Answer 1

Unfortunately it is just another fabricated doctrine that religions have adopted. The Bible says that there is only One God and that he has a Son called Jesus and that The Holy Spirit is his active force. The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.”—(1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.

In The Encyclopedia Americana we read: “Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching.”—(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.

Answer 2

The Holy Trinity in the Catholic religion is the Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost.

Answer 3

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit is like the soul, the body and the works in one single person.

Swedenborg states:

"The idea of God, with all conception of Him, having been thus rent asunder, it is my purpose to treat, in their order, of God the Creator, of the Lord the Redeemer, and of the Holy Spirit the Operator, and lastly of the Divine trinity, to the end that what has been rent asunder may be again made whole; which is done when the reason of man is convinced by the Word and by light therefrom that there is a Divine trinity, and that the trinity is in the Lord God the Savior Jesus Christ, like the soul, the body, and what goes forth from these, in man; and that thus this article in the Athanasian Creed is true:"

"In Christ God and man, or the Divine and the Human, are not two, but are in one person; and as the rational soul and the flesh are one man, so God and man are one Christ." -- True Christian Religion n.4[3]:

Answer 4

The trinity is like an egg : shell, white and yolk yet when they are put together they are called an egg.

The Trinity is the same Father Son and Holy Spirit Joined together we call it GOD

Answer 5

A logical explanation of the Divine Trinity is that they are the three most advanced Souls in the Universe who, upon reaching Divinity, will become One God. There are three such Souls, because no one Soul can acquire all the attributes involved. The first Soul already having reached Divinity, is the wisest and the most just of all Souls. The second Soul reaching Divinity (incarnated as Jesus Christ) is the most compassionate and caring of all Souls. And the third Soul on its way to Divinity is the most brave Soul in the Universe. The three Souls complement each other in perfection.

If this topic interests you, please click on "Rational Spirituality" on the Dhaxem website, and read the entire concept. It makes perfect sense.

Answer 6

The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Answer 7

Why I can't believe in the trinity.

The royal we, idea to Genesis 1:26 and 3:22,

If Jehovah talked with the royal we or us, etc, why did He only do it only 4-5 times.

Why didn’t He or doesn’t He continue to do to so through out the bible.

Why didn’t He use the royal we at Gen. 1:29, 30 only 3 verses later, or Gen. 2:18, Gen. 3:11, 15
and through out the rest of the bible? Why at Isa. 6:8, does Jehovah say “Whom shall I send”?

Job 38:4-7 shows that the angels were existing at the creation of man, so Jehovah wasn’t alone and had many spirit creatures to talk to.

Instead, which sounds more real and truthful, that Jehovah was talking to someone who is His Master Worker, His Firstborn Son, His Faithful Witness, who is His image, His exact representation, OR He was talking to Himself. (Prov. 8:30; Heb. 1:3; Col 1:15)

Bible scholar Donald E. Gowan said “There is no support in the O[ld] T[estament] for most of the proposed explanations: the royal ‘we,’ the deliberative ‘we,’ the plural of fullness, or an indication of a plurality of persons in the Godhead.

Why does the word Elohim according to Strong’s Cyclopaedia, when it applies to Jehovah means Supreme God, not Gods? Even when this word is applied to Moses (Ex. 4:16 & 7:1) it doesn’t mean that there are 3 Moses, it doesn’t even mean there are 2 Moses.

(Side point when Jesus said if you see me you see the Father, it is because he is the image of God, the exact representation of his Father. When you see an image in a mirror you are seeing a representation, not the actual person. Col 1:15)

(Side point, According to my college dictionary, begotten means “to be born”, to be born means “brought into life or being” when was Jesus brought into life, when he came to life as a baby? No, as Jehovah’s Firstborn of creation Col. 1:15; Rev 3:14)

Answer 8

In verse 1--at the very beginning of his gospel--John grapples with one of the deepest mysteries of God: the Trinity. He says, “the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

At this point, a problem arises. What John is saying is that the Word is distinct from the Father--two separate Persons. Yet there is a mystery here as well, for John also indicates that the Word was so intimately involved with the Father that their thoughts and their purposes were one. That is what Jesus himself said in John 10:30: “I and the Father are one.”

Is Jesus saying that He and the Father are one and the same? Some people are understandably confused on this point. “How, could both Jesus and the Father be God?” they ask. “How could the Son be His own Father?” The confusion lies in the meaning of the word one. Some people think that when Jesus says, “I and my father are one,” He means they are one and the same. But they are not. They are two separate persons.

What does the word persons suggest to you? Does it suggest physical bodies? The fact is, bodies are not essential to persons. Our essential nature is not that of a physical body, but that of a spirit. The essence of a person is not a head, trunk, limbs, and organs. The essence of a person is that person's “I-ness,” that person's awareness, feelings, motives, loves, desires--all the intangible yet utterly real aspects that make up a unique self, a personality.

In verse 1, John declares that the eternal Son, Jesus, was a person, and the Father was a person, and they were one in purpose and action.

The final line in that verse is a blunt and astonishing statement: ”and the Word was God.” No doubt about it! Some religious sects, such as Jehovah's Witnesses and the Unitarians, deny this great truth that Jesus was God. They try to dilute the power of this statement by reinterpreting those words or by explaining them away. For example, Jehovah's Witnesses take the position that John is saying, “Jesus was a god,” not, “Jesus was God.” They suggest that John was introducing a concept bordering on polytheism, the belief in many gods, and that Jesus was just one among them.

Yet there is no other way to translate these words without violating the laws of Greek grammar and the theological statements of other Scriptures. John is taking great pains to make his point clear, and the point is this: There is only one God, and Jesus was one with that God, and Jesus was God.

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Many have tried to draw a picture of God to help people understand the Trinity, our Christian God in three Persons. (The word Trinity is really just a brief way of saying “tri-unity” or “three-in-one.”) For example, C. S. Lewis, in his book Miracles; said that God “contains ‘persons’ (three of them) while remaining one God, as a cube combines six squares while remaining one solid body.”7 This picture helps somewhat, but falls far short (as Lewis himself would admit) of ever completely encompassing the incredible mystery of the Trinity.

“This is the deep end of theology, no doubt,” writes J. I. Packer, “but John throws us straight into it.... John sets the mystery [of the Trinity] at the head of his gospel because he knows that nobody can make head or tail of the words and works of Jesus of Nazareth till he has grasped the fact that this Jesus is in truth God the Son.”

- Ray C. Stedman
http://www.raystedman.org/john/john.html

Answer 9

The combination of The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. They have many names but are one God.
God promised Adam that he would come back in the flesh and shed his blood to save Adam's descendants. Thus the Son and Father and Holy Spirit are one.

Answer 10

The trinity is really a pagan conception. But the triune is what we really should be thinking about Many people have no Idea of what a triune is. But a trip to your local library and your bible can explain it all to you in a perfect way. Do you know that the trinity has never been written or explained in the bible why? Because it is really a man made term and it has no truth to it at all.....................................