In Luke 3:21-22 it says, "Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased." It doesn't make any sense to me that Jesus when he was baptized descended from heaven upon himself in the form of a dove and then he threw his voice and announced from the heavens that he was pleased with himself. If Jesus is God then he evidently wanted to trick the people witnessing the baptism into thinking otherwise.
I believe God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost to be three seperate beings yet united and one in purpose.
2006-10-17 06:11:12 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yippee,You have that right and please don't let anyone take it from you.God is the Father,Jesus is the word made flesh,not God but the Son of God and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God the very attitude of what God is.
I do understand how people are confused because religion keeps pushing it that Jesus is God and people don't want to find the truth for themselves or they would know what Jesus said.....My Father is greater than I.......In my Fathers house are many mansions etc.When Jesus said he and his Father are one means one in Spirit and that is the way we are to be also.
2006-10-17 06:31:01 · answer #1 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Baptism Of Christ is in all 4 Gospels, & all say the same thing: That the Holy Spirit Came Upon Jesus, & the Father In Heaven Declared Christ His Beloved Son.
Interestingly, the Gospel according to St. Matthew chapter 28 concludes with Our Lord Commanding His Apostles "to go out & make disciples of all nations, Baptizing them in the Name Of the Father, & Of the Son, & Of the Holy Spirit," which is exactly how Baptism is done, right down to this very day.
The Trinity Is Only One God, with Three Divine Persons Co-existing Equally in the One GodHead.
Let me ask you something: Do you believe that there is anything impossible for Our God? Is there any limit to His Awesome Power? The Greatness Of God, is far beyond the human mind can comprehend, & concept of the Trinity acknowledges this Holy & Precious Truth, because it teaches that God, While Remaining One, can at the very same time, Be Three.
And yet, His Divine Nature & Majesty Never Changes.
2006-10-17 06:37:21 · answer #2 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a problem with your characterization of the Trinity.
Jesus did nothing on earth in his flesh body that any other man couldn't do, when appropriately empowered by God.
The miraculous things he did were done by the power of the Holy Spirit, just like all other miracles, before or since, were accomplished.
Besides honoring his cousin John the Baptist, Jesus received a real anointing at his baptism, where the power of the Holy Spirit was applied to his mortal body, in order to empower his flesh to accomplish the plan that God had already determined for him.
It was only after his baptism that Jesus' public life, most of the various miracles he performed, and his passion and death, took place.
2006-10-17 08:27:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Trinity..
Its often explained as a Triangle.
You have Three Points of the triangle.
God The Father
^
Jesus Christ----------The Holy Spirt
All three is God
All three are God.
So is Jesus God, yes. Is he a seperate Person. well Yes.
The Holy Spirt is God? Yes, Is he a Seperate Person..Yes
Is God the Father God, Yes, Is he a Seperate Person...Yes
So all three are God.
But there is One God, with three seperate natures
2006-10-17 06:31:10 · answer #4 · answered by dorf2004 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You statement of faith is VERY much like that of the LDS church. If fact I'll bet that is exactly where you are coming from. In which case I will try to explain this very simply.. The Father is God he is all the God that there is. The Son (Jesus) is God He is all
the God there is. The Holy Spirit is God and again all the God that there is. This is best understood by the mortal mind by looking at Creation. God has reveled Himself to us there as well as in the Bible. The dimension of space are height, width and breadth. Each of these dimensions is infinite and by that definition each contains all space. Yet these dimension make up one space.
God is like that, each is God all the God that can be because He is infinite yet these three are the One true God... Jim
2006-10-17 06:29:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Related to this is the concept of independent "witnesses".
Jesus reminded certain Jewish troublemakers that the Jewish law required judges to accept the testimony of two distinct persons, but the word of just one testifyer was insufficient.
(Deuteronomy 19:15) At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses the matter should stand good. [See also Deut 17:6]
When the Pharisees tried to protest that Jesus' claim to be "the light of the world" must be rejected as the claim of a single person, Jesus reminded them that a distinct, separate person confirmed Jesus' own testimony:
(John 8:17-19) Also, in your own Law it is written, ‘The witness of two men is true.’ I am one that bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
Clearly, such clear logic on Jesus' part would have been significantly muddied if Jesus himself were also claiming to be God. The Jews knew that Jesus never taught that he was God, but rather that Jesus was a separate and distinct person, the Son of God.
Jesus himself is spoken of as a Witness. Just like his first-century apostles and his modernday disciples, Jesus was and is a proud and courageous Witness of Jehovah.
(Revelation 1:5) Jesus Christ, “the Faithful Witness
Learn more!
http://watchtower.org/library/ti/index.htm
2006-10-17 07:43:22 · answer #6 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The place of John the Baptist is one of the great conundrums of Christianity.
Baptism is related to the Jewish practice of the mikvah, the ritual bath taken to remove ritual impurity. Christianity, however, abolishes the concept of ritual impurity and the need for a mikvah except as a one-time rite to remove the stain of original sin.
Traditional Christian dogma holds that Jesus was free of original sin, and thus did not need baptism. Why he underwent baptism is ultimately unanswerable; it is what Catholics term a mystery, something that human words ultimately are not capable of describing.
2006-10-17 07:23:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since God made us as a reflection of Him, try to view God like we view our physical beings: MIND, BODY, & SPIRIT! We can't survive without these 3 componets, right?
SO....
View God's trinity the same way.
MIND = God - Our Father
BODY= God - in human form (Jesus)
SPIRIT= God - as the Holy Ghost/Spirit
Our mind, body, and spirit are 3 different componets, but we are 1 human being.
God, Jesus, & Holy Spirit are 3 different forms of how God showed Himself to us, but He is still considered as ONE GOD!
Try to live without 1 of the 3 componets that you have....You can't! As a believer you have the Holy Spirit living inside your body. The Spirit uses your Body as a temple until it no longer can host it. The things you choose to do with your Body will either give joy or grief to the Spirit inside your Body. Therefore, you must glorify Jesus with your Body while you can. When you die, your Spirit will be reunited with God ONLY if you chose to glorify Jesus while in the Human form.
I hope this helps. God Bless!
2006-10-17 06:56:53 · answer #8 · answered by Krazy K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God.
The Trinity...Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Same as ice, water and steam. Three purposes one thing.
There was no voice throwing or trickery. It is what it is.
God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit - The Trinity.
2006-10-17 06:20:43 · answer #9 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
well. the fact is the people only reads what they want. let explain the reality. Jesus ordered his disciples to baptize in the name of the father, son and Holy ghost, right? and we also know that everything we do should be in the name of the lord, right? now let me give you the example:
I baptize you in the name of the lord, the father, the son and the holy spirit.
as you see you are doing this in the name of the lord and then comes the trinity. got it?
2006-10-17 06:20:30 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋