Or do you just accept it and say you're not supposed to understand it? Seems to me that God really would like us to understand Him and all if we're going to try to be more like Him and worship Him and all, right?
2006-10-23 05:12:45 · 14 answers · asked by teethofdoom 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not really. It was a concept that seems to have been forced on the various Christian churches at Nicea so that a concensus could exist among them.
Seems to me that God WANTS us to know and understand him.
2006-10-23 07:17:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are things in life that are triune in nature but one. For example: An egg is one but with three distinctions. You have the yoke, the white, and the shell, but all three composite the one egg. Another example: A piece of fruit such as the peach has three components. A peach has the outer layer (the skin), the inner layer (the juicy stuff known as the meat), and the core. All three components composite the one peach.
Other things that we have in our everyday lives that are triune is water. Water is one substance that can be liquid, gas, and solid distinctly or all at the same. The following quote is from the late Dr. Walter Martin: "It is a well-known fact of chemistry that plain water, when placed in a vacuum under 230 millimeters of gas pressure and at a temperature of 0 degrees Centigrade, solidifies into ice at the bottom of the container, remains liquid in the center and vaporizes at the top! At a given instant the same water is both solid, liquid and gas, yet all three are manifestations of the same basic substance or nature: H2O - hydrogen: two parts; oxygen: one. If one of the simplest of all created substances can be three in manifested form and yet remain one in nature, then the Creator of that substance can surely be Father, Son and Holy Spirit - three Persons and one Nature - without any violation of logic or reason whatever if He so wills."
If an egg, a peach, and water can have three distinct things and all be one at the same time, than the Almighty should have no problem. The word Trinity is way of explaining the belief in one God revealed through three distinct persons. Some people get all hung up on the issue of the Bible teaching there is only one God. No where does the Bible state God is only one person, but it does say God is one in Deuteronomy 6:4. The word for one there is the Hebrew word Echad, which means a composite unity. For examples of this consider Genesis 1:5, Genesis 2:24, Ezra 2:64, Ezekiel 37:17 where the same Hebrew word Echad is used and means one in unity, not in number! The Bible teaches there is one Church but many members and there is no problems with understanding this, yet when it comes to God some seem to have problems.
2006-10-23 05:18:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I understand the concept of the trinity. Its a man made way of trying to explain God.
2006-10-23 05:17:01 · answer #3 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we approach the state of being in which we feel we should, or even think we can understand God, as he is in his fullness, then do we not also approach the same state of being Satan found himself in prior to attempting to be equivalent with God? As a scientist, I find that there is so little that we actually know about our universe; despite the seemingly thorough understanding we have. I would sum our level of understanding at knowing enough to know that we know almost nothing. Yet, at the same time, some would aspire to know, understand and comprehend God as he is. Pride and arrogance are truly tempting sins, are they not?
Peace,
MoP
2006-10-23 05:21:39 · answer #4 · answered by ManOfPhysics 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't find where any of the apostles were arrested and stoned for teaching that Jesus was "God".
I can find where they were arrested in teaching that God has resurrected Jesus,
I can find where the false witnesses testified that Stephen taught against the traditions of Moses.
But nowhere can I find that the Apostles were arrested for teaching Jesus was "God"
If the trinity is so important and that the Apostles taught it, Why weren't they arrested for it?
Why didn't the false witnesses or even true witnesses say, "They are teaching that Jesus is God!"
They were accused of many things in the book of Acts but not that.
2006-10-23 06:32:53 · answer #5 · answered by TeeM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Holy Spirit is Mother, God is Father and I wanna marry the Son and be part of the family.. Mother is doing Her best to guide me back to Her Son and He is doing all that He can Himself, and when we get back together, that is when I remove the chains from Him in my Heart all is well again with the Father as well..No more turning from God to ego-mind, that other guy will be out of the picture that devil,,, Actually yeah wanna be a happy family..Together again//This guy (EGO-MIND) I am seperating from now cannot Love and will never let me be happy.
Cause I belong to the Light
Love
2006-10-23 05:18:00 · answer #6 · answered by Paradise Regained 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because God is not 3 persons. God is ONE. God is the body of Jesus and God is the personality of the Holy Spirit. God is manifested in three ways, not three persons. In the Old Testament God manifested Himself in several different way. In order to be seen God had to have a body, and that body was Jesus. When a person goes to heaven and sees God, He will be looking at the face of Jesus.
2006-10-23 05:23:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I am comfortable with the concept of the Trinity...
like water can be solid, liquid, and gas
2006-10-23 05:18:07 · answer #8 · answered by ! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nope. the trinity is just too complicated to be the GOD, you know. i just believe in one God period and i'll leave it at that. my God is so powerful & large that HE does not need two other parts to him. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! if there are two roads to choose from that get to the same point. one is shorter, will you take the longer more complicated one? many philosophers will concurr that the more simple explanation is closer to the truth.
2006-10-23 05:44:12 · answer #9 · answered by hotpockets122000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would be nice to fully understand Him and all, but where do you draw the line. If God is who he says he is. If He is truly God and above all wisdom knowledge and understanding, then how far do we expect human understanding to take us. If we want full understanding wisdom and knowledge then we want to be elevated above our capacity. There is nothing wrong with wanting that, but if we expect God to be Godly and us to be humanly then we must expect that there will be some mystery and inability on our parts to fully understand God. Does that trouble you?
2006-10-23 05:24:17 · answer #10 · answered by phelix22 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋