How is there ONE God If there is a trinity?

Answer 1

three parts in the same Being...we are small so hard for us to grasp it..

Answer 2

The best analogy to understanding the Trinity is the human family. The love between a husband and wife binds them into one flesh. The sex act is intended to reflect the love between the Father and the Holy Spirit, thus you have a Child. Since God is outside of time , the Son has always been there. In the human family, each member has their own distinct personality, but are of the same essence, and so it is with the Trinity. That is why in Genesis God says, "Let US make man our OUR image."

Answer 3

Many have tried to explain this in human terms, but the entire nature of God cannot be explained as He is infinite.

However, there is only one God - He is manifest in the district persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

Some give the egg analogy - there are three parts to an egg, the shell, the yolk and the white - none are the egg in entirety, but all make up the egg. But God is more complex than that. Each individual in the Trinity is fully God, yet all together make up One God.

Answer 4

Within Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity states that God is a single being who exists, simultaneously and eternally, as a perichoresis of three persons (hypostases, personae): Father (the Source, the Eternal Majesty); the Son (the eternal Logos or Word, incarnate as Jesus of Nazareth); and the Holy Spirit (the Paraclete or advocate). Since the 4th Century, in both Eastern and Western Christianity, this doctrine has been stated as "One God in Three Persons," all three of whom, as distinct and co-eternal "persons" or "hypostases," share a single Divine essence, being, or nature. Supporting the doctrine of the Trinity is known as Trinitarianism. The majority of Christians are trinitarians and regard belief in the trinity as a test of orthodoxy. Other nontrinitarin positions include Binitarianism (two deities/persons/aspects), Unitarianism (one deity/person/aspect), the Godhead (Mormonism) (three separate beings) and Modalism (Oneness) which are held by some Christian groups.

Answer 5

There isn't actually only ONE God, but three. The reference to ONE implys their oneness. They are though, 3 distinct beings. The bible relates this. Sometimes the Bible refers to the "One true God" this simply refers to the Godhead or Trinity, when this is stated in the Bible the story is trying to differentiate between the God of heaven and false gods.

Answer 6

You can have three parts to a whole sandwich.... Same thing works with the trinity vs. God.

Answer 7

The trinity is a concept difficult of understanding. I have been studying it for years and am just beginning to grasp it . For much more see "Urantia Book"

Answer 8

We tend to think in terms of 1 + 1 + 1 for which the answer is obviously 3. The correct way of describing it is 1 x 1 x 1 for which the answer is 1.

Answer 9

There is God, God's Word, that became flesh, Jesus, (he was Man and God for a time) and the Holy Spirit from God, love, inspiration,. Its one God with three attributes.

Answer 10

There is three aspects of one God- the father, son and holy spirit. There all just different parts of God's 'personaity' Good old St Paddy use a shamrock to illustrate this: three parts on the one plant.

Answer 11

God isn't three different people just the different parts..........The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit