Lets try a little division:
God = God
Jesus = God plus Man
Jesus / God = 1 remainder Man
Let's try it with the trinity
God specifically stated he is neither man nor the son of man
God = God + Holy Spirit
Jesus = God + Man + Holy Spirit
Jesus / God = 1 remainder Man.
Hmm.
2007-02-23 01:24:08 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here Ill make it easy for you since I see your mathematical skills are not that good. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are one in the same. They are three distinct beings but one. Lets take an ice cube. It is water,ice and steam. All different but yet all the same. Peace out.............
2007-02-23 01:30:50 · answer #1 · answered by powerliftingrules 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
God is a trinity of persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is not the same person as the Son; the Son is not the same person as the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit is not the same person as Father. They are not three gods and not three beings. They are three distinct persons; yet, they are all the one God. Each has a will, can speak, can love, etc., and these are demonstrations of personhood. They are in absolute perfect harmony consisting of one substance. They are coeternal, coequal, and copowerful. If any one of the three were removed, there would be no God. (See also, "Another Look at the Trinity")
Jesus, the Son, is one person with two natures: Divine and Human. This is called the Hypostatic Union. The Holy Spirit is also divine in nature and is self aware, the third person of the Trinity.
There is, though, an apparent separation of some functions among the members of the Godhead. For example, the Father chooses who will be saved (Eph. 1:4); the Son redeems them (Eph. 1:7); and the Holy Spirit seals them, (Eph. 1:13).
A further point of clarification is that God is not one person, the Father, with Jesus as a creation and the Holy Spirit is a force (Jehovah's Witnesses). Neither is He one person who took three consecutive forms, i.e., the Father, became the Son, who became the Holy Spirit. Nor is God the divine nature of the Son (where Jesus had a human nature perceived as the Son and a divine nature perceived as the Father (Oneness theology). Nor is the Trinity an office held by three separate Gods (Mormonism).
The word "person" is used to describe the three members of the Godhead because the word "person" is appropriate. A person is self aware, can speak, love, hate, say "you," "yours," "me," "mine," etc. Each of the three persons in the Trinity demonstrate these qualities.
The chart below should help you to see how the doctrine of the Trinity is systematically derived from Scripture. The list is not exhaustive, only illustrative.
The first step is to establish the biblical doctrine that there is only one God. Then, you find that each of the persons is called God, each creates, each was involved in Jesus' resurrection, each indwells, etc. Therefore, God is one, but the one God is in three simultaneous persons. Please note that the idea of a composite unity is not a foreign concept to the Bible; after all, man and wife are said to be one flesh. The idea of a composite unity of persons is spoken of by God in Genesis (Gen. 2:24).
2007-02-23 01:27:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
No
Philippians 2:6 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped.
…for the Father is greater than I (John 14:28).
2007-02-23 02:57:16 · answer #3 · answered by keiichi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, we'll play the game.
God = Judge
Jesus = defense attorney
Satan = accuser of you to God
You = sinner, sentenced to death
When Jesus took your death sentence for you, paid the price so you can live eternally and not die as you deserve, I'd say you had better use your math to COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS instead of playing these foolish games!! Brush up on your math skills by reading God's Word. God, Jesus (Son) + Holy Spirit = The Holy Trinity. (One God eternally existing in 3 distinct persons). FYI: Division is satan's game to divide us, so as to conquer us and I must say he's doing a great job with most people unfortunately.
2007-02-23 01:55:09 · answer #4 · answered by connie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No: Jesus = God = Holy Ghost
2007-02-23 02:14:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think in dimensions...He's all one. But you can see the Father through the Son, you can see the Spirit through both. They're just too big for our finite brains. Take an apple...it has three parts, protective covering (God), meat of the apple (Jesus), core and seeds (Holy Spirit). Each have their job to do, but all one apple. That is the trinity in a nutshell! Or apple ;-)
2007-02-23 01:30:45 · answer #6 · answered by skygirly62 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus and God is the same thing.
John 10:30 "I and the Father are one."
One and the same. Hard to get a grip on, I'll give you that.
John 8:58 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am."
No one during that time used this terminology. It was the same thing as saying that you were God.. "I am" was the words given to Moses on mount Sinai. It was the words say that "I AM" was the name of God.
For this reason they were going to stone Jesus.
2007-02-23 01:36:57 · answer #7 · answered by chris p 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Poor vision. Your view of man is misguided. I think you failed by way of not using the subtraction method.
God was the father and creator of all things.
Man is on a much lesser scale than God.
Jesus is God's spirit wrapped in flesh.
So Jesus would be just below God, because Man/Flesh is a negative.
So it's God, then Jesus, than us Christians, non believers, Satan. (in order of greater to least)
2007-02-23 01:30:27 · answer #8 · answered by se-ke 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Trinity namely, God the father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, are one; man it seems, is just the residue of creation.
2007-02-23 01:28:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes someone please state why something cant be different and same in the same time.
because it cant.
light cant be dark
human cant be god
god cant be human but he can be with the human
that dont make human=god.
Theres a verse in the bible that Jesus refers to the judgement day and says no one knows it but the father, if eventually theyre all the same entity, why didnt he just say he knows but he cant say it??
We conclude that Paul, was a pagan who couldnt get rid of his wishes to have a threuine God even tho he believed in Jesus.
And what about all those verses when Jesus says I and the Father are one? Theyre not literal, the Bible is full of figurative speech.
Jesus knew that God was with him fully since God is the creator, and Jesus followed Gods orders fully, so they were like one. Very figurative. Not one bit literal.
2007-02-23 01:35:41 · answer #10 · answered by Antares 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋