How canonly one God be in three forms?
2007-03-19 14:36:47 · 15 answers · asked by ann 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's like this.... I can be a mother, a sister, an aunt, a daughter, and a grandmother all at the same time. God the father is the Godhead. Jesus is God manifested in the flesh. And the Holy Spirit is God in spirit form. We were created in his image which is why we have body, mind and spirit. Same with God.
2007-03-19 14:43:00 · answer #1 · answered by tas211 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hope this helps you understand.
The word "trinity" is not found in the Bible. Nevertheless, it is a word used to describe one fact the Bible teaches about God: Our God is a Trinity. This means there are three persons in one God, not three Gods.
The persons are known as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and they have all always existed as three separate persons. The person of the Father is not the same person as the Son. The person of the Son is not the same person as the Holy Spirit. The person of the Holy Spirit is not the same person as the Father. If you take away any one, there is no God. God has always been a trinity from all eternity: "From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God" (Psalm 90:2).
God is not one person who took three forms, i.e., the Father who became the Son, who then became the Holy Spirit. This belief is known today as the "Jesus Only Movement". It is taught by the United Apostolic and United Pentecostal churches, and is an incorrect teaching.
Nor is God only one person as the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Way International, and the Christadelphians teach (These groups are classified as non-Christian cults). For proof that there is more than one person in the Godhead, as in the Plurality Study and/or the Plurality of God:
Gen. 1:26, "Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness..."
Gen. 19:24, "Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven."
Amos 4:10-11, "‘I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses, and I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils; yet you have not returned to Me,' declares the LORD. ‘I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah...'"
Isaiah 44:6, "Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: ‘I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God besides me...‘" See also, Isaiah 48:16.
The Bible says there is only one God. Yet, it says Jesus is God (John 1:1,14); it says the Father is God (Phil. 1:2); and it says the Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4). Since the Son speaks to the Father, they are separate persons. Since the Holy Spirit speaks also (Acts 13:2), He is a separate person. There is one God who exists in three persons.
2007-03-19 14:46:28 · answer #2 · answered by Jo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truely I say to you, if He so chose, God could be in many persons! But He chose three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, for these three were and still are needed for the creation of all things, and the salvation of man, and the consumation (restoration of all creation back to a perfect state)!!! The Father sits on the throne of Heaven and rules, while the Son came to earth to 'redeem' fallen mankind, and later after the Son had resurrected and ascended back to the Father in Heaven, then came the 'comforter' the Holy Spirit, to help build up the christian church on earth!!! PTL I hope this help you unstand, the importance of the 'three offices or persons' necessary to accomplish our salvation and the restoration of ALL creation back to perfection?
2007-03-19 14:48:06 · answer #3 · answered by Old Truth Traveler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many forms or faces do you have? Family face, school face, work face, friends face, teammate face, neighbor. Even the stages of a woman's life are represented by the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone - three forms that a woman takes during her lifetime. If you are talking about aspects of God, there is certainly a president for it.
If you are talking about the Trinity, I personally think it has been misunderstood. I think the Trinity is about our existence here. I think it is the father (the energy that powers this existence), the son (the human form we take) and the holy spirit (our own soul) that they are talking about in that Trinity.
Peace!
2007-03-19 14:47:04 · answer #4 · answered by carole 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Water can be in three forms: solid (ice), liquid and gaseous (vapour).
White light is in seven different colours.
A solid is constituted by three dimensions.
An electron can be understood in three different aspects.
Thermodynamics has three aspects: entropy, enthalpy and free energy.
I can be in three forms: daughter, mother and grandmother.
And, if you believe in the spiritual world, a human being is formed by body, soul and spirit.
One has to use their brain and remember that we know very, very little about everything, about the Universe.
One has to keep ones mind open to go after knowledge, do research, to discover new things and to accept our mediocrity and to be humble enough to accept that the only thing that we know is that we don´t know anything yet.
2007-03-19 14:59:00 · answer #5 · answered by Vovó (Grandma) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is God and then there is the holy spirit which is the way God talks to us and Jesus was God that came down to earth. God had to come to earth in the form of man to forgive our sins so we wouldn't have to sacrifice animals no longer to be forgiven of sins like they had to do in the old testament and to perform miracles to prove there was a God and that God does what he says so people would believe in him
2007-03-19 14:46:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has a spirit just as we do. That is how he made us in his image. God was the creator therefore he is the father. God caused the conception of Jesus therefore he is the Son as well just as your children are part you. Thus, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
2007-03-19 14:41:09 · answer #7 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not three forms but one God in three persons.
2007-03-19 14:39:56 · answer #8 · answered by Conqi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are three seperate individuals; God the Father, his son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.
They are one in purpose. Thus, they are referred to as being the same.
2007-03-19 14:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by Michael H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God the Father:
There is one and only one living and true God. …The eternal God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. …God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
God the Son:
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. …He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His death on the cross, He made provision for the redemption of men from sin.
God the Holy Spirit:
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. …He exalts Christ.
He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. …He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
2007-03-19 14:41:42 · answer #10 · answered by RR 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋