can someone explain the sacred trinity?

Answer 1

The Blessed Trinity is God. There is only 1 God. In God there are three Persons. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. We call this the mystery of the Blessed Trinity. It is like a tree with three banches. The tree is one. The three Persons are equal to each other. It is a mystery we cannot fully understand. We must be humble enough to admit we cannot completely understand God.

Answer 2

Unfortunately no one can truely explain the sacred trinity. Different christian faiths have different ideas about it.

History shows that the idea of the trinity was intorduced after all the apostles died and come form pagan religions in an attempt to make christianity moore compatable with the other religions.

The official idea of a trinity come about in 325 a.d. but this only had God and Jesus in it. the holy ghost was officially added about 50 years later and it took untill about the 12th centry for it to become widely accepted.

So the sacred trinity is not a biblical teaching.

There are many texts that SEEM to proove the trinity but when the CONTEXT of the VERSE and the BIBLE is taken as a whole, there are no trinity proof texts

Answer 3

One God, 3 different personalities. However, each are just as much God as the other. Neither is 1/3 God, They are all fully God, Father, Son, & Holy Ghost. Not 3 Gods. That would be Polytheism. I know it's difficult to understand. However, do you believe that God has always existed? Yes! Can you explain it? No! Why? Because the human mind is not capable of comprehending how God has always been. But that's what the Bible teaches! By the same token, one is not truly capable of understanding one God, 3 different personalities, but that is what the bible teaches. Many people have tried to use different illustrations. Some say the trinity is like an egg. 3 parts: shell, yolk, and white. However the illustration fails in that neither of the 3 can be considered an egg by itself. Perhaps a better illustration would be that of a pretzel. 3, yet one.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Should You Believe in the Trinity?

What About Trinity "Proof Texts"?



"IT IS said that some Bible texts offer proof in support of the Trinity. However, when reading such texts, we should keep in mind that the Biblical and historical evidence does not support the Trinity.

Any Bible reference offered as proof must be understood in the context of the consistent teaching of the entire Bible. Very often the true meaning of such a text is clarified by the context of surrounding verses."


"THE New Catholic Encyclopedia offers three such "proof texts" but also admits: "The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not taught in the O[ld] T[estament]. In the N[ew] T[estament] the oldest evidence is in the Pauline epistles, especially 2 Cor 13.13 [verse 14 in some Bibles], and 1 Cor 12.4-6. In the Gospels evidence of the Trinity is found explicitly only in the baptismal formula of Mt 28.19." (Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit,)

Answer 6

First of all, it is not illogical though it is a mystery. What do i mean. Many people miss this important point. If something claims to be one in A and 3 in A at the same time and in the same relationship, then we would have a true absurdity. But that is not the Trinity. The Trinity is that God is one in essence (A) and three in persons (B) at the same time and in the same relationship. It meets the tests of logic though obviously it is a mystery that must be believed by faith. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are not three separate gods, but make up the one eternal God who exists in three distinct persons. Jesuis said in Matthew 28:19 - "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the NAME (singular) of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. John 1:1-"in the beginning was the Word (Jesus) and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 10:30 - "I and the Father are one" Exodus 3:14, God said to Moses, "tell them I AM has sent you" John 8:58 - Jesus said to them, "before Abraham was, I AM." I John 5:20 - Jesus is the true God and eternal life. Acts 5. Peter said to Ananias, referring to the Holy Spirit, "you have not lied to men, but to God."

Answer 7

The trinity represents The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost. Because each is a part of the other they are recognized as one being. They are connected in that awesome way. The Holy Ghost fills you and you are only able to get to the Father through the Son which is Jesus Christ which died for our transgressions.

Answer 8

The trinity is not easy to explain.
God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit
Three personalities, united in purpose.
Some people use the explanation of water..having 3 forms..
liquid,gas, ice...but all are the same substance.

Answer 9

The Trinity is a feeble attempt to explain a misconception about God. The Bible does not say, not one single time, "God in three persons." Read Deuteronomy 4:35-39.
In John 14, Philip said to Jesus, "Show us the Father." Here was a perfect opportunity for Jesus to explain the Trinity, but what did he say? "Have I been so long time with you, Philip, and yet you have not known me? He that has seen me has seen the Father; how then do you say, Show us the Father?"
If the Holy Ghost is one of three persons, I find it extremely odd that the Holy Ghost never speaks to the Father.
I do believe in the Father, Word, and Holy Ghost (or Spirit), but these are not three separate persons; they are three functions of the same God. Three distinct persons, each being God, is three Gods no matter how you slice it, and there is only one God.

Justbeingher, above, is correct, but that's not the classical definition of the Trinity.

ChingonSD, if you will unblock your email long enough to contact me, I can send you an excellent explanation that is too long to put here, with many scriptural references.

Answer 10

What it is not is three gods. What also it is not (which one person said below) is three different modes. That is called Modalism and was rejected as heresy by the early Church. They decided the best way to describe it is the doctrine of homoousius which means one substance. The metaphor given to explain this is the sun. A solar flare is of the same substance as the sun and is from the sun but can be perceived as separate while it is leaping out. When it is united with the whole of its substance it is indistinguishable though. One God, three persons of one substance. It is very confusing, almost as much as Jesus being fully God and fully human. These are what is called divine mysteries because our little minds can't fathom them fully due to percieved contradictions that to God are not impossible.