Can someone explain the Holy trinity to me?

Question

Was Jesus all 3 at once or did they happen to him at different times? And what do each of three mean?

Answer 1

Yes all 3 at once, here it is; God is an invisible spirit and covers all time and space, and he has power to created things out of his invisible body, so he created the heavens and manifested himself as King of the heavens as Christ Jesus, Now when satan rebelled God destroyed his kingdom and created the physical earth and came as Jesus to tell us how to get back to heaven by receiving his Holy spirit, so he is All 3 in different manifestaions, and he will ;
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Answer 2

Very difficult and people have been making attempts at explaining it and getting into heresy. First off, we do not believe in three Gods -that's polytheism.

The orthodox trinitarian view is God in three distinct persons- God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, co-equal, co-eternal, all of the same substance (divine). The Father and Spirit do not have bodies, only Jesus (because of the Incarnation) has a physical body.

Jesus is God the Son. He is not the Father nor is He the Spirit. People who teach that Jesus is the Father, Son and Spirit are call Modalists (Jesus existing in three forms). This is a heresy (false teaching) condemned centuries ago. The is the problem with using the three forms of water (liquid, steam and ice) to teach about the Trinity.

Some people use the egg as an analogy. The egg has three parts shell, white, yolk. The problem with this is that the shell is not the egg only a part of the egg. Better, but still not right.

I'll use a biunity to explain the triunity- marriage. Genesis says when two people are married they become "one flesh". It consists of two distinct persons, both of whom are essential to it being a marriage. The husband is not the wife and the wife is not the husband. If you remove one or the other, the marriage ceases to exist. Are there two marriages? No, one marriage, two different people, one flesh.

Three persons, one Godhead. Do I understand it completely? No, but that's not required of me or you.

Answer 3

Christendom believes that the fundamental doctrine of her teachings is the Trinity. By Trinity she means a triune or three-in-one God. That means a God in three Persons, namely, "God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost." Since this is said to be, not three Gods, but merely "one God in three Persons," then the term God must mean the Trinity; and the Trinity and God must be interchangeable terms. On this basis let us quote John 1:1, 2 and use the equivalent term for God, and let us see how it reads:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with the Trinity, and the Word was the Trinity. The same was in the beginning with the Trinity." But how could such a thing be? If the Word was himself a Person and he was with the Trinity, then there would be four Persons. But the Word is said by the trinitarians to be the Second Person of the Trinity, namely, "God the Son." But even then, how could John say that the Word, as God the Son, was the Trinity made up of three Persons? How could one Person be three?

However, let the trinitarians say that in John 1:1 God means just the First Person of the Trinity, namely "God the Father," and so the Word was with God the Father in the beginning. On the basis of this definition of God, how could it be said that the Word, who they say is "God the Son," is "God the Father"? And where does their "God the Holy Ghost" enter into the picture? If God is a Trinity, was not the Word with "God the Holy Ghost" as well as with "God the Father" in the beginning?

Suppose, now, they say that, in John 1:1, 2, God means the other two Persons of the Trinity, so that in the beginning the Word was with God the Father and God the Holy Ghost. In this case we come to this difficulty, namely, that, by being God, the Word was God the Father and God the Holy Ghost, the other two Persons of the Trinity. Thus the Word, or "God the Son," the Second Person of the Trinity, is said to be also the First Person and the Third Person of the Trinity. It does not solve the difficulty to say that the Word was the same as God the Father and was equal to God the Father but still was not God the Father. If this were so, it must follow that the Word was the same as God the Holy Ghost and was equal to God the Holy Ghost but still was not God the Holy Ghost.

Answer 4

The Father was not made, nor created, nor generated by anyone. The Son is not made, nor created, but begotten by the Father alone. The Holy Spirit is not made, nor created, nor generated, but proceeds from the Father and the Son. There is, then, one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three sons; one Holy Spirit, not three holy spirits. In this Trinity, there is nothing before or after, nothing greater or less. The entire three Persons are coeternal and coequal with one another. So that in all things, as is has been said above, the Unity is to be worshiped in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity.

Answer 5

The doctrine of the Trinity is encapsulated in Matthew 28:19, where Jesus instructs the apostles: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."

The parallelism of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit is not unique to Matthew’s Gospel, but appears elsewhere in the New Testament (e.g., 2 Cor. 13:14, Heb. 9:14), as well as in the writings of the earliest Christians, who clearly understood them in the sense that we do today—that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three divine persons who are one divine being (God).


The Didache



"After the foregoing instructions, baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living [running] water. . . . If you have neither, pour water three times on the head, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Didache 7:1 [A.D. 70]).

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 6

Since we are speaking of God, three PERSONS cannot mean three "people." "People" are human beings, but as you said, the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God.

God is One, but he is three Persons. This is not arithmetic but simply a way of stating what the Bible teaches about God and about Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The Father is not the Son or the Holy Spirit. The Son is not the Holy Spirit. Each Person, however, is God.

The Son was God from eternity. He did not stop being God when he became man. Now he is both divine and human--forever.

In saying these things we are not proving that they are true or explaining how they can be true. We are simply stating what the Scripture says.

It is in Christ that we will see God in heaven: "...When he appears , we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2).

Remember that in the Creed we do not say, "I understand," but "I believe."

Answer 7

You are right, this can be a confusing concept. Here are some things to think about.

First, can we digress to take a quick look at the English language? The word FISH does not indicate the number of the little water creatures we are speaking of. It could be one single fish, 35 of them, or an innumerable school of them. All with the one word, FISH.

We have other words like that, too. I like to bring up the concept of "MANAGEMENT". When you think of business MANAGEMENT, you are actually thinking of a team of individuals who work together to manage the business.

Now, take that same thought process and apply it to the word GOD. GOD is a word for a TEAM. When I teach Bible Classes to younger children, I call them the GOD SQUAD. It gets a laugh, but it conveys the concept.

GOD is a team consisting of three separate beings or personalities. GOD the Father, GOD the Son, and GOD the Holy Spirit. They may or may not be three bodies. I don't know. Some things are just beyond our little human brains.

Think of GOD the Father as the big boss. Chief among chiefs. GOD the Son is second in command. This GOD member actually took on a human form on the Earth in order to clear the way for all of humankind to participate in GOD's plans. GOD the Holy Spirit is our great comfortor. This member of the team does not talk much, but gently communicates with each of us, with encouragement and comfort as we work through our Earthly lives.

As GOD the Holy Spirit is working most directly with us, GOD the Son removes our burdens of guilt and paves the way for us to see the truth of what lies ahead. GOD the Son is also our interpreter. We cry out from time to time when things are going wrong, when we are sick, or just unhappy. GOD the Son takes our cries, looks into our hearts and sees what it is we really need. He takes all of that information to GOD the Father, and presents it all on our behalf. Then, once GOD the Father determines what is best for both us and the future, GOD the Son and GOD the Holy Spirit work to implement those things that would be of benefit.

Does this, perhaps, help you to understand how this all might work?

Answer 8

The Trinity is God our Heavenly Father, Creator of everything, Jesus, His Son, who was God physically on earth as our Savior who died for our sins and was resurrected, and the Holy Spirit who was sent by God to comfort us after Jesus went back to Heaven. They are 3 separate entities, yet One. God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit. Hope this helps.

Answer 9

The trinity is God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. They are all the same, but yet God is God and Jesus is Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit. But they are all one in the same.

Answer 10

I look at it like water.

Water is a trinity. It comes to us in three forms ..... 1. A liquid, ... 2. A solid, ...... 3. A gas. Three forms yet ..... always water.

The Trinity of God is 1. A liquid - God, the Father, ..... 2. A solid - God, the Son, ...... 3. A gas - God, the Holy Spirit. ......... Three forms ---- yet, always God.

That is just one way of looking at it. Hope that helps.

Kev

Answer 11

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit make up the one GOD.

St. Patrick used the 3 leaf clover to get the message across.

Three leaves...one clover.

Works for me.