In trying to understand the Trinity, can I somehow compare it to Multiple Personality Disorder?

Question

This question might become slightly offensive, sorry for that. But I'm truly trying to understand the Trinity.

Is it like one being with three personalities? Like, when Jesus hung on the cross, he said "Oh Father, why hast thou forsaken me"...does that mean one of the personalities left his body, but the other two remained?

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to claim that crucifixion could be a good medical treatment for Multiple Personality Disorder. Really, that would be out of line. I'm not even implying that, really.

I'm just trying to understand. Is it something like MPD?

Answer 1

Well, that quote is actually not from the cross. The quote was "Mary, don't forget to water my birds." (The canaries in the cage hanging from the nail.)

Simple Human Projection: We Feel (spirit), We Think (soul), We have a Body (physical). Let's deify that and use our Father (or Mother-the Goddess) to represent and honor that?

Works for me. Doesn't take away from the story.

The MPD thing was nice too. If it works for you?

Answer 2

It's like viewing the three dimensional shadow of a four dimensional object -

The mystery of the Triune nature of God was first seen in Genesis, and then through-out the OT books. The amazing thing to me is that the authors of these books didn't fully understand the complexity of their writings. Some of the Qabalah authors spent considerable time writing on the nature of God. In there writings, this Trinity idea is seen quite clearly.

It is not a new idea or concept developed by the early Church Fathers, but rather an ancient attempt to describe God. It is likely the best description we will have, until we are with Him.

Answer 3

Oh, boy r u lucky I was here today to answer this question, cuz you're geting a hot mess of answers here. It's like this kiddo,

The holy trinity is a union. Just that. God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are united. THEY ARE SEPERATE, BUT UNITED. If it were just Jesus and God, it'd be the Holy Duo, understand?

The fact that People say that they are the same is because they all act in the same way and achieve the same purpose. It has no relevance to the trinity at all save for that bit of info. It's just easier to say it because it about sums it up.

Answer 4

You must remember that you can not think of god, as you think of us. I mean, God has no limits, he can do everything. if you try to use always logic, you may end up not understanding.

That´s why Faith is so important.

Is not a disorder as you think, is not a mental illness.

Think of an Egg, it has three parts, (man I´m getting a hard time trying to translate here), It has the clear part, the yellow part and the white part in the outside (sorry i tried the best I could). But every pat are still a part of the egg isn´t it?

Take care.

Answer 5

If we are willing to accept and teach the truth as outlined in Ephesians 4:4-6, we can do away with a lot of confusion and division among the local churches and denominations. Many false teachers have lied to us and tried to make us do certain things to help the Lord out and to make us have a part in our salvation, but when we know the truth, we can see that He did it all.

Ephesians 4:14 that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.

Ephesians 4:4 there is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. 6. One God and father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

There is one body: This is the Body of Christ (the church Eph 1:22-23), which is the only true church for this age. There are other churches in the Bible but they are not the body of Christ (Acts 7:38; Matt 18:17). One Spirit: This is the Spirit of Almighty God and this Spirit is God for God is a Spirit. If we are true believers, then we have the Spirit of God and we become the Temple of God.
The Holy Spirit is God:
1. He strives (Genesis 6:3)
2. He teaches (Luke 12:12).
3. He convicts (John 1:8).
4. He directs (Acts 13:2).
5. He makes intercession (Romans 8:26).
6. He inspires (II Peter 1:21).
7. He sanctifies (I Peter 1:2).
8. He is God (Acts 5:3-4).
9. He is truth (John 16:13).

One hope: This is that which is called that blessed hope. It is also called the catching away or rapture of the church (I Cor 15:51-53; I Thes 4:13-17). This is when we shall all not die but we will all be changed. This earthly body must be given a heavenly body. (I Cor 15:40-44). One Lord: There can be but one Lord for the Body of Christ and He is the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us and rose again. This same Lord is also God:

The Lord Jesus Christ is God:

1. He has all power (Matthew 28:18).
2. He is all knowing (Col 2:3).
3. He was in the beginning (John 1:1).
4. He is God (John 8:58).
5. He gives redemption (Col 1:14).
6. He is present everywhere (Matthew 28:20).
7. He became a Man (John 1:14)
8. He created all things (Eph 3:9; Col 1:6).

One faith: This is not our faith but the faith of Jesus Christ (Romans 3:22; Gal 3:16). One baptism: This is the baptism of the Spirit that places us into the Body of Christ (I Cor 12:13). This is not the water baptism that was done in other ages.
One God and Father of all:
1. He makes covenants (Genesis 9: 1-17; Gen 12:1-3)
2. He is one God (I Chronicles 8:6).
3. He is a redeemer (Isa 63:16).
4. He is the master (Mal 1:6).
5. He is the I AM (Ex 3:14).
6. He is JEHOVAH (Ex 6:3).
7. He is by whom the whole family in haven and earth is named (Eph
3:14-15).
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are all God and all three are one.
1. The Spirit raised him (Romans 8:11).
2. The Father raised him (Romans 6:4).
He raised himself (John 10:18; John 2:19-20).

Answer 6

The Trinity is a false doctrine. God and Jesus are two different beings altogether. Neither of them ever claimed to be the exact same person, that's just something that the Church Fathers plugged in around the 3rd Century.

Answer 7

This is what priests have told me, "They are like limbs on one body or aspects of one face. Each body has two arms, two legs and one head. It is still one body. Or each face has two eyes, a nose and a mouth. It is still one face." Try 1Corinthians 12:20-30 The same is true for the Trinity. It is often said in churches by priests and in Church hymns, "Trinity, one in essence, undivided."

Answer 8

The trinity was named by the catholic church. Aren't you glad they put a face to what was, is, and will always exist. The triune God head exists. There are a few sects that deny the trinity. They will have to give account for themselves.

Your statement about split-personality(dissociative personality disorder) is quite adequate for today. If that helps you understand the trinity. three entities--one God

The God-head is like a three leaf clover OR like three stages of liquid(liquid--solid--gaseous(steam). Faith is not clinical but rather spiritual.

Answer 9

We use 10% of our brain so (in my case about 5%) sometimes greater things than us don't make sense.In Genesis 1 God says "Let US make man in OUR image".Then in John 1 it says "In the beginning was the Word(Jesus) and the Word was with God and the Word was God".
Collosians 1 says "God made all things through Jesus"....
Phillipians says that Jesus "thought it not robbery to be equal to God but emptied himself for our sakes"...
They are ,three who's and one what. Like Peter said about the Holy Spirit in Acts 5 ,when scolding Annanias" You have not lied to man ,but to God"
1x1x1=1 God in three persons. Not as some think,1+1+1=3 gods or one God who wears three different hats.

Answer 10

No, not even close. The Trinity is a central Christian mystery, which means we will never completely understand it with our human minds, but we do know that the Trinity is three divine persons in one God: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Note: these are not different modes of God or different personalities, but three individual, distinct persons.

Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

253 The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial Trinity".83 The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God."84 In the words of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), "Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature."85

254 The divine persons are really distinct from one another. "God is one but not solitary."86 "Father", "Son", "Holy Spirit" are not simply names designating modalities of the divine being, for they are really distinct from one another: "He is not the Father who is the Son, nor is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who is the Father or the Son."87 They are distinct from one another in their relations of origin: "It is the Father who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds."88 The divine Unity is Triune.

255 The divine persons are relative to one another. Because it does not divide the divine unity, the real distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them to one another: "In the relational names of the persons the Father is related to the Son, the Son to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to both. While they are called three persons in view of their relations, we believe in one nature or substance."89 Indeed "everything (in them) is one where there is no opposition of relationship."90 "Because of that unity the Father is wholly in the Son and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Son is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Son."91

God bless.