Can anyone with our finite minds explain how God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are different; yet the same God?

Question

If you read the Word of God it tells us that they are the same; GOD. Then you read on and find that they are not the same.

Answer 1

The trinity has pagan origins. The worship of pagan gods (grouped in threes or triads) were common before Jesus was born. We can take as examples the trinitarian groups of Brahma, Siva, and Vishnu from the Indian religion and of Osiris, Isis, and Horus from the Egyptian religion.

The word "trinity" never appears in the Bible.

If the Father and the Son have a name (Jehovah, Jesus Christ), why doesn't the Holy Spirit also?


"But he, being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and caught sight of God’s glory and of Jesus standing at God’s right hand, and he said: “Look! I behold the heavens opened up and the Son of man standing at God’s right hand." -- Acts 7:55, 56 => Where's the Holy Spirit?

The Holy spirit is God's active force, his power.
The texts from the Bible refer to the Holy Spirit as something, not as someone.


How could God be Jesus. Can you and your son be the same person? No, it's impossible.
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation." -- Colossians 1:15. = > Jesus was created. He has a begining but God doesn't.


“Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.” -- Matthew 24:36. If God and Jesus are the same shouldn't Jesus know the day?


"....The Father is greater than I am." -- John 14:28

The Trinity says that the Father and the Son are equal, but the Bible says something totally different.


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http://www.watchtower.org/library/ti/article_04.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/ti/article_08.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/ti/article_07.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2005/4/22/article_02.htm

Answer 2

The distinction as professed and taught by the earliest ecumenical councils is that in terms of the Godhead, the trinitarian persons are distinct, ontological subjects, all of whom share a single divine nature. The distinction is expressed on the level of each relationship to the other trinitarian person. The person of the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Father, and the Holy Spirit is not the Father or the Son. But each person is united inasmuch as the divine nature remains singular. You therefore have one divine nature, (one God) and yet, mysteriously, 3 persons (Father, Son, and Spirit.) This is for Christians a revelation-- God is one, yet the one God is Three persons who share a single divine nature. To assert that all the trinitiarian persons are the same, or that the persons are not distinct ontological subjects, is, for Christians, a heresy called monarchianism or modalism.

Answer 3

I think its very simple. A man can be a father, and a son and he can also be a spirit (see explanation).

His spirit is his word or his bond. A man can give a kind word, or gesture, or act to another person that will stay with that person for a time. Suppose I say something nice to a stranger. The stranger might feel good about themselves for an hour or so or maybe a day. Or maybe it will change their life. That is how the man can be a spirit.

One man, three different roles.

One God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Answer 4

Not completely, because God is beyond our understanding, but we can think about what God has told us about Himself in the Bible and understand some of it. The Bible says there is one God, but it refers to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, each of whom is referred to as God. Theologians use two technical terms, "person" and "nature". A being's nature tells what it is and what it can do. A trout has trout nature, which means, among other things, it can breathe under water. An eagle has eagle nature, which means, among other things, that it can fly. You and I have human natures, which means, among other things, that we can know things intellectual, as distinct from mere sense knowledge, and we can love. Persons act through their natures. When I know something I know it through my intellect, but I, the person, and doing it.

In our experience each person has one nature and each nature is possessed by one person but there is nothing in the concepts of person and nature that require that relationship. There is one God, one divine nature, but that one nature is fully possessed and acted through three divine persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Two excellent books that discuss this question in greater detail are A Map of Life and Theology and Sanity, both by F. J. Sheed. They are in many libraries and A Map of Life is on the web at http://www.ewtn.com/library/SPIRIT/MAPLIF.TXT

Answer 5

the bible does not contradict itself. some translations may though. thats b/c the publisher or the translator may have omited words or edited the text to go along with his/her beliefs. if God wanted us to know he was a trinity it would have been written down all throughout the bible. his name appears some 1700 times yet not one times does the bible ever mention a trinity. there is good reason for that. its b/c its not a teaching of the bible. look all this up in the encyclopedia brintanica. "Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament" (encyclopidea britanica)

Answer 6

Piece of cake. God and the holy spirit never existed and Jesus was a stoned hippie.

Answer 7

"We are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings."

–Paramahansa Yogananda

Answer 8

The Bible tells us they are not the same. It never speaks of a trinity.

Answer 9

jesus was a man. god, the source, the great spirit, mother earth, its all energy, male and female energy,

Answer 10

for us Muslims Jesus was a man not a God........he was God messenger