Can someone explain to me the relationship between God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit?

Question

In church, my priest used to say something like "To God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost", which always confused me because that sounds like all three are God, yet all three are seperate beings, so how can they all be God if we beleive in only one God???

Answer 1

How? We don't know how. The human mind cannot fully comprehend this truth of the Christian faith. And yet we know it is a truth. The Father is God. The Son is God. The Holy Spirit is God. Yet there is but one God. Each of the three divine persons is not simply part of God, but is fully and completely God. And yet they are all one. Unity in Trinity Trinity in unity.

The Athanasian Creed, an ancient document of the Christian faith, states it as thoroughly and accurately as it can be stated. You can read it here:

http://www.ccel.org/creeds/athanasian.creed.html

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Answer 2

Exactly!

They are 3 seperate beings. God is the almighty, the eternal. Jesus is his son, his begotten son, or first creation. The holy spirit is God's active force.

Not any of these 3 are equal.
Jesus has some of God's qualities.
But the holy spirit is not even a being!

And besides, something as fundamental as the very basis of worship, don't you think if they were all equal, at least one scripture would say that all 3 were equal and the same? But, there are none.
Yet there are several referring to how God is greater than Jesus, and the like.

Answer 3

The Lord our God the Lord is One (one here is the unified one)

Maybe with the help of our modern f/x can you try to get some kind of grasp on the Trinity, because they are all God, all individuals & all with different rolls.

This is kind of a wierd way of saying it, but maybe this will help because water, steam, ice does not help me.
A piece of light goes out from Father God & takes the form of Jesus. Another piece of light goes out from the Father & takes the form of the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost.
All three are the same, God, yet all are now individuals.

This might be an over simplified way of putting it, but maybe it will help understand.

Jesus' roll was to become flesh to redeem humanity - only by becoming flesh could he be born & DIE.

Holy Spirit was to be left behind after Jesus as a deposit & comfortor, sealing those that will believe & guaranteeing our place in heven.

Answer 4

and I will request the Father and he will give YOU another helper to be with YOU forever, 17 the spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receive, because it neither beholds it nor knows it. YOU know it, because it remains with YOU and is in YOU. John 14:16,17  But the helper, the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name, that one will teach YOU all things and bring back to YOUR minds all the things I told YOU. John 14:26 However, when they deliver YOU up, do not become anxious about how or what YOU are to speak; for what YOU are to speak will be given YOU in that hour; 20 for the ones speaking are not just YOU, but it is the spirit of YOUR Father that speaks by YOU. Matthew 10:19,20 Jehovah God the Almighty Psalms 83:18 Jesus the only begotten son of god Matthew 16:15-17 Holy Spirit Jehovah's active force See scriptures above

Answer 5

God is not merely a human-type person, exactly like us except for being bigger and more powerful and invisible. He is something so entirely "Other" that he is beyond our ability to fully comprehend. God is beyond simple individual human personality. He is one whole single Being, One God. But his nature is made up of a complex set of three fully interrelated parts.

In revealing his nature to us humans, he has had to do it in terms we can understand. "Father", "Son" and "Holy Spirit" are words we can understand, which give us some way to grasp God's very complex nature. The way that two of these parts relate to each other is like the way a parent and child relate, so we call them Father and Son. This does not mean that they are two separate people, and that one of them physically begat the other, but the Father/Son relationship is the nearest human equivilent that we can understand. The third part, the Holy Spirit, relates to the other two just as the Spirit of something relates to its Idea and its Being.

There is an interesting book by Dorothy Sayers called "The Mind of the Maker", which explained the Trinity in a literary metaphor which I found helpful. She compared God to a human creator such as an author, or an artist. The Father is the creative Idea, as it exists in the mind of the creator, his meaning or his intention. The Son is the expression of that idea, formed in the creator's choice of words or shapes, and at some point expressed physically on paper or other medium. (As the Son took physical form as Jesus). The Spirit is the effect of that creative work in the minds and hearts of the audience, what it does in their lives. (As the Spirit enters into our lives.)

Another helpful metaphor was suggested by C. S. Lewis. (Sorry, I can't remember which of his books it was in.) He said to think of how you, yourself, are simultaneously different people, yet always one and the same person. For instance, I am Daughter to my dad, Sister to my sisters, Friend to my friends, Co-Worker, Neighbor, Aunt, Tutor, etc. This is a simple metaphor, and easy to understand. But when using it, we have to remember that God is a more complicated being than we are, and the parts of the Trinity are both more distinct and simultaneously more united, than anything we can experience in human beings.

Answer 6

God is. he came to earth in the form of man,born by a woman
when Gods spirit came upon her. God is a spirit the creator of all things the world and everything in it. So ,he is the father the son and the holy-spirit. In Genesis he told moses to tell the Israelites I am. That meant God is everything you need him to be and every thing you want him to be. Prayer brings you to him in ways only you can understand in a closer relationship to him. When we are in slavery to sin,we cry out God hears us and comes to help us, then he sends the comforting spirit the holy-spirit that lives in us. This is the factor that keeps us close to him and gives us direction. God is all three.

Answer 7

Here is my 911: God is really the father of all things and he had a few sons but only one "begotten" son that volunteered to come down to earth and assist us back into our gods good grace - Jesus Christ 'aka The Son'. I refer to the third as the Holy Spirit / but others the Holy Ghost he was sent to help all those called by watching over them, informing them of what is right or wrong, and assisting them "Christians" through life and into the next one. Hope that this helps may GOD THE FATHER BLESS YOU THROUGH JESUS CHRIST THE SON WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT - OMEN/AMEN!!!

Answer 8

The Trinity is God and is one. God revealed Himself to man in three persons, this is because God is personnal and wants to be in our lives. Think of water as an example. It can take three forms, liquid, ice and steam, yet are not the components still the same? The same concept can be applied to God and the Trinity. All three are still God but presents Himself to man in three forms, these forms still hold the same properties of God, who is one.

Answer 9

Body = physical senses

Mind = personal thoughts, learning

Spiritual = the things about you that you cannot change

example: if someone cheats on their spouse it feels good to the body, the mind justifies it , the spirit knows its wrong. Three different things all one person

Answer 10

One personality acting through three different bodies.