Is it only allowed to explain 'the Trinity' in a positive manner?

Question

I honestly can't begin to understand the Trinity.

God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit seem to be one and the same, I get that part. However, when I ask about the consequences of 1+1+1=1, the reactions vary.

When I ask if the Trinity implies that actually God sorta died for our sins too, the answer is usually: "yes, now you're starting to get it"

But when I ask if the Trinity means that Jesus actually impregnated his own mother for himself to be born, then everybody says I'm a blasphemer.

So, why is it that the Trinity only works in certain circumstances, but not in all of them?

Answer 1

"But when I ask if the Trinity means that Jesus actually impregnated his own mother for himself to be born, then everybody says I'm a blasphemer"-LOL man that's good.

I guess the truth stings, even if it is "truth" that is based on a lie, like the Bible.

Answer 2

You can ask all the questions you want about the Holy Trinity, so long as you do it in a manner that respects the supreme dignity of the creator God.

We know that Jesus was conceived in Mary's womb by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Speculating on other matters, especially for malicious purposes, isn't going to win you many friends.

There's a lot of good theological background material available on the Holy Trinity.

I suggest you get it and study it.

Then you'll sorta know a little more.

Answer 3

you asked for it. I will start from the top.

now, your heart has to be open and receptive in order to really understand this.

First there was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God. He was there from the beginning then the word became flesh.
John 1:1
God is ultimatly the word. He just is. (the spoken life)

you know David, the man after Gods own heart. God said that threw his blood line the messiah will be born. That is Mary and Joseph. The angel from heaven (Gabrial) came to Joseph and said that Mary will bear the Messiah and told Joseph she will bear Jesus without sexual conception. so..there was NO sex involved. that is why it is called a miracle. God will come and be born in the flesh. the word became flesh.

now the Father went to the Son and the Son possesses the Holy Spirit.

I think that you will learn a lot if you went to a Bible study. they are not there to brain wash you. just go there and ask questions and see what they say. what do you have to loose?

Answer 4

Well, your question about the The Blessed Virgin Mary does sound wrong.

The Holy Trinity is a mystery.

The Trinity is WHO GOD IS, it's What He is.

In some ways we might not ever truly understand the Trinity, at least while we're on earth. It seems so paradoxical, so illogical to those who think of the Three Divine Persons as Three separate "Beings": 1+1+1=3? Yes! But change your operators -- 1X1X1=1! We have to loosen up our minds a little, and think in terms of Essences, not separate ontological realities. God is one Essence; He is "Being" itself. He is He Who called Himself "I AM." The Three Persons are of this same Divine Essence; they are the same Being, and are only distinct in Their relations with One Another.



The Three Persons are not each a "partial God" or "aspects of God" or "manifestations of God." The Three Persons are each fully and truly 100% God in their essence and have each existed from the very beginning of time. One did not create or precede the Other. At the same time, the Three Persons are not Three separate "Gods"; they are ONE God!

Answer 5

I think, we can explain 'the Trinity' in any manner we like;
Why not?? Who cares ??? God ?? God has nothing to loose , in my opinion.

Me, like you, very difficult to understand the idea of telling my self that :
God is God, Jesus is God and Holy spirit is God.

The way I think is :
God is God, Jesus is Jesus, Holy Spirit is holy Spirit,
and me ? Me too,...I am; and you are you .

Each of us has a meaning to exist and each of us has the right to think what the meaning is.

Then when we communicate, we can see how any body else think.
It is interesting to see the differences, and it is interesting to watch our own comments to other people's thought.

Jesus Impregnated his own mother?
Come on!!
Haven't you heard the case of a 2 years old girl pregnant?
There was a case like that, some years ago.
So anything can happen.
That is why, to make it easy, people believe in God, Who can say : "Be----and it is!"
Cloning? Well we have got brain to experience anything . but for sure so far we can only imitate not create from nothing.

So, for and in my opinion :
God is God, Jesus is Jesus and Holy Spirit is Holy Spirit.

Answer 6

"So, why is it that the Trinity only works in certain circumstances, but not in all of them?"

It does work in all of them as long as you don't confuse the "persons" (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) of the Trinity. All three are God: not three Gods, but three persons in one God.

God, in the person of the Son, died for our sins. It was a different person of the Trinity (the Holy Spirit), however, who impregnated Mary.

Answer 7

No, 1+1+1=3 but Father, Son and the Holy Spirit is one God.

Jesus fulfilled the Bible prophecy. He came here the way it was told, He did what He came to do...He keeps His promises. Imagine what people were thinking before this actually happened. : )

Answer 8

The trinity is hard for anyone to understand. It cannot be understood with the mind because , it is spiritually discerned.
There really is no exact comparison on the earth..the closest thing I can think of is water coming in more then one form. Liquid, Gas and Solid..yet...all three are water.
When you think of "impregnating" and such...think more along the lines of Cloning..then you will get a better picture of what happened inside the body of Mary.

Answer 9

God is Love;
Love needs an object;
God is self-sufficient and needs noone outside of God;
Love is ever creative, abundant and life-giving! From Love proceeds Love!


The Father-Monarch did not create the Son, He begat Him. He did not create the Spirit, the Spirit proceeds from Him and the Son. But all this takes place outside of time, in God's dimension: He is triune eternally, from the beginning, and is complete in Himself.

Answer 10

What amazes me is that people have accepted such nonsense and logical absurdities for two millennia. It’s like this, the Christian theologies appear to be nice & wonderful on the surface, but dig deeper and you find the abyss. It’s utterly ridiculous. But you have to be reasonably intelligent to actually spot the problems and, the ignoramuses usually don’t understand those problems. Here’s an example…Question: “How can evil come from a perfect god?”, Answer: “God gave us free will.” So you see, people don’t have the capacity to comprehend the actual problem, if they did, they would not answer with such BS.

Answer 11

Don't sweet it. It's a pagan/christian teaching with no actual biblical basis for it. Christians try to force the teaching by misinterpreting verses to mean more than they do. Kinda like their interpretation of the gay bashing verses to justify their hate. Nowhere in the bible does it say anywhere that the Holy Spirit sent by Christ is apart of God only that it was sent by Christ to give us guidance (conscience) and comfort in the place of Christ cause Christ couldn't do it himself. Don't believe anything you hear most of it is false any ways. The Trinity is a false catholic teachings like most of what they got to say is as far from the Bible as one can get.