If you ask a Trinitarian "What is the Trinity", why do they give different answers?

Question

I have found that many trinitarians answer as to what the Trinity is are very different from each other.

Some say "God is made up of seperate persons disctinct from one another". they believe the deity in Jesus is God the Son

Other Trinitarians believe " Father, Son, and Holy Ghost but they are NOT seperate persons, they are distinct in function". These type of Trinitarians are close to the Oneness belief. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are distinct in their function but they are not seperate persons. this would make three individual i.e. Three Gods

I am Oneness and believe Jesus to be God but not in a Trinity. Many Trinitarians are confused and dont know the root of their belief but only know that its taught in church or assume that its taught in the bible. The only God is the Father according to (1 Cor 8:6 and others) but

Many radical Trinitarains dont understand that the deity of Jesus is the Father and not the so-called God the Son, but some Trinitarians do.

Answer 1

They answer differently because it is manufactured by man without divine guidance nor a yardstick to keep it "correctly aligned".

Without an absolute rule, every man does that which is right in his own eyes.

Answer 2

The idea of the Trinity comes from pagens. This is not a true bible teaching. Jesus always said that his father is greater than he is. Can any one be greater than their self? Jehovah is God. Jesus is his son. Holy spirt is Gods power or force, not a person.

Answer 3

Its a hard concept mentally, but its an experiential reality. There should probably be more education in churches, as Father K says.

This oneness idea could lead you guys off into sects like the Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't know if christians who become JWs can lose their salvation, but they are certainly obstructing growth in faith; in their case the Holy Spirit is going to shun them, as He can't add himself to lies, and he is certainly not 'divine power', even if He brings divine power by virtue of His ministry to us.

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Hope that wasn't too hard ... salvation of course basically comes through faith in Christ's atoning sacrifice, and then many blessings also through faith (Christ's riches). I've never come across unitarian christians before - I thought that was impossible, certainly a development blocker I would have thought.. The Holy Spirit has been very personal towards me - He is not a vague force in my experience.

Answer 4

How many accounts do you have?
....well anyway, I am blood washed, forgiven and filled with the Holy Ghost so I am on my way to Heaven believing in Father, Son and Holy Spirit as one God not three Gods..What does that make me?...a BELIEVER

Answer 5

I just get a sense that no one can understand it unless they're God so they come up with a multitude of explanations for the unexplainable. To me, it doesn't have to be true. These entities can be separate and still be believable. It's like you're trying to pour your heart out to one person while the other two are always. It's easier to just call upon one at a time at separate times so why does there have to be a trinity?

Answer 6

I, too, believe in the Oneness. I can't see how they can separate the 'Godhead' without separating power.

I've see the illustration of an Egg..which is crazy because the shell, the white and the yolk can stand alone, by it's self without the other.

I think the best example of the 'Trinity' is a person. We are body, soul and spirit...but we are ONE. There is no way of separating a body without killing it.

The "Trinity" is the Fullness of Jesus. And that comes by revelation alone.

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Answer 7

Trinity is not an easy concept. Seek the truth. I believe that the Son and the Father and the Holy Spirit is one God under three godheads. : )

Answer 8

Notice what Paul said as to the relationship of Jesus and his Father.

Heb 10:7- 10 Christ came ‘not to do his will’ but God’s

(Will = mental faculty which one uses to choose a course of action of choice (TAHD)

Even if ‘Sam’ is a Grandfather, Father, and Son, Sam still has only one will,

unless he is mentally disturbed

or Sam is three different individuals.
Sam Sr., Sam Jr., & Sam III.

It is by God’s will we have salvation.

In Rev 3:12 Jesus says 'the God of me' or my God.

Who is Jesus' God?

If we are Christians, followers of Christ, since Jesus Worship God, shouldn't we?

Do we have the same mental attitude as Jesus?

Rom. 15:5 Now may the God who supplies endurance and comfort grant YOU to have among yourselves the same mental attitude that Christ Jesus had, 6 that with one accord YOU may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Answer 9

Because like most man made beliefs, it is full of holes.

The trinity is found nowhere in the Bible. In fact, just the opposite is true. Repeatedly, Jehovah is called the Most High God..Ps. 83: 18

John 14: 28--Jesus said "My Father is greater than I am."

These are only 2 of many that doesn't take a giant intellect to figure out these scriptures.

Answer 10

Why? Total lack of good catechesis by the churches in the most basic elements and cardinal (i.e., Orthodox) doctrines of the faith once delivered. A complete lacking in proper teaching of the development of Church Doctrine during the ante- and post-Nicene Patristic period. A lack of the reading, on behalf of the man and woman in the pews, of the most basic texts of Christendom...the canons of the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church, the writings of the Capadocian Fathers, the anti-Gnostic writings of St. Irenaeus, etc., etc., etc., etc.

Need I go on? The answers that I see on this forum, are, quite frankly, embarrassing.