since i'm sooooooo ignorant. please explain the trinity to me. enlighten me if you will. explain to me how 1+1+1=1. please keep in mind, i was a christian for 25 years of my life. so most of what you tell me is something i already believed at one point in my life. i'll admit, it made all the sense in the world when i didn't bother to question it. and when people would ask me just as i'm asking you right now i would call them ignorant even though i realized it wasn't such a dumb question. so go ahead. i'm waiting.
2007-05-18 08:13:02 · 14 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
a reflection... the mind, or the brain, is an organ in the body, one that the body needs to survive. just like the liver or the heart. it cannot survive on it's own. if you took a brain out of a person, it is not a person.
2007-05-18 08:22:34 · update #1
pepper, there is no such thing as a soul. the brain is part of the human body. i thought i just explained this. oh yeah, i did...
2007-05-18 08:34:12 · update #2
and the story of santa clause made sense when i accepted it. does that mean santa clause is real? i'm asking this because i don't really believe any sort of logical answer exists. so unless you can give me one, stop with the childish "ignorant" comments. you're only making yourself look bad.
2007-05-18 08:44:16 · update #3
People more intelligent than me (all 7 of them) can't explain it...and they have been theologians for 30 years or more...you get a worthy answer you let me know....
2007-05-18 08:17:11 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sugar, you're not ignorant and if I were you, I wouldn't believe anyone who told you differently.
The answer is still the same, dear one, as when you believed.
It just is.
Neither science nor math nor even secular logic is going to make it "more real".
Jesus is still Jesus. God Our Father is still God Our Father. The Holy Spirit is still The Holy Spirit. And the Trinity is the same as it ever was (1+1+1 = 1).
"It made all the sense in the world when I didn't bother to question it. "
Why do you bother so still, beloved?
Have you not spent enough time questioning?
Have your questions not increased since becoming skeptic?
I wish you'd come home again. Can you imagine what HE must feel about it?
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some things defy logic...do you not agree with that?
2007-05-18 15:34:31 · answer #2 · answered by Mrs.M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of Christ as the heart of God, broken because we treated God badly.
Think of the Holy Spirit as the mind of God, given to us that we may understand what God wants of us.
Think of God as God, the Father.
Just as a person is not a person without a heart or a mind God is not God without the Messiah and the Holy Ghost.
God is not a person, but, God can be a person when God chooses. God is not a spirit, but, God can be a spirit when God chooses.
Isaiah 46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
PS: Yes, the story of Santa Clause is real. Santa Clause is a guy with a beard who dresses up in a red suit and hands out presents at Christmas. Every year I see thousands of people dress up in red suits with beards and hand out presents at Christmas.
Anyone who thinks Santa Clause does not exist must be crazy. Just because every little detail in a story cannot be verified does not make the story false, and when major parts of the story can be verified the story is likely to be true.
2007-05-18 15:22:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Based on your sarcasm in the first line of your question, and the fact you refer to yourself as having been a Christian (past tense), and by the impatient tone in your last line, my guess is that you have no interest in listening to anything. You are probably anxiously awaiting the first person to attempt to answer your question so you can lash out with your predetermined answers. If you want to listen, then act like it.
Exactly as I figured... Do a little research. The "mind" and the "brain" are two distinct things. Psychologists have been putting this forward for years.
2007-05-18 15:20:49 · answer #4 · answered by under_mckilt 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
mind = what you think ( your brain )
body = physical vessel that has sense of sight smell hearing touch
soul = your consciousness; the things about you that make you you , that can;t be changed
ex. your brain can fight with your personal morals over a choice. Your brain might say go for it and your morals could say no you have a gf or bf at home. And your body is just there to feel it .
all in one person
2007-05-18 15:17:28 · answer #5 · answered by The Angry Stick Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is simple. You have to believe in it for it to make sense. The fact that it is all a huge fairy tale makes it very illogical. Like I tell my students when they want to know if I am a Christian, what I believe, etc " Whatever you believe in is right to you." The trinity, Jesus, the Bible are all a load of crap, but to each his own.
2007-05-18 15:22:44 · answer #6 · answered by country_girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mind body soul to be a whole person all parts must work together each are seperate from the other but together they make up the whole There is a book called "Conversations With God" by Neal D. Walsh. I really recomend this book for any one looking to find their way .
2007-05-18 15:29:06 · answer #7 · answered by pepperbdl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it begins with the monad, the one
islam and judaism stop there (notionally)
but christianity has three emanations within the monad
the father is the unknowable first cause
the spirit is his reflection, the mother who is God's face, his thought. God wanted to see himself, so she appeared as his image before him
the son is the spoken word of the mother who reflects the father, he was born through the self-reflecting of God upon himself, and so all creation was made through their co-action
Thus the totality exists within the monad even though it is one
The trinity is a divine family within the Godhead
This is the mystery of the trinity
2007-05-18 15:47:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone else said it already but it needs to be said again -
It only makes sense if you believe it. If it never made sense to you, you never believed it - even when you thought you did. No one can come up with a reasonable explanation without calling it polytheist because there is none.
2007-05-18 15:33:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grin... I'm going to play Catholic's advocate here and hit you with Buddhist philosophy, slap me when you're ready: How does the atomic structure, plus your cells, plus your bodily organs, plus your mind equal YOU?
Okay now slap me...
Edit/addition: mind functions WITH brain and body. When the body ceases to function, or function properly, or the brain, then the mind either leaves or is trapped in the non-functional body, depending on what's going on.
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2007-05-18 15:17:43 · answer #10 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋