What's th catholic trinity? it's like god the creator, jesus the savior, and the holy spirit is the...?

Question

anything else that you know would be greatly appreciated.

No...i mean what are their roles in the holy trinity

Answer 1

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity in which the one true God is made up of three separate but equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

This belief is shared by most Christian denominations including Roman and Orthodox Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Episcopalians.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit make up the Holy Trinity.

Put simply, the Holy Trinity is "one God in three Beings."

This might seem like a schizophrenic statement but it's Catholicism's way of explaining that God has revealed Himself to mankind using three different personifications, manifestations, persons, whichever term you are most comfortable with.

These three manifestations - of the same God - are the Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit: One God in three persons.

The exact mechanics of how this works is beyond our understanding. Therefore, it is considered an Article of Faith because we know the Trinity exists even though we can't understand it or really explain it.

As simply as possible, we have God the Father. Simple enough, right?

Jesus Christ is "begotten, not made" from the Father. Catholics say "begotten, not made" because made things possess their own nature. Remember, all three Beings in the Trinity share a common Divine Nature. When something is begotten, it possesses the nature of the thing it was begotten from. Therefore, God the Father and Jesus Christ are two manifestations of the same Divine Being.

Enter the Holy Spirit, who "proceeds from the Father and the Son" Jesus. In order for the Holy Spirit to share in the Divine Nature of the Father and Jesus, the Holy Spirit MUST proceed from both the Father and Jesus. If He proceeds from either one or the other, the Holy Spirit will possess a different nature than that shared by the Father and the Son. Since the Holy Spirit begets it's nature from Both, the Holy Spirit shares the same Divine Nature as the Father and the Son

- thus all three are the same God.

This is about the simplest explanation, that does any justice to the Trinity, that you are going to hear. The Catechism of the Catholic Church has more information on the Trinity, among other things Catholic, if you are interested.

Answer 3

The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion -- the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another.

Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God." In this Trinity of Persons the Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son. Yet, notwithstanding this difference as to origin, the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent. This, the Church teaches, is the revelation regarding God's nature which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came upon earth to deliver to the world: and which she proposes to man as the foundation of her whole dogmatic system.

Answer 4

The Holy Trinity is God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit. If you take a three leaf clover and look at it, you will be able to figure out the Holy Trinity

Answer 5

The purpose of the trinity is to show they are all one and the same. Labeling God as "Creator" and Jesus as "Savior" suggests they are different. Everything is God...you can't have the christian "God" withought Jesus or the holy spirit.

That isn't the point though (sorry for that rant), to answer your question, I believe the Holy Spirit is supposed to be the love of God, brought down for man. God, as the holy spirit, came down and empowered the believers after Jesus ascended into heaven.

Answer 6

You ask a good question. The funny thing is, the Holy Spirit is the one that is among us and is most intimate with us, but He's the One we know least.


We believe in a "Personal God," that is God who is not an abstract thing or idea, but in personages like you and me. On the opposite side of the spectrum, we have evil. What is evil? Is it abstract? Is it just the collective badness of people? Is it just the absence of good, and the presence of the wrong? No. Evil exists as a person: Satan. Although, of course, Satan is not responsible for all that is bad, but rather, humans by their own free will are also responsible for choosing wrongly. Anyhow, God is not some abstract idea or energy, not like "The Universe" or "Mother Nature" that just rules around us in some broad, spiritual way. If God were indeed this abstract, it wouldn't make any sense to pray.

Check out the Nicene Creed. Its explanation of the Trinity breaks down to this:

-The Father is the Creator of Heaven and Earth, of all that is seen and unseen.
-The Son always existed with the Father, always equal to the Father, same in essence. For us, He came into the world, died by Crucifixion and rose again, and he'll return to earth at the end. Meanwhile, He's still with us through the Eucharist, in which we visit the time He died and rose again, and in which we get to receive Him into our hearts in a loving bond that was His gift to us.
-The Holy Spirit is the Giver of Life. In the Old Testament, they talk about him a lot as the "Breath of God," the "Spirit of God" and other things like that.

These three have always existed, equal to each other. But although they are equal to each other, the Father comes first in precedence, and the Spirit comes last.

Each Person of the Trinity has the fullness of God -- the Son alone is not 1/3 God, but He is 100% God. But although each of them have the fullness of all Divinity, put together, they are not three gods, but One God.

This is a difficult thing to answer. You could try reading the works of Doctors of the Church, where they discuss these things in more detail. Saint Athanasius would be a good one to look at; also Saint Augustine of Hippo and Saint Thomas Aquinas.

But take this lesson from Saint Augustine: Once, he was at the beach, pondering the mysteries of God, much like what you're trying to do. He saw a kid sitting there trying to scoop up water into a small hole in the sand that he made. He asked the kid what he's trying to do. The boy said, he's going to put all of the ocean's water into the small hole. Augustine said that it's impossible. The kid said that it's the same thing as Augustine trying to fully understand God.

In the end, we just have to understand the truths that we were given, but recognise that there are mysteries that we won't be able to get. Instead of getting stressed out by this, we just have to have trust in God and the Church that He leads, teaching it His ways.

Answer 7

God is the Father. The Son is the self knowledge God has. The Holy Spirit is the love between the Father and the Son

Answer 8

Trinity is a mystery, it's that God is but three at the same time
By the way the holy spirit is called "Paraclitus"

Answer 9

The Holy Spirit is the comforter. It is the spirit of Jesus Christ that was sent to dwell in our souls. To influence us between right and wrong. It is what some people refer to as a guarding angel. In order to receive the Holy Spirit you must confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ died for your sin and that he rose 3 days after and confess your sin to him in details. Believe what you say and get to a local church to learn more of the word of God. Also be baptised on your free will.

Answer 10

Father, Son and Holy Ghost.