Is the Trinity so confusing because people try to make a Polytheistic concept into a Monotheistic one ?

Question

Like trying to explain to people that 3 really means 1.

If you just come out a say 3 = 3 then there is no more confusion !!

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Answer 1

i think its simple myself .. we have a spirit soul and body ... so does God ..

Answer 2

Nope, the trinity is based on evidence in the bible.

Many pagan gods and goddesses did have "three aspects", which is probably why you're thinking of polytheism.

I like to use a flatland analogy-- if you stick a finger into a 2-D world, the flatlanders will see a line, walk around it, know it's a circle, but it will disappear and grow and when the finger's above the plane, the flatlanders don't know it exists-- unseen, unfelt.
But the finger could also touch the flatlanders without being in the plane itself, and move them "mysteriously" without ever being seen.

So that's 3 ways the flatlanders could talk about the same finger and to them they are completely different things yet somehow united, in a way they can't understand.

Once you understand the 3 aspects is how we understand God, rather than God being "three" things, just an unifed deity with an existence beyond our own, it makes sense.

Three is an "beyond" number for us--we so often see the world as dual-- male, female; light and dark.

But 3 always means the other, the unity of all opposite pairs, and transcending. Male and female= human. Day and night= time.

So it is very natural for humans in most religions to see God as a third party, as having 3 parts.

"The alpha and omega" of the bible also implies that God also encompasses everything in between. After all, He IS.

I don't think the trinity is hard, unless people try and debate the theology behind it. Biblical analysis takes years to learn and master, and it's not something you can argue in 2 minutes, especially to people who will point to one verse and interpret it completely differently.

St. Patrick was capable of showing the Irish how God was one by showing them a shamrock and how the 3 leaflets made up a unifed leaf. But honestly they already knew, anyway ;).

Answer 3

So a father cannot be a father and a husband and a son and a man.

Does this mean that everyone who believes that a person cannot be a father and a husband and a son MUST kill their parents to be married since a person cannot be a son and a husband at the same time?

Or does this mean that once you have a child with a woman you must kill the woman since you cannot be both a husband and a father at the same time?

Oh, and if you have parents do you have to have a sex change operation since you cannot be both a man and a son? Wait, then you would be both a daughter and a son and a man and a woman so you would really be 4 in 1, right?

Amazing how people can be people and children and spouses and parents all at once but God can not. God must be less than people?

You should just kill yourself and put yourself out of your misery if you can't be more than one thing at a time.

Answer 4

It rather would be much less confusing.. humorous how basically some human beings here rather responded the question JR poses an thrilling question, and quietness in the previous the typhoon makes an thrilling factor, whilst Coralsnayk made no experience in besides... i don't get how One as against Trinity is a logical paradox...... ? try giving Polytheism and Monotheism very sparkling and distinctive definitions, then ask a great variety of christians on their awareness of Trinity and what precisely they have faith (and worship), and spot if what they say falls into the two of your 2 definitions... If it incredibly is nonetheless confusing, properly..... why argue over the religion's class? polytheism, monotheism.. despite you call it the assumption-approximately Trinity will nonetheless proceed to be confusing even to many christians

Answer 5

The trinity is wrong that is why it cannot be explained.
How can you believe these scriptures and say that god is three in one.


Jesus was created the almighty has always been here, these are the scriptures to prove it.


(Colossians 1:15-17) . . .5 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 16 because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all [other] things and by means of him all [other] things were made to exist,

(Revelation 3:14) 14 “And to the angel of the congregation in La·o·di·ce´a write: These are the things that the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God,

(Acts 7:55) 55 But he, being full of holy spirit, gazed into heaven and caught sight of God’s glory and of Jesus standing at God’s right hand,

(Revelation 1:1) 1 A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent forth his angel and presented [it] in signs through him to his slave John,

(Revelation 7:10) 10 And they keep on crying with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation [we owe] to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.”

Answer 6

No, its confusing because the public education system is no longer based on Plato and Aristotle. In the 4th century, you couldn't get a job as a fruit seller without reading the entire Aristotelian corpus. Back then, even the lowest Greek-speaking peasant on the street knew what the debate was about.

And why on earth would you think that 'monotheism' mattered? It may seem like an important issue today, but back then it was irrelevant. There was no motivation whatsoever to justify monotheism.

Answer 7

The trinity is not a polytheistic concept as they are all aspects of the same deity.

Christians are Polytheistic in that they have more than one deity. Even if they do not like it, Satan is a deity within their Bible. He may be a negative Deity to them, but he is still a deity with all the powers of a god.

Christians are Pantheistic. They have a hard time seeing this, but Pantheism is having more than one aspect of Deity and recognizing this as individual entities. Ie... Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Elshaddai, Eloheim, Jehovah, etc.

Answer 8

If one would read the Gospels, the first four books of the New Testament, there would be no confusion because first one accepts God, then Jesus who said he would send a comforter, which could be the Holy Spirit. All three are of the divinity we call God thus it follows that we include all three in the worship process. However too many don't read the four before they begin to question.

Answer 9

GOD CREATED ALL!
Including Jesus and the Holy Ghost.
It says in the Bible that Jesus got his job because he was the only angel that had not committed a sin.
There are over 500 places in the NT that state that God is God and Jesus is Jesus. But as though out the OT people want to have an image of God. So many have made Jesus a god they can see. (If he had long hair as most modern pictures show him today, he would have been in sin.)
But how could Jesus be God IF he is sitting beside himself in Heaven?
Why did Jesus say "he dose not know when the end of the world will be, only God dose"?
Do you believe that when God said "This is my son." that Jesus was being a ventriloquist?
Read your Bible and find out for yourself.

Answer 10

It took 600 years to come up with that formulation.
The definition was intended to reconcile 3 observations.
1) The Jewish revelation (Shemai) was that GOD is one.
2) That Jesus referred to God as Father was scandalous.
But when he rose from the dead in 3 days, as he predicted,
then ascended into Heaven, he was accepted as divine.
3) The Holy Spirit was given as a new form of Baptism.
There are three distinct persons, but only one GOD.

Answer 11

It's a bit more complicated than just that.

The trinity is actually pretty easy to comprehend.

Let's say you own 3 businesses, x, y, and z, and you are the sole employee of each. It could be said that you ARE business x, y and z, since you alone own each, and you alone work for each.

Now, x, y, and z are still separate businesses, each having their own financial statements, each having their own product, and each having their own income. But, it could be said that the three are still one, (that "one" being you), since you alone are the owner of each, and you alone work for each.

I hope that helps a little.

If you like math, though, try this: 1x1x1 = 1