Why do Christians believe in the Trinity when Jews don't even have a "binity"?

Question

(Please no Atheists or Hijackers as this is a serious question that I would like Christians to only to answer)

Certainly the Father and Holy Spirit would have been recognized in Jewish texts before Christ was born to complete the Trinity.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Christians believe it because God has revealed this. He first laid the foundation of monotheism - vital, because every other group on earth apart from the Hebrews were polytheists and worshipped the creation rather than the creator. After a few thousand years of monotheism it is understandable that the further revelation of just who Jesus Christ was took a while to sink in. Doubting Thomas's exclamation to the risen Christ, 'My Lord and my God!' is one of the early affirmations.

And, right from Day One in Genesis 1, the Holy Spirit was active in creation; in speaking to the prophets; in the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire in the wilderness; in the Holy of Holy in the Temple, in all the writings of the prophets. Come on - have you never read the Old Testament? The Jews have and they know full well about the Holy Spirit! It's Jesus they have problems with. But Jesus was part of the triune Godhead before the universe was created, for he was the Word of God, of whom the apostle John says, 'In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.'

Answer 2

You hit the nail right on the head, since Christians worship the same God that the Jews did. Not all Christians believe that, it's mostly the "old school" religions like Baptist, Pentecostal and Catholic. When I was 12 and attending a Baptist church, I asked the Pastor about the Holy Spirit, and he said it was a "mystery."

Well the mystery has been solved in this 21st century. It ain't so! It's a carry over from Pagan infiltration of the state religion of Christendom under Emperor Constantine. But since it has been on the books so long, they figure it must be true. Thanks to organizations like the Jehovah's Witnesses that expose false doctrine a lot of new explanations (none of which make sense) have been expounded. Some how these Christians have blinders on when you point out the Pagan origin of the theme.

I always say, 1+1+1=1 in the mind of a trinitarian. One of them shot back with, oh no, it's 1x1x1=1. Ok: 1 God x1=1 God, x1=1God x1=1 God. It's still one God. You can't say God x Jesus x the Holy Spirit = God, it's illogical, and so is the trinity concept in a monotheist religion.

Edit: Baserunner3, you said it all, "Traditions of Men" like the Pharisees and the Saducees, which Christ Jesus condemned.

Answer 3

Jewish people believe in one God. They do not recognize Jesus as the son of God, since Jesus was a mortal. They don't see him as a Holy Spirit either, for the same reason. The Jewish Bible consists mainly of the five books of Moses, or the Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. There is no mention of a Holy Spirit in Jewish texts, nor do they make any special notice of the birth of Christ. The Jews are still waiting for their Messiah to come, but it is not Jesus Christ. They actually don't know who it will be, nor do they try to guess.

Answer 4

No, the 'holy spirit' in the sense that you mean it would not have been in the Old Testament or any Jewish texts. You seem to forget that Christianity did not develop until a fair time after Jesus died.

Thus these inherently Christian concepts did not appear in the Old Testament. Jewish people do not recognise any 'trinity'. We believe in one G-d and only one G-d.

Answer 5

Some Jews believed in a part of God they referred to as the "Shekinah". This was sort of like a Holy Spirit and was supposed to be especially present in the Temple in Jerusalem.

I've never actually heard of any christians saying that they think this may have been the Holy Spirit, but it sort of sounds like something similar.

Interestingly, it also sort of seems that it was believed to be female in nature, (perhaps the missing Mother in the family?).

Answer 6

Because Jesus wasn't born to the world yet. The Trinity always existed and always will, but God did not find it fit to reveal himself as a Trinity until Christ, who showed himself as the second person of the holy Trinity.

And the Holy Spirit wouldn't have been revealed before Christ was revealed because the Holy Spirit is the love between the Father and Christ. It wouldn't make sense to reveal the Love between the two but not one of the two.

Answer 7

We recognize God and not God the father, son etc. He is one God. We don' t have a "binity".

Christians came up with the a strange version of he trinity when Jesus died and did not fulfill the prophesy as he was to do. They had to come up with something to make it make sense and the trinity was adopted.

Answer 8

The old testament does refer to the trinity or at least that someone else is there with God. Below it says "let us" who was God talking to if not Christ and the Holy Spirit?

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

It also mentions the Spirit of God. Which seems to me to be the Holy Spirit.

Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Answer 9

God revealed Himself in stages as the chosen people matured from glory to glory.
The most Blessed Trinity is prefigured in the Old Testament in the visit to Abraham of the Three men (angels) in the "we" Elohim (plural name for God) in the creation myth and also in many other places.

Answer 10

Genesis 1:2
The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

The Spirit of God is with God from the very beginning .