Question for Christians....?

Question

Do you believe in the trinity? Why or why not?Do you believe in the Bible? I think that if you believe in the Bible, you have to believe in the trinity, because the Bible refers to it. When God decided to create man, He said, "Let us make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness" (Gen. 1:26)After Adams sin God said that "that man is become as one of US, to know good and evil."(Gen.3:22) At the tower of Babel God said, "Go to , let US go down, and there confound their language" From the New Testament....God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit were all present at Christ's baptism (Matt.3:16-17) Before His ascension, Christ alluded to the Trinity when He told His people to baptize converts"in the name of the Father,and of the Son,and of the Holy Ghost"(Matt.28:19) and 2Cor.13:14 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all"

The Apostle Peter showed that all three persons of the Trinity are at work in salvation:

The Father chooses us, the blood of christ redeems us, and the Holy Spirit sanctifies us. Believers are "elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ" (1Pet.1:2) Why would the Bible speak of three persons in the Godhead and always the same three? The reason is clear--God is three in one.

The Trinity
Trinity is a special word meaning "God in Three Persons," as the hymn says. Each person of the Trinity--Father,Son and Holy Spirit--is fully God. Yet each also fulfills a distinct role in the Godhead. Three perons-one essence. The doctrine of the Trinity humbles us in our frail attempts to know God. He is so far above what our minds can comprehend: the doctrine of the Trinity is only one example of His greatness.

herfinator, taz:

thanks for being honest. I appreciate it. And I probably could have come up with a better way of wording eveything. I guess I just didn't think about how I was writing it.

Answer to your 1st paragraph:No, man isn't part of that trinity."our image,our likeness" & "that man became as one of us" You say that MUST mean that we're part of the god-head?Do you really think that?
"our image,our likeness" & "that man became as one of us"means that we have some "likeness" to God.We have a soul, mind & a body. Like there is the Holy Spirit, God the Father and Jesus the Son all in one. Oh,about the "three headed people" I didn't say God was walking around & He had one body & three heads did I?

Anyways, Jesus getting babtized. What in the world does John being His cousin and being 3 months older than He is have to do with Him getting babtized?(If you think thats important, tell me why it is. I really do want to know why it does to you)
No, JESUS didn't transform into a bird.The HOLY SPIRIT came down as a dove.As I said before God is "three in one", God the Father,God the Son & God the Holy Spirit.You obciously know what the Bible said, the Holy Spirit as a dove "ali

alighted" upon Him(Matt.)another word used to describe it is "remained" on Him.(John).Look, how the trinity works is hard to understand, from what you've said you don't know much about it.I know, its hard for me to too. There is much about God that we don't know about. But,we accept Gods Word by FAITH. Pretty much what you're saying is there's no way God could do that...what the Bible said He did He DID.Your saying the Bible's not true & that God isn't all-powerful. Do you believe that He healed people?or that He walked on the water?

John14:28 "You have heard Me say to you, 'I am going away coming back to you,' If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, 'I am going to the Father,' for My Father is great than I." (READ John5:18, Phil.2:6) He wan't admitting to inferiority to the Father(after claiming equality agian and agian).(READ John28:7-11)but was saying that if the deciples loved Him, they wouldn't be reluctant to let Him go to the Father because He was returning to the r

realm where He belonged & to the full glory He gave up.(READ John17:5)He was going back to share equal glory w/ the Father which would be greater then what He experienced in His incarnation. He will in no way be inferior in that glory, because His humiliation was over.

Matt.24:36......
The exact day & time of Christs return no one knows the time Christ is returning won't be revealed to any man. At this time, it was known ony to God the Father, when Jesus spoke these words to the desciples,even He had no knowledge of the date & time of His return. Although Jesus was fully God(John1:1,14)when He became man, He voluntarily restricted the use of certain divine attribute(Phil.2:6-8)He didn't manifest them unless directed by the Father(John.4:34;5:30;6:38),He demonstrated His omniscience on several occasions(John2:25;3:13),but He voluntarily restricted that omniscience to only those things God wanted Him to know during the days of His humanity,(John15:15). Such was the case regarding the k

Such was the case regarding the knowledge of the date & time of His return. After He was resurrected, Jesus resummed His full divine knowledge.

No, I'm fine w/ my position, would you like to change yours? And don't just "LOOK" at the verse referances, acctually READ them.

this is in answer to GRNLOW

Answer 1

Ummm . . . I agree with you, but to be honest, it doesn't seem like a question. All Christians in this day and age should be careful how they present Christianity, with everyone else taking any reason at all to criticize (and not constructively) any aspect possible.

Answer 2

Interesting. Your quotes of Gen. ch.s 1 & 3, does that also mean man is part of that trinity? After all, "our image, our likeness" and "that man became as one of us" must mean we are part of that god-head as well. Are there any 3 headed humans walking about?

What about Jesus as a human getting baptized by his cousin John? John was 6 months older than Jesus. Does that mean he was older than God? That would make him God's cousin at least, would it not?

After Jesus came up from the water, did he transform into a bird? The Bible does say holy spirit came down like a dove on top of Jesus' head. Did he sit on his own head? If all 3 are the same being, he must have sat on his own head. Then too, he must have been some kind of ventriloquist. For while he sat upon his own head, he threw his voice so it sounded like it was coming from heaven as all there heard a loud voice say, "This is my son, whom I have approved." Well it is certainly nice to know he approved of himself or themselves, what with Jesus sitting on top of his own head and all.

But then there are those pesky things that Jesus said like in John 14:28 where he said "My Father is greater than I am."
Also that section in Matthew 24:36 talking about the time of God's cleaning of the earth of wickedness. That no one knows the exact time, not even the Son, but only the Father knows. If ever there was a case of the right hand not knowing what the left one was doing.... that's it. Jesus was holding secrets from himself?

Maybe you should rethink your position.

Answer 3

Yes, i completely believe in the Trinity, because all three are of the same importance. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Answer 4

Look up 1 John 5:7 for trinity

Answer 5

Of course, for all the reasons you say, and because even with our frail minds it should be easy to see one body made up of three attributes. Although any analogy of God is flawed at best, the things we can perceive make it obvious that God can be one being with three attributes.

water - H2O - can be steam, ice, liquid
man - body, soul, spirit

These are both poor examples of an infinitely awesome God, but there is no excuse for those who behold the creation not to understand the trinity as one.

Of course there are many copies of this throughout other religions, but our adversary knew the way God would save His elect, because in the garden of Eden God proclaimed it. He set out to create false copies in order to ensnare those who would fall for his trap by counterfeiting it within many false religions and earthly deities. This forum attests to his conquest of many toward his goal. See below for an example.

Answer 6

You asked your question and then answered it so what is the point. If your just putting your thoughts down then that's fine. However I think all Christians believe in The Father the Son and the Holly Spirit.

Answer 7

I believe in the Word of God only. The trinity is of the doctrine of men.

It is written, God is not a God of confusion.

For God to say, he begat his son, when it really was himself is promoting confusion and is not of God.

If the Father was to come to earth, he would not come posing as his son. He would have plainly told us so as to note promote confusion.

Answer 8

TRINITY=man woman and child.....remember their were more children, in that family.

So who was god? who was the holy sprit and who was the child?
You scratch the surface....

Where was his philosphy "borrowed" from?
what statues did they "white wash to conseal the truth?" some are still standing...but where? who translated some of the bible for the Greeks?

The last line is indeed correct....

Answer 9

No word we can come up with could ever encompass the awesome mystery that is God.
God is One, He is Three, He is singular and plural both at the same time.

Answer 10

All I know is that we know less of the Bible then we know more of. The Bible is about to renew itself and teach mankind something we've never imagined we would learn from Who we call God.