Christians, How can God be three and yet one?

Question

I'm not asking for answers from those who don't believe in God in the first place, okay? Thanks for your respect.
So, Christians, when you try to explain to someone how God can be three and yet one, how do you do it?
I realize that a God small enough to be totally rationalized by our human minds is too small to deserve worship. Still, sometimes it is helpful to have a concrete example that we can grab hold on.
I've heard this one about the triangle with three sides still being only one triangle
and the one about the egg with three parts and i don't really like either. Their a little weak
The best one I've heard is probably the one about the sun -
We talk about the Sun, and it's Heat, and it's Light.
How can the Sun be Heat and Light too? They are one, but the heat and light are characteristics of the sun coming out of the sun, and so also Jesus and the Holy Spirit may be said to be part of God, of His manifested nature, while really they are separate things . Do you have a better one

Answer 1

the structure or formula for God is not really something we can totally fully explain easily. People have been debating the Trinity concept for many many years, even though it is not a term that we explicitly see in the Bible. What is important is how we view God's authority in our lives.

For example, you couldn't say you believe in Jesus without accepting the power and authority of the Holy Spirit, nor then could you reject God the Father's status as provider. To us mere humans, they are essentially all God. if you blaspheme the Holy Spirit you blaspheme against God. If you were to ignore Jesus sacrifice you are rejecting the Father's offer of salvation and the opportunity for restored relationship with the Father by the Holy Spirit. Such is their unity that you can't believe or follow just one "part of God" because to us they all have the same authority over our lives.

Thinking correctly about God's offer of salvation through Christ, and the promise of the Holy Spirit to change our lives is essential to understanding God's nature, because He has fully revealed himself to us through Christ and the testimony of the Holy Spirit. Pray about it, ask God to reveal himself to you through His word, and rely daily on His Spirit to lead and guide you into truth.

I hope you find the answers you are looking for...

Answer 2

I have never understood how the trinity can be taught and accepted as a realistic doctrine when scripture plainly teaches that it is impossible for the Most High God to die. Jesus died, did he not? Some say his human nature died. Okay. I believe that because that is what scripture teaches – that Jesus, the man from Nazareth died. Yet, the trinity teaches that Jesus has always been - and always will be - God Almighty. Moreover, Trinitarians teach that Jesus was fully God and fully man when he died. So, then, Trinitarians teach that God died. Yet it is impossible for God to die. So no matter what illustration is used to explain this concept, the bald fact remains: the doctrine teaches that the Most High God died. And scripture teaches that God cannot die.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 3

God has shown himself to us in 3 ways he could use 1000s as he can do what he likes he is God.
God the father is the 3 in one or center if I use an atom analogy the 0 if I used water.
Jesus (Yeshua) is his gift of salvation (yeshu'ah) which is sent in human form to the Jews also part of the nucleus or maybe a hydrogen atom and finally the holy spirit is the spirit which comes out from God to communicate with us and give us his spirit so the electron or the finial hydrogen atom in water.
the bible uses water a lot in analogy as in Jesus gives the water that Bibles up inside us. and many many more.

Answer 4

The trinity is an historical pagan theory observed into the church properly after the Bible grow to be achieved in ninety 8 C.E. (advert) In 325 CE 2 severe controversies divided the Roman Emperor Constantine's new Christian matters: the observance of the Passover on Easter Sunday, and the assumption of the Trinity. considering that a unified church grow to be necessary for a stable kingdom, the emperor referred to as the "Council of Nicea" so as to settle on those, and different concerns. The council met and voted on no remember if Jesus grow to be God or not. They effectively voted Jesus into the area of God with an modification condemning all Christians who believed interior the cohesion of God. there is even extensive evidence that maximum of people who signed this decree did not quite have faith in it or comprehend it yet theory it politically expedient to attain this. the recent Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formula ‘one God in 3 persons’ grow to be not solidly favourite, in no way totally assimilated into Christian existence and its profession of religion, merely before the tip of the 4th century. in spite of the undeniable fact that it is exactly this formula that has first declare to the call the Trinitarian dogma. between the Apostolic Fathers, there have been not something even remotely drawing close this manner of mentality or attitude.” the recent Catholic Encyclopedia admits that the Trinity "isn't. . . at once and today the observe of God." —(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299. The Illustrated Bible Dictionary documents: "The observe Trinity isn't stumbled on interior the Bible. . . It did not detect a place formally interior the theology of the church till at last the 4th century." The Encyclopedia of religion And Ethics documents: on the commencing up the Christian faith grow to be not Trinitarian. . . It grow to be not so interior the apostolic and sub-apostolic a protracted time, as meditated interior the recent testomony and different early Christian writings."

Answer 5

OK.
God...

...the FAther, the SOn and the Holy SPirit.

they say God is these three things at once. For a start, Well, it is God we are talking about!


God is the FAther - see God and the Holy SPirit as one thing [like a man and his soul].

the SOn -that's Jesus, who has come from God the father, a man of flesh and blood like us, yet is of and from GOd [the Holy SPirit is also his soul].

the Holy SPirit is that which connects itself to God the FAther and also to the SOn.
[GOd and the SOn are like the body of the Holy SPirit.]

...therefore they are all one, one in all.




Yes, it is confusing isn't it!
:o>


another way to put it is...
We are all of God.
God is what we are made of...
body, mind and spirit, we are one
Jesus, GOd and Holy SPirit, we are one.

Answer 6

Sometimes math provides answers when words fail.

Do the math:

1 X 1 X 1 = 1.

Works every time!

Answer 7

I often struggle with this as well.

On the one hand, as you mentioned, a God who can be simply understood may not be deserving of worship. On the other hand, one that is too difficult to comprehend may also not be deserving of worship. Lucky for us, our God is both and can be felt, understood, loved, and worshipped by all!

I enjoy listening to Chuck Missler's radio show "66/40" and he happens to have a set on the Trinity. Take a listen, and maybe his explanation can help you.
http://www.khouse.org/6640/BP035/

Answer 8

The bible does not teach that Jesus and The Holy Spirit are God. That is a perfect example of twisting scriptures out of their contexts. Jesus would not approve.

Answer 9

The trinity....although sometimes mysterious.....remains the truth in Scripture.

There is one God....who eternally exists in 3 distinct Personalities:

Father, Son & Holy Spirit. The 3 are never inferior to one another.

I always like to use the water picture:

When frozen.....it is ice.
When melted......it is water.
When heated up.....it becomes steam.

But all 3 retain the base element of water. And thus is the nature of God.......3 yet 1.

Answer 10

all the comparisons you listed are wrong. there a way i guess you could explain a 3 in 1 god, but thats the point. three gods in one is not meant to be understood it is meant to be a mystery.