If the trinity is a mystery to catholics, then how come when someone like myself explains the mystery of the trinity to the them they usually say ,"No, thats not how it is." ? Why do they act like they suddenly understand the msytery of the trinity? How can they say, " No, thats not how it is" when they themselves are the ones calling it a mystery? Seems to me that if they could say. " No, thats not how it is" then they should be able to say how it is..and if they could say how it is, then if wouldnt be a mystery anymore...but to them, it still is a mystery because they call it...the msytery of the trinity.
2007-10-01 01:29:41 · 10 answers · asked by biblestudent07 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Trinity is a mystery too ALL Christians- Catholic and otherwise.
A mystery in religious terms means something where God can be seen a t work, but we as humans can never fully comprehend this side of Heaven.
Over the years there have been various heresies relating to the Trinity, these can be easily identified and refuted without having to claim a full understanding of the Trinity.
2007-10-01 07:14:02 · answer #1 · answered by Mommy_to_seven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are using the wrong definition of "mystery" in this sense.
The definition you should be using is:
"A religious truth that is incomprehensible to reason and knowable only through divine revelation." (definition 6, American Heritage Dictionary)
Also, no matter how you try to define the trinity, you are going to fall short of the full truth, so it's not surprising to me that some see your explanation as faulty. You may be right, but you're not complete. Does that make more sense?
2007-10-01 08:39:27 · answer #2 · answered by King James 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The reason the trinity is a mystery is because it not true the bible doesnt support that doctrine isnt it funny that the word trinity doesnt appear in the bible deuterony 6:4 clearly states that there is one God not three..
2007-10-01 08:53:54 · answer #3 · answered by sceneofdarhyme 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The real mystery is why someone would believe that there is a trinity.
2007-10-01 08:38:16 · answer #4 · answered by ƴℏḉя@ηα ḯṫṥḯянℭ 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
OK, after looking to see how you "explain" trinity, it sounds like an early Christian HERESY called Sabellianism.
Keep studying and maybe you'll eventually get a glimpse of the COMPLEXITY of "God."
The "Father," Jesus, and the Spirit are all referred to in scripture as "God," but they are NOT the SAME "person."
2007-10-01 08:47:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What I find hard to understand is that everyone accepts "trinity" right? But what about Mother God?
2007-10-01 08:33:55 · answer #6 · answered by Spirit Dancer 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Trinity can never be explained.
I always get this answer from Christians:
"You have to believe to understand"
But they believe and cannot explain!!
2007-10-01 08:35:48 · answer #7 · answered by Ahmed A 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here is what we do know about the Trinity.
Athanasian Creed
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1. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith;
2. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
3. And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity;
4. Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance.
5. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit.
6. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is all one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.
7. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit.
8. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated.
9. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible.
10. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal.
11. And yet they are not three eternals but one eternal.
12. As also there are not three uncreated nor three incomprehensible, but one uncreated and one incomprehensible.
13. So likewise the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty.
14. And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty.
15. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God;
16. And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
17. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Spirit Lord;
18. And yet they are not three Lords but one Lord.
19. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord;
20. So are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say; There are three Gods or three Lords.
21. The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten.
22. The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten.
23. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
24. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits.
25. And in this Trinity none is afore or after another; none is greater or less than another.
26. But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal.
27. So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
28. He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity.
29. Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
30. For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man.
31. God of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of substance of His mother, born in the world.
32. Perfect God and perfect man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting.
33. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His manhood.
34. Who, although He is God and man, yet He is not two, but one Christ.
35. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of that manhood into God.
36. One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person.
37. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ;
38. Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead;
39. He ascended into heaven, He sits on the right hand of the Father, God, Almighty;
40. From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
41. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies;
42. and shall give account of their own works.
43. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire.
44. This is the catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
2007-10-01 08:39:51 · answer #8 · answered by cristoiglesia 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A super natural thing cannot be sufficiently explained naturally
In plane english it is what it is
2007-10-01 12:40:53 · answer #9 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Mystery" for Catholics doesn't mean they await an explanation from a nonCatholic; it means they perceive the concept or issue to be "an article of faith or doctrine which defies man’s ability to grasp. It can also refer to a belief which while it can be understood, deeper meaning can be gathered from meditating upon it."
2007-10-01 08:39:06 · answer #10 · answered by SC 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋