If Jesus is God incarnate (God in human form), then the whole trinity came to earth and died when Jesus died. Is that true?
2007-10-08 02:58:07 · 24 answers · asked by LineDancer 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
William D, if the Son died, how can there be a trinity?
2007-10-10 00:34:51 · update #1
The word trinity is not found in any Bible translation.
The term God the Son is no where to be found.
No illustration was ever given by Jesus to teach us about the trinity, and he was the Master at illustrations.
It's funny how people come up with their own illustrations to try and describe something that is not even taught in the scriptures.
It's so nice to know the truth and believe that Jehovah is God Almighty and that his only begotten Son is Jesus Christ.
2007-10-08 06:01:56 · answer #1 · answered by Jason W 4 · 8⤊ 3⤋
This is one of the first questions Christians fought over.
Yes and no...
Jesus is God in human form but that does not in anyway suggest that He is not also the Father. Isa. 9:11 he is eternal father..
I and the Father are one." he said. Now how you can separate this is not easy for us to understand. God is bigger then that. Think of Jesus as a hologram of the Father while he was here on earth. Was he really here in all fullness? Was it really him?
Was it part of Him?
These are all deep questions but the worst answer is to come up with a wrong view of the trinity.
Tertullian came up with the word in the 2 century.
But what he meant was this.. God presents himself in three different ways much like an actor in a Greek play. It is the same actor but he comes out holding a different mask.
The unity and separation of the God head will always be mysterious. Just don't let yourself think three separate Gods. This is and always has been erroneous. You do not have to use the word trinity either it is non biblical and has taken on a different meaning then the author intended it.
2007-10-08 07:18:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
This was posted the other day here @Y/A's:
Christ according to the faith, is the 2nd person of the trinity,
the Father being the 1st & the holy spirit being the 3rd.
Each of these 3 persons is God.
Christ is his own Father & his own Son.
The holy spirit is neither the Father nor the Son, but both.
The Son was begotten by the Father,
but existed before he was begotten.~~~
just the same before as after.
Christ is just as old as the Father,
and the Father is is just as young as His Son.
The holy spirit proceeded from the Father and Son,
but was not equal to the Father and Son,
but was equal to the Father and Son
before he proceeded;
that is to say
before he existed,
but he is the same age as the other two.
Nothing ever was,
nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the trinity.
Col. Robert G Ingersoll
For God is not a God of disorder,
but of peace. 1 Cor 14:33
I used the words "holy spirit" in place of "holy ghost."
2007-10-08 16:04:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Does this mean that Trinitarians believe that when Jesus died, God was only a 'Binary' at that time?
When under scrutiny, the concept of the Trinity is not consistant and just doesn't make sense. Above all, there just is no clear, undisputed evidence for the Trinity :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JWquestions_and_answers_archives/message/90
2007-10-08 15:59:44 · answer #4 · answered by tik_of_totg 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No - consider Matt 3:16-17, here is God in heaven speaking, the Spirit of God descending, and the Son of God on the earth
2007-10-08 03:05:36 · answer #5 · answered by Cuchulain 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not only God in the flesh, but the Bible tells us that Jesus was also the word of God. He's been there from the beginning. -- To try and explain it all, is the same feeling I get when I think of eternity in heaven. It's difficult to put into words.
God had to separate himself and turn his face from Jesus at the moment His beloved son died on the cross. It would have been quite painful to watch, don't you think?
God bless you with wisdom in this matter.
2007-10-08 03:09:07 · answer #6 · answered by C Sunshine 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
The Son died, separated from the Father.
That accounts for Jesus' cry from the cross, "My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me?"
At that point, God turned away from Jesus because God is Holy and cannot look upon SIN. Jesus, at that very moment, took the SIN of the whole world upon Himself and became SIN for us, so we could become the righteousness of God in Him.
God did not have to leave Heaven to come to earth.
God bless you.
2007-10-08 03:15:37 · answer #7 · answered by the sower 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
God is Spirit. Jesus Christ is His flesh. God is bigger than all He created. He is farther than the fartherest thing He created. All of God cannot live in one human flesh. He is everywhere there is anywhere. Jesus Christ came through the earthlly woman (Mary) and the Holy Spirit. Holy Ghost must be God. (Who is the Father of Jesus?) That narrows it down to two. Then, the first chapter of St John tells us explicetlly that Jesus and God are one and the same. Pay attention to V. 1, 10, 14.
2007-10-08 10:17:31 · answer #8 · answered by spiritwoman343 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No Jesus actually prayed to God the father in heaven.
3 parts God the father analogy Brain
God the son Body
God the holy spirit Soul
2 parts were on Earth son and spirit.
My thoughts man was made in this image 3 parts in one Brain, body, soul
2007-10-08 03:03:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Jesus gave up his body when he was resurrected to heaven so how can the body be a part of the trinity as some are saying.?
2007-10-08 17:00:48 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋