Okay 3 parts of 1 God.
The three parts are:
1. God.
2. Jesus.
3. Holy Ghost.
Okay this is like me saying there are three parts of Jathgnos.
1. Jathgnos.
2. brain.
3. body.
You see it? I am including Jathgnos as a part of Jathgnos while attempting to explain Jathgnos as a whole.. Does that make any sense to you?
So when Christians say God has three parts, and define God as one of those parts it sounds equally strange.
2007-10-12 04:50:53 · 9 answers · asked by Green 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ebooboo94
That is correct, but it does not explain the trinity.
Here is your example:
mom consists of three parts.
1. Soccor mom.
2. Taxi driver.
3. Chef.
But it is not saying:
mom is 3 parts of 1 mom
1. mom.
2. Taxi driver.
3. Chef.
That does not make very much sense, but that pales in comparisson of having three individuals that are the same person, and that same person represents one of those three individuals.
2007-10-12 05:05:49 · update #1
It is and I thought God was not a God of confusion.
2007-10-13 04:11:42 · answer #1 · answered by Dublin Ducky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the concept of the Trinity has been a very confusing item in theology. a tough subject to talk about. even tougher to explain.
but how about an example.
Think of an egg. It has a shell, a yolk, and a white.
all separate things. but they are all part of something else. They all compose a singular thing.
Perhaps the Trinity can be explained the same. God himself is The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. They seem to be separate, but they are all part of the same thing.
that is the best that my human mind can comprehend.
2007-10-14 22:18:20 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Joshua 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is ONE: One being, three persons. A human is one being and one person: A cat or dog is one being and NO persons: God is one being and THREE persons. We can not FULLY understand the Trinity, but the scripures are pretty plain that God IS Trinity:
Jesus tells his apostles to baptize "in the name [notice, singular, not plural] of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 28:19). This is a proof-text: three distinct Persons united in the one divine name. In 2 Corinthians 13:14, Paul writes, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." We see this same unity of divine Persons in 1 Corinthians 12:4–11, Ephesians 4:4–6, and 1 Peter 1:2–3.
The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is God (cf. John 8:58, 10:38, 14:10; Col. 2:9). It also clearly teaches that the Holy Spirit is God (cf. Acts 5:3–4, 28:25–28; 1 Cor. 2:10–13). Everyone agrees the Father is God. Yet there is only one God (Mark 12:29, 1 Cor. 8:4–6, Jas. 2:19). How can we hold all four truths except to say all three are One God?
And yes, Jesus DID say he was God. In John 8:58, when quizzed about how he has special knowledge of Abraham, Jesus replies, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am"—invoking and applying to himself the personal name of God—"I Am" (Ex. 3:14). His audience understood exactly what he was claiming about himself. "So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple" (John 8:59).
Also significant are passages that apply the title "the First and the Last" to Jesus. This is one of the Old Testament titles of Yahweh: "Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Yahweh of armies: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; besides me there is no god’" (Is. 44:6; cf. 41:4, 48:12).
2007-10-12 11:54:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you are not a believer, and do not welcome it, of course it would be confusing, friend. What we have no interest in, we have no desire to learn. To a believer, it is not confusing at all, because it just is. If you study the bible, there are examples where all three were demonstrated. They all were together when Jesus Christ was being baptized by John, and when coming up from the water, the heavens opened and a voice spoke "...here is my son, whom I am very pleased..." (GOD), and a dove flew out (HOLY SPIRIT), and of course Christ was present. To the unbelievers, we, Christians,are a confusing ppl.
2007-10-12 12:01:25 · answer #4 · answered by Mookie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that they are 3 Spiritual individuals who are in perfect agreement.
Jesus prayed that His followers would be one even as He and the Father are one.
2007-10-12 12:10:02 · answer #5 · answered by tim 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, but that's over the heads of most Christians. They'll just regurgitate the church line on the trinity and think that answers the question.
2007-10-12 11:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by Meat Bot 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Trinity ISN'T Confusing 2 ALL the NUTS that (CLAIM) that they Understand it !
2007-10-14 02:31:17 · answer #7 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well a single mother can be a soccer mom, a taxi driver, and a chef but its still all the same mom!
2007-10-12 11:59:27 · answer #8 · answered by ellellelle 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No it is more correct to say this is a mystery, we cannot fathom how awesome the Trinity is and so we simply believe.
2007-10-12 11:55:56 · answer #9 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋