Having trouble understanding the trinity?

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You have a glass with water, and ice in it. At the same time the water is evaporating. So now you have a solid, a liquid, and a gas. All three are different forms but all are still H2O. Call me lazy about the link but whatever, I really clicked on it by accident and just thought it was really good.

Answer 1

Or this...

Man was created in God's image.

There are three distinct aspects of the same, complete person; The mind, the body, and the soul.

God also has these three aspects ; The mind= the Father, The body= Jesus Christ, The Soul= The Holy Spirit, to form one singular, complete God.

Answer 2

While this may help to get a basic grasp, it is still a flawed analogy. The reason is that Father, Son and Holy Spirit exist eternally at the same time.

There is a very old heresy called modalist monarchianism which would fit nicely into this analogy. The reason for it is that it necessitates God taking different forms at different times and limits the eternality of all three members of the Godhead.

Answer 3

The trinity concept does not make sense. For the water example, its not just 1 molecule of H20, but many molecules of H20 and depending on the overall energetic state, the collection of H20 will be either sold, liquid or gas. However, in the bible, it clearly shows that God, Yesus and the holy spirit are 3 different beings with 3 different roles and they are not equal at all to each other. Yesus himself said that the father is greater. Yesus is not the father but he might be very well created from the father for the purpose of sacrifice to liberate the sins of humans.

Answer 4

Just think 3 in 1 Oil.

Answer 5

Oh boy. The trinity is like making sense of this:

A young boy is at the beach and he sets his bucket up 25 feet from the ocean on the shore. He continues to take his little plastic shovel and one at a time, scoop ocean water from the ocean putting each one into his little bucket. An older man walks by observing this odd behavior and asks the disturbed boy, "Why are you scooping up ocean water and putting it in to your bucket way up there"?

The boy yells irrationally, "I'm trying to move the ocean from over there and put it all in my bucket way over here"!

The man just shakes his head and walks away confused. This is how the trinity leaves one: confused and upset. Who wants to be confused and upset by believing that God, where is stated many times throughout the Bible, "created" his only begotten son, Jesus Christ. "When you see me", says Jesus, "You see the Father", would be God something that always was, then created (as in Jesus) then a Holy Spirit?

(There is God, and then there is his Son, Jesus Christ, and then there is the Holy Spirit that is bestowed upon those praying for it.)

Yes, when someone sees me they see my mother and they many times call me her name, "Carol! Carol!", and I turn and say, "No you've got Adara. I am her daughter, remember, heehee". They just say things like "Oh, well when I see you I see your mother". I just laugh and strike up a little convo with them.

My bros look like their dad also. Same things is said about them, plus Jesus always said: "The Father is greater than I am".

More than that, when he found himself in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient as far as death, yes, death on a torture stake.” (Phillippians 2:5-8) Again Jesus himself said: “I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.” (John 14:28)

No trouble understanding the trinity; it is a confused effort in diluting the truth, yet no trouble steering clear of it.

Answer 6

The water, ice, and steam arguement is invalid. To exist in three forms, the matter has to cool, or heat up. yet while it adopts this form, it cannot exist as the other. So how does this matter co exist as all three forms at the same instance?

Answer 7

The Father who is our protector from above

The Son who is our Saviour and takes our prayers to God after purifying them for us in his redeeming blood

The Holy Spirit who lives in us who are saved so we can have guidance to know proper Christian behavior and put us in conviction if we're doing something wrong..The Holy Spirit helps us desire what is right

Answer 8

God killed himself on the cross to save his own creations from his own wrath, one god-god, son ,spirit???
funny religion

didnt u find something in ur books that can have more than 3 forms???and didnt u find something that cannot have more than one form??

Answer 9

YA YA YA

And Somewhere Along the Line H20 (FLOATS) when "It TURNS 2 Ice" ! ! !

Answer 10

there is one God, the God of abraham, isaac and jacob. there is the messiah, who is not God, and there is the spirit of God. there is nothing complicated about this. there is no trinity. the trinity was made up by the catholic church. study the bible in it's original languages and you will be much less confused.