What is your VIEW of the Trinity?

Question

This is just a fact finding question. I'm not asking whether or not you BELIEVE in the trinity, I'm asking believers in the trinity to describe what it is, as they understand it. Based on the many questions AND responses I've read here there is no one definition/description of it.

Thank you.

Answer 1

I was just going through some of the illustrations and analyzing them......

ginny3282- "Father. is.......God..............Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit is God.................and like you have a last name ......they are all God ...........like a husband and wife are one and carry the same last name so does the trinity............and the husband and wife have a spirit................"

What about your husband's brothers and THEIR wives with the same last name? And THEIR sons and THEIR wives and THEIR sons and THEIR wives.....? Are they ALL part of the 'one'?


!! you make me smile!!- "trinity its the combining of putting 3 things into 1..........examlples of trinity cna be found everywhere one example is TIME: it is composed of minutes, seconds,and hours."

Hours are greater than minutes which are greater than seconds- where is the equality there? (What about DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, YEARS? MILLISECONDS? They are part of time too.)

K For Him- God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit
1X1X1=1

Matthew 28:19 mentions the Father AND the Son AND the holy spirit...... From my maths (and I only finished that just a year ago) I was taught that "AND" means to ADD, you could multiply when there is "OR". So following your mathematical line of thinking, the trinity is 1+1+1=1, which would get you an F in any exam!!!

ajw- "God is a tri part Creator, separate but equal. An egg is a illustration....yolk,shell,white. Each part is an egg but separate"

An egg consists of a yolk, shell and albumen (egg white), ok. But the yolk on its own is NOT an egg. The shell on its own is NOT an egg. The albumen on its own is just a mass of amino acids, NOT an egg. Following this egg analogy, that means the Father on his own is NOT God, Jesus on his own is NOT God and the holy spirit on its own is NOT God. Hmmmm....... I wonder whether the other Trinitarians would agree with that?

Okay- so we've had Sociology, Math and Biology- let's have some Physics now, shall we?

Edge- "One God existing in three forms simultaneously. Think of water. Have you ever heard of the triple point of water? It is a set of specific conditions. However at the triple point water exist as a liquid, solid, and gas. Three separate forms but they one underlying nature. In any for it is still h20. God is the same. God exists as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Three forms but one underlying nature which is God"

I was not really so good at Physics- but I remember that the triple point of water (at 273.16 K) means that the three states are in EQUILIBRIUM- not EQUAL! It means the steam (gas phase) is not losing any more heat, the liquid phase is neither gaining heat from the steam nor losing heat to the ice and the ice is not gaining heat from the liquid or gas phases. Yes, they are one substance (H2O), (God and Jesus are spirit beings- same substance, okay), but they are not ONE, but THREE. The steam is NOT the liquid and NOT the solid, and vice-versa and vice-versa.

The rest of the answers were speculative, so I'll leave those alone.

Oh boy- what a confusing teaching!!!

Answer 2

People who claim to believe in the trinity, don't know what it really is. To some, it simply means "The Son and the Father and the Holy Spirit = one true God." To explain the trinity, some use silly analogies like the three parts of h2o (water), an egg, or a triangle. Some even try to use mathematical equations like "1x1x1=1" and "1+1+1=1."

But is that all there is to the trinity? The Catholic Encyclopedia calls the Trinity teaching “the central doctrine of the Christian religion,” defining it this way:

“In the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another. Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: ‘the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God.’ . . . The Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent.”

Ask trinitarians to find ONE scripture that says that God is made up of three distinct persons, Father, Son, and holy spirit, but that the three are only one God. Also, ask them to find ANY scripture that says that the Father, Son, and holy spirit are equal in all ways, such as in eternity, power, position, and wisdom. They can't do it.

The reason why the trinity can't be proved by the Bible is because it did not come into existence until the mid-4th century, over 300 years after the Bible had been completed. As A Catholic Dictionary says: “The true divinity of the third Person was asserted at a Council of Alexandria in 362, . . . and finally by the Council of Constantinople of 381.”

Answer 3

The Trinity has been attempted-to-be described (even by the Catholic church), but no one as a human can describe the Trinity because it is beyond human comprehension. The Trinity is ONE God, not three.

Answer 4

My view on the Trinity ?

God is a trinity of persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is not the same person as the Son; the Son is not the same person as the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit is not the same person as Father. They are not three gods and not three beings. They are three distinct persons; yet, they are all the one God. Each has a will, can speak, can love, etc., and these are demonstrations of personhood. They are in absolute perfect harmony consisting of one substance. They are coeternal, coequal, and copowerful. If any one of the three were removed, there would be no God.

Jesus, the Son, is one person with two natures: Divine and Human. This is called the Hypostatic Union. The Holy Spirit is also divine in nature and is self aware, the third person of the Trinity.


The word "person" is used to describe the three members of the Godhead because the word "person" is appropriate. A person is self aware, can speak, love, hate, say "you," "yours," "me," "mine," etc. Each of the three persons in the Trinity demonstrate these qualities.

Answer 5

The Trinity is basically all about how God knows and loves Himself. It is also a simultaneous and ongoing event with no process coming before or after another. God is aware of His existence in that He knows Himself by projecting an image of Himself in the form of a begotton Son. Love proceeds from the two as an equal and mutually love affair among all three. We assign person to each of these entities within God since we are a person and, as a person, we cannot be superior to even the internal thoughts of God, since there is still only ONE God. This concoction of Love becomes the basis of creation.

Answer 6

The Son and the Father and the Holy Spirit = one true God.

As the word Trinity is nowhere n the Bible, the concept of trinity is throughout of the Bible. The concept was intruguced little by little so people would not mistake God of Abraham as a three god concept.

Answer 7

One God existing in three forms simultaneously. Think of water. Have you ever heard of the triple point of water? It is a set of specific conditions. However at the triple point water exist as a liquid, solid, and gas. Three separate forms but they one underlying nature. In any for it is still h20. God is the same. God exists as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Three forms but one underlying nature which is God.

Answer 8

Straight from the Bible itself:

1John 5:7 "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."

Answer 9

Polytheism

Answer 10

God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit
1X1X1=1

If you are looking for a perfect description, stop looking for no one can truly describe the perfect union of our Holy Thrice God!!!