Do you believe that Jesus, his father and the Holy Spirit are one?
Do you believe that Jesus, his father and the Holy Spirit are one?
Please explain this to me.
(a) Jesus = Father = Holy Spirit = One.
(b) Jesus + Father + Holy Spirit = One.
(c) Jesus ≠ Father ≠ Holy Spirit ≠ One
(d) Jesus ≠ Father ≠ Holy Spirit = One
Where ‘One’ is equivalent to God.
Which is the correct answer?
Note: Please don’t confuse me again, if you don’t know the answer, just skip it and wait for the Holy Spirit to inspire you.
2007-12-13 03:46:24 · 12 answers · asked by One God! 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I do believe that 1 =1=1= One, but 1+1+1= Three
and there is no mathematical expression being it algebraic, geometrical or statistical that can prove that THREE is equal to ONE.
But ⅓ + ⅓ + ⅓ = 1
Therefore,
If Jesus + Father + Holy Spirit = One, and Jesus = Father = Holy Spirit, then
Jesus = ⅓
Father = ⅓
Holy Spirit = ⅓
and to agree with this expression we most get rid of the first option.
Let’s take the first option, (a) Jesus = Father = Holy Spirit = One. In the Holy bible, there are so many verses that differentiate these three things,
“Who ever ….; and who ever receives me, receives NOT ME but Him who SENT me.”
Mark 9:37
this shows Jesus was sent, and he is not equivalent to the one who sent him. If they are equivalent, he will not reject it.
And also, Jesus was saying some thing while he was about to be crucified.
“Abba, father, all things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me; never the less, not what I will, but what you will.”
Mark 14:36
this shows the son can not do every thing he wills, but what the father wills.
And Jesus is not God, because he said:
“Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God.”
Mark 10:45
Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not the same;
“And any one who speaks a word against the son of man, it will be forgiven him; but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven”.
Luke 12:10
“I will no longer talk much with you for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in me”.
John 14:30
“For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me”.
John 6:38
Therefore, Jesus and God are not the same.
I really need to know the difference between ONE and THREE. Is God one or three? If God is one but in three different forms, or has three parts, can any of the three forms/parts be called “God”? Some one was given an example with a flower or tree that contains some branches. If we can look at it from that angle, a tree with 3 branches, can any of the branches be called a tree?
The branches are literally branches (not tree for none possesses its independent root and trunk) and share the same roots and stem. Without that there will be no tree. So every tree is made up of leaves, stem, root, branches and so on.
Then if God is one made up by the father, the son and the Holy Spirit, none of this three can be called God, for they have to combine before forming a single thing called “God”.
My brethren, I hope you will stop contradicting people in which you your self can not explain because you did not understand.
God bless you, I do believe in God, but he is alone, he has no partner.
2007-12-13 03:50:15 · answer #1 · answered by bafodiye 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As confusing as it may seem, it is both a and part b...
b- in the sense that Jesus=/= Father=/=Holy Spirit.
They are not all the same thing as Jesus=His Father is just non-sense but they are together as One. Each part does a different job than another. It is a) because altogether they make up the Trinity known as God which sometimes can be used as God meaning the Father. That is why there is a lot of confusion- God is used meaning both the Trinity and the Father.
2007-12-13 03:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is infinite, He can't be reduced to a mathematical equation. The doctrine of the Trinity is simple to believe but impossible to fully comprehend.
The fourth Hebrew word of the Bible is "Elohim" which means "God in totality". God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, (one God, three Persons) were involved in creation. Genesis 1:26 says; "Let US make man in our own image.."
When the Lord Jesus Christ gave the great commission He said, ".... Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the NAME (singular) of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." (Matthew 28:19)
2007-12-13 04:10:43 · answer #3 · answered by truthsayer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think they are all areas of one entity and that all of them serve a distinctive objective. Jesus is the actual type that became sent here to die for persons's sins and to set an occasion of ways Christians are meant to stay there lives, God is the author, and the Holy Spirit is in spirit type and lives on your heart and publications you so as which you're making the appropriate possibilities in existence. i'm hoping that is sensible, i'm unable to in any respect seem to describe that ok.
2016-11-03 03:30:42 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit...they're all One...One God. God serving in different capacities.
2007-12-13 04:00:27 · answer #5 · answered by Gail R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The easiest way to explain the trinity is that they are 3 entities which make up one person.
Take an egg as an example (I am not saying they are an egg) but you will get my point
There is 3 parts the shell, White and Yolk. that is 3 different parts but they still make up the egg.
Hope this helps.
2007-12-13 03:55:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are ONE in their shared divinity. They are THREE in their separate and individual personhoods.
See St. Patrick's explanation via the shamrock. It's still the best one around for trying to explain what is essentially a mystery far too complex for the finite human mind.
2007-12-13 03:55:09 · answer #7 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of the above. Jesus never claimed to be equal to God, the holy spirit isn't even a person but God's active force that he uses to inspire us and to make his will happen. The "father" is God himself and alone. Jesus is in union with the father the same way he is in union with those who truly worship Jehovah (which is Gods name) Psalms 83:18
John 14 -
15 “If YOU love me, YOU will observe my commandments; 16 and I will request the Father and he will give YOU another helper to be with YOU forever, 17 the spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receive, because it neither beholds it nor knows it. YOU know it, because it remains with YOU and is in YOU. 18 I shall not leave YOU bereaved. I am coming to YOU. 19 A little longer and the world will behold me no more, but YOU will behold me, because I live and YOU will live. 20 In that day YOU will know that I am in union with my Father and YOU are in union with me and I am in union with YOU. 21 He that has my commandments and observes them, that one is he who loves me. In turn he that loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will plainly show myself to him.”
2007-12-13 04:00:50 · answer #8 · answered by Lexpressive 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I believe it.
"A" is the correct anser.
(a) Jesus = Father = Holy Spirit = One.
2007-12-13 03:50:12 · answer #9 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
One in what way? In the way that the Apostles were commanded to be one? or in the way that married couples are commanded to be one? Define your terms.
2007-12-13 04:39:42 · answer #10 · answered by Mike B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋