how can the holy trinity be one?

Question

you know more about the subject then i do, but dont b.s. i will be researching the answers

u can give lenty of examples of how one thing can be 3 (like u did with water and pie) i understand that. but how can 3 gods be one god. it sounds like polythiesm. + if u want to say just belive it then, i ask what to belive, do u pray to 3 or one, if i was a christian i would feel a need to know this answer if i wanted to pray to god. otherwise i wouldnt know who to pray to

Answer 1

It cannot be done. If Jesus was God then we have to accept the fact that God or a part of God Died...which is an Impossibility. We also have to accept that When God spoke to Moses telling him that " No man can See me and yet live" was a LIE. What he should have said to Moses was, well you cannot see me but people in the future will see my other Co-equals namely Jesus and the Holy spirit in the form of a Dove or tongues of fire some 4 thousand years from Now.
The entire concept is totally absurd.

Answer 2

Just pray to God,Jesus,or the Holy Spirit either is right,they are all one ..God is the Great I am which means he is everthying.All the same just one being..let me see..ok i ll use me for an example..Child,Mother,Grandmother all one being one person(three different titles but just one person) I pray this helped. This is one of the most confusing issues ever to try to explain to those searching for answers. This is how I believe but others don't believe this way.Lots of arguments have been made over this issue so all I can say I search the Bible you will find the answer.Good Luck and God Bless

Answer 3

First off before I answer it is important to remember that God is not limited to human form or thinking. This in and of itself is a good reason why people have an imperfect idea of this Trinity.

One of my favorite chapters in Genesis is called "The Three Visitors" (Genesis 18:1):

"2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:"

Both the Old and New Testaments reach that God is Unity as well as Trinity. The Trinity means that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are each equal persons and eternally One. The Persons of the Godhead are equal in nature, seperate in person, but submissive in the duties that They perform.

In the Old Testiment the Trinity is implied when the Godhead is seen talking among Itself: "Let Us make man in Our image"(Gen1:26), "Let Us go down"(Gen 11:7), and "Who will go for Us?" (Isaiah 6:8)

The three-fold Trinity is seen in (Isaiah 48:16) "I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, I was there, and now the Lord God and His Spirit have sent Me." It is a reference to Jesus Christ, the Messiah, who is speaking, and the "Spirit" of the Holy Spirit.

The New Testament teaches the Trinity when Jesus said "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father... He will testify of Me" (John 15:26).

"... baptising them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 28:19)

Jesus, the only begotten Son of the Father (John 3:16) also claimed to be God when He said "'I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,' says the Lord 'who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty'" (Rev. 1:8)

God Bless You.

Answer 4

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is a dificult one, so no wonder you have that doubt. I think your question could better be said in the reversed order: "How can the One be Triune?"

Some have tried to explain the Trinity as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit being three ways in which God made himself manifest, three ways He gave himself to Mankind. (This is called 'modalism').
(Note: not to be confused with reincarnations or descents of a god)

The Trinity is not a Trio of gods. Christians teach that within the one Being that is God, there eternally exist three coequal and coeternal Persons, namely, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Find a graph here:
http://shirley-kwan.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/most-holy-trinity.jpg


I hope this bit of information helps you in your research.

Answer 5

God is like this a Dad , A creator , A lover, Grandpa, gardener, A great leader, ect. Meaning each of us can be many things, does not change the person, or turn them into 3, just because they do more then one job,

Answer 6

That's a good question.

Perhaps some examples would help, even though these examples aren't perfect, they may give a little insight.

Time is composed of PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE, yet only one Time Line.

Matter (I'll use water - H2O) can appear as a solid (ice), liquid (water), and gas (steam), yet all are H2O.

Space consists of three dimensions. A box will have a length, a width, and height, yet only one box.

Finally, people are composed of a body, a soul, and a spirit. There is only ONE of me, but I am a body, soul AND a spirit.

I trust that these illustrations help understand that we have God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit, yet only one God.

Answer 7

You might want to look at the non-Trinitarian versions of Christianity.

I would suggest looking into these Christian churches: Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, Bible Students, American Unitarian Conference, Arian Catholic Church, Oneness Pentecostal, UU Christian Fellowship, etc. Swedenborgianism (look up Swedenborg on Wikipedia) was also non-Trinitarian. Perhaps one of these may speak to your condition. You can find all of them doing an online search.

While it is true that LDS Mormons do not believe in the Trinity, they have a doctrine of Godhead and eternal progression which is more polytheistic than monotheistic.

Answer 8

Holy Trinity meaning three persons in one God? I am one person, but I am a mother, daughter, and wife too! I play three different roles for different purposes.

Genesis 1 God says "Let US make man in OUR image, and in OUR likeness..."

Jesus tells us in John chapter 10 the He and the Father are one.

The Holy Spirit is what makes us part of the kingdom of God...John 3:5-8...and by this spirit we are baptized into the body of Christ (1 cor 12:12,13)

Answer 9

Everyone has tried and tried to explain this. Now, you asked about prayer. Although there are instances of people praying to Jesus in the Scripture, the most commonly accepted form of prayer is to pray

To the Father
In the name of Son
by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

Answer 10

The Trinity is an explanation for the clear statements in Scripture that God is one and that there are also clear, unique distinctions described as well (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) For example Dan 7:9-14 speaks of the Ancient of Days and the Son of Man as distinct from one another, yet both as God. And the Spirit in Ps. 139:7-10 is described as a distinct personal being and with the same attributes as God

Your question seems to be less toward the "if" of the Trinity and more toward "how does one understand it?" As a mathematician, I work regularly with the square root of -1 (i). I know it exists, I can explain where it occurs, and can show how its application is consistent with all the properties of mathematics -- even visually (i.e. the complex plane), yet I do not completely understand it. Likewise, in math Cantor's diagonalization proof shows -- basically -- that there are sets of numbers that are "more infinite" than another infinite set of numbers. Logically -- how can one infinite set contain more items that another infinite set? Yet, the proof is not that complex and is widely understood. The measure of validity is not "can I understand it". Much of modern math and science would fail the "It can't be true if I can't understand it" test. I would expect an infinite God to be beyond human understanding and beyond some of our simplistic theories of existence. [A good read to stretch one's thinking in this regard would be Edwin Abbott's _Flatland_]

Regarding prayer... Since there is one God we pray to that one God. However, Romans 8:26 (plus other passages) is interesting in appreciating how much God cares for us... We pray to God [the Father], We pray in confidence knowing that God [the Son] intercedes for us, and God (the Holy Spirit) even helps us and guides us in our prayers. We pray to one God who is at the same time revealed and acting as one and as three distinct beings in love for us.

Answer 11

The word "trinity" does not appear in the Bible, but is a modern day explanation. The Bible talks about God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, but it also says there is only one God. It describes unity. Three essences in one deity.