What is the interpretation of John 1 vs 1…
In the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God
Digging deeper
for those who believe in the trinity as being God…I believe also…it makes sense but I can’t explain it.
How do you explain three deities being one God
my belief in God drives me to seek the truth and I am excited about the Word of God
The Trinity and Incarnation remain incomprehensible if you start with traditional assumptions about God.
The essentials, at least, become pretty easy to understand if you switch to a materialism (a la Tertullian 200 AD) - a physical, tangible God distinct from our universe but whose Presence is distributed, more or less sparsely, throughout the universe. He thus fills the whole universe.
For reasons unknown, He has deigned to organize that physical Presence into three parts - those three parts are always joined and thus form one Mind. Every particle of a material mind is volitional but particles can join together in ways that tend to form a united volition.
So there are three main parts - three regions of united volition - Father, Son, and Holy Breath (traditionally misnomered Holy "Spirit"). Three Persons.
- The Father is a human-shaped figure seated on a throne.
- Seated at His right hand is a human-shaped figure entitled the Son
- The Holy Breath exudes from the Son's nostrils (Exodus 15:8-10 Psalms 18:8 John 20:22), and from His mouth when he speaks (Psalms 33:6).
This speech - speaking of words - is also called the (divine) Word (Isaiah 55:11) which, as I already stated, proceeds as the "breath of His mouth" (2 Thessalonians 2:8).
Is the divine Word a "fourth" member? No. That term actually refers to the divine substance as a whole (thus it actually covers all three members even though it normally describes divine speech). For example, the divine Word is spread throughout the entire universe upholding all the stars according to Hebrews 1:3 (presumably by functioning as the real cause of gravity).
