Can someone please explain to me exactly how the Holy Trinity works? I find it hard to understand the three as one. Are all three referred to as persons, or beings? Are they all one God, or seperate parts of one God?
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Can someone please explain to me exactly how the Holy Trinity works? I find it hard to understand the three as one. Are all three referred to as persons, or beings? Are they all one God, or seperate parts of one God?
The Trinity is an amazing concept that is hard for most everyone to put their arms around.
Here is my small attempt:
One God.
As seen in 3 separate persons.
God walked the Earth. (Jesus)
God rules from Heaven (Father)
God dwells in my body (Holy Spirit)
God was there before time began (F,S,HS)
Someday we will understand it fully.
Until then,
we trust.
Be Blessed.
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An egg contains three parts - the shell, the yolk and the egg white. Now each one of these parts have very different characteristics - the shell is tough and full of calcium, and is designed to be a protective shell; the yolk is the food source for the developing chick; the white protects the yolk, and is an additional source of nutrients for the chick. However, despite the fact that they are all very different to each other, they are still very much still all part of an egg.
In the same way, the Trinity contains three separate parts, which are all inarguably part of the Trinity, but all different entities.
In the same way, the Trinity contains three separate parts, which are all inarguably part of the Trinity, but all different entities.
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Elijah2
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Well congratulations, you have got me to try and explain the Trinity.Can someone please explain to me exactly how the Holy Trinity works? I find it hard to understand the three as one. Are all three referred to as persons, or beings? Are they all one God, or seperate parts of one God?
Th Biblical donctrine of the Trinity is most distinctly expressed in our Lord Jesus Christ's words in the Great Commission, Matthew 28:18-20, "...baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit".
We first accept that our Son of God is equal with God.
Then we had to accept that the Son of God humbled himself to become a man. At the same time His humiliation came when HE had to accept HIS deity.
But the hardest of all is to establish in our minds that God is One, Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit is God.
We have to realise that our Father gave His Son, the Son gave Himself and through the Eternal Spirit HE offered Himself, and the Eternal Spirit came as our Counsellor when He left.
Now if you can understand that, then please explain it to me.
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Determinedheart
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This is how I see it, One time I was praying about this trying to understand it and this thought came ...
God is the whole body, Jesus is part of the heart and the Holy spirit is a part of the brain.
God is the whole body, Jesus is part of the heart and the Holy spirit is a part of the brain.
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WOW! Thanks everyone! So, if I understand this correctly, the Trinity is three parts of a whole, but serve different functions, just like an egg. God is the Father, Jesus is the Son, and the Holy Spirit is the advisor that dwells within us. We pray to the Father in Jesus' name. Does this all sound correct?
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heymikey80
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Eh, hm. It could be you're thinking of Him as a tripartite God, but there's a lot good about what you have said.WOW! Thanks everyone! So, if I understand this correctly, the Trinity is three parts of a whole, but serve different functions, just like an egg. God is the Father, Jesus is the Son, and the Holy Spirit is the advisor that dwells within us. We pray to the Father in Jesus' name. Does this all sound correct?
Each Person is also God to be recognized and worshipped as God. They don't have to "come together" to be God.
There's always going to be some aspect of this that you don't understand -- that's unfamiliar -- it's just that logically, your mind will realize that you shouldn't understand it.
Fwiw, I have trouble with this too. I look at it this way. God made people, right? He must be way beyond, way more capable than an individual person is, to make people. So God would be transpersonal -- somehow, His nature is just beyond personality.
When God moves in our personal and natural world, things happen in odd ways. One thing is, we find that God is three Persons. He's beyond personality, so it would stand to reason that He would be multiple Persons.
But God isn't divided, either. He is One God -- He's just not a simple god like we'd like to make Him, not a god that is "smooth and simple" for us to manipulate.
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Can someone please explain to me exactly how the Holy Trinity works? I find it hard to understand the three as one. Are all three referred to as persons, or beings? Are they all one God, or seperate parts of one God?
The shortest explanation I've ever heard: "One what and 3 whos."
The Trinitarian doctrine maintains that each of the persons of the Godhead are distinct, yet they are all each, by nature, God. For example, consider time. The past is distinct from the present, which is distinct from the future, which is distinct from the past. Each exists simultaneously. Yet, they are not three 'times,' but one. That is, they all share the same nature: time.
Some critiques of the Trinitarian doctrine say that the Trinity is really teaching three gods, not one. They will say that God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit would make three gods, since the Father plus the Son plus the Holy Spirit would make three. But this is not a logical necessity. Instead of adding, why not multiply? One times one times one equals one. Why must addition be the criteria by which the doctrine is judged? It need not be. Rather, the doctrine should stand or fall based upon biblical revelation, not human logic. Nevertheless, let me draw an analogy from creation itself to illustrate the doctrine of the Trinity.
To continue with the observation about the Trinitarian nature of creation, I would like to use 'time' to illustrate the Trinity. Is the "past" plus the "present" plus the "future" a total of three times? Not at all. It simply is a representation of three distinct aspects of the nature of time: past, present, and future. Likewise, the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit are not three separate beings or entities, but three distinct persons in the one nature of the Godhead. 1x1x1, not 1+1+1, equals our 1 God, the Trinity.
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Thanks AvgJoe! I really like that way of thinking about the Trinity, as well as the earlier mentioned egg analogy. You have all made it much easier to wrap my head around.
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LoveAlways
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This is hard for anyone to get. A nun explained it to my friend as this: think of God as a blob, and then take a piece of the blob off for Jesus and off for the Holy Spirit-- three separate uses, but still part of one blob. I don't know if that's the best explanation, and it does help me with Jesus more than the Holy Spirit.
One more try: think of water. Water can be a liquid, a solid (ice), and a gas. Three different forms but it's all still water.
One more try: think of water. Water can be a liquid, a solid (ice), and a gas. Three different forms but it's all still water.
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At a time when the trinity was more or less accepted as fact in theological circles, Newton wrote voluminously to support his belief that the theory was fraudulent. He based his theories completely on his study of the ancient texts (he was fluent in Hebrew, Greek and Latin) and was persuaded that they gave no support to trinitarian doctrines.
Born on Christmas day in 1642, the same year that the tragic figure Galileo died, Newton discovered the binomial theorem, the method of fluxions (calculus), the law of gravitation and the composite nature of lightall before the age of 30. The foundations of modern astronomy and physics are still largely based on theories Newton first presented more than 300 years ago.
A humble and reclusive figure, Isaac Newton was a Christian who studied the Bible daily and believed that God created everything, including the Bible. He believed that the Bible was true in every respect. Throughout his life he continually tested biblical truth against the physical truths of experimental and theoretical science and never observed a contradiction, according to his many biographers. Newton's writings reflected his belief that his scientific work was a method by which to reinforce belief in biblical truth.
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Born on Christmas day in 1642, the same year that the tragic figure Galileo died, Newton discovered the binomial theorem, the method of fluxions (calculus), the law of gravitation and the composite nature of lightall before the age of 30. The foundations of modern astronomy and physics are still largely based on theories Newton first presented more than 300 years ago.
A humble and reclusive figure, Isaac Newton was a Christian who studied the Bible daily and believed that God created everything, including the Bible. He believed that the Bible was true in every respect. Throughout his life he continually tested biblical truth against the physical truths of experimental and theoretical science and never observed a contradiction, according to his many biographers. Newton's writings reflected his belief that his scientific work was a method by which to reinforce belief in biblical truth.
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