Can someone explain the Holy Trinity?
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The Holy Trinity is the Father (God), the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. However, these three persons, although separate are also one. 1 John 2:23 says "Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also." This basically means that the Father and Son are equal. It also says this several other places in the Bible. The Great Commission also tells us to baptize believers in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. So, in conclusion, they are one and the same.
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The notion of the Trinity was (I believe) first coined by Tertullian in approx. 200 AD to refer to 3 of something, though vague references to God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit being one are present in the New Testament (Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14 and a few more).  It was not until LATER theological study that the idea became part of the Christian Orthodox dogma.  It was made official by the first Council of Nicea, hence the line in the Nicene Creed: "And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the giver of life, who proceeds from the father, whom together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who spoke through the Prophets."
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I did, and many other people with me. I learned about the Holy Trinity. The Father is love, mercy and compassion. The Son is the path to the Father. Nobody goes to the Father except through the Son. The Holy Spirit is wisdom.
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The trinity is not easy to understand for humans.  God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy spirit are three persons in one.  For us limited three dimensional creatures this would not be possible.  For an unlimited, infinite, pan dimensional being such as God, this is very possible.  We cannot fully conceive it but we can imagine it.  You must simply suspend your dimensional logic and imagine beyond what is possible.
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God is a being of tri-ality. It is called the The Trinity. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. These are all manifestations of God, therefor non is subordinate to the other. \n\nI once had difficulty understanding the Trinity and how one being could actualy be three, but still be one. This was when I was younger and confused. Over time I found my answers, which were not given to me by others. These are my own understanding of God as I grew durring this life of spiritual growth. \n\nI often use nature to describe spiritual concepts. For this I will use H20 which is water. Water actually is a reflection of the Trinity. For me anyway it helps describe this manifestation and how it is not only possible but simple science. \n\nWater has three very real forms, yet each form is still water, and none is greater than the other, as this is impossible when all three are exactly the same element. H20. There is the liquid water, there is the solid ice and there is the vaperous steam. Each play a vital role, and each is extreamly strong in its powers. Water is life sustaining, life giving, and it can also remove material over time. We are made of of 80% water. Out bodies are a prime example of the power of water. Without our water content we could not sustain our bodies. We have more water than blood in us. We have more water than skin on us. Some say our largest organ is our skin, but in reality our largest organ is our water. We could live a while, if kept in a sanitary enviroment, without our skin. We could not live for a moment if all our water was removed from us. We would shrivel and turn to bone and dust. We can live without food for days, a month, a month and a half, if there is water to put into our bodies. However, without water we die withiin a few very short days. So, you can see how powerful water is, and yet water is not God. \n\nIce can shave off mountain tops, cut out valleys, cool us on a hot day, ice provides the water we need in the valleys of the world. Ice is power and life sustaining. Steam is as powerful as water and ice. It cooks our food, makes us energy to heat and light our homes. It is sanitary and pure. Steam is powerful, as powerful as liquid H20 and ice. \n\nAll three are the exact same element. All three are as powerful as the other. How could they not be when all three are the exact same thing? Just in different manifestations. If they are exactly the same element, it is impossible for the basic structure to be any less in which ever form it takes. This is a reflection of the Trinity and speaks to me strongly of God and His power. We are His children, each and every one of us. None is less loved or beloved than another, regardless of what we do or do not do. We are created in His image, for His glory. We are here on a spiritual journey of discovery and growth. God is pleased when we love one another or at least try to tolerate each other and accomodate each others differences. \n\nNo, Jesus Christ is NOT subordinate to God the Father. It is impossible as Jesus Christ the Son IS God the Father, just in a different manifestation. You did not ask about the third part of the Trinity. God the Holy Spirit. Just as Jesus Christ is God, the Holy Spirit is as well. The Holy Spirit is also not subordinate to God the Father, as the Holy Spirit is God. They are all God. Just three seperate manifestations of Him, as water has three seperate but equal manifestaions.\n\nBless you on your spiritual journey through this life.
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The concept of the Trinity is often hard to grasp. In your question, you seem to show that you believe that the Trinity did not always exist. According to John 1, Jesus was with God, in God, and God from the begining, they were never seperate (except when Jesus took on the world's sins on the cross). in John 10, Jesus states that 'I and the father are one,' in John 10:30. The plainest biblical evidence for the Trinity falls in 1 John 5:7, where it says "7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. "\n\nEach Godhead (The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) are God, and the same one God, yet they are different. They each have their distinctive roles, yet are one unit.
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God, the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate beings with different roles, one in purpose. They make the Godhead or the Trinity. You can read this understand it clearly:\n\n... I would that ye should understand that God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people.\n \n2 And because he dwelleth in flesh he shall be called the Son of God, and having subjected the flesh to the will of the Father, being the Father and the Son—\n\n3 The Father, because he was conceived by the power of God; and the Son, because of the flesh; thus becoming the Father and Son—\n\n4 And they are one God, yea, the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth.\n\n5 And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God, suffereth temptation, and yieldeth not to the temptation, but suffereth himself to be mocked, and scourged, and cast out, and disowned by his people.\n\n6 And after all this, after working many mighty miracles among the children of men, he shall be led, yea, even as Isaiah said, as a sheep before the shearer is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.\n\n7 Yea, even so he shall be led, crucified, and slain, the flesh becoming subject even unto death, the will of the Son being swallowed up in the will of the Father.\n\n8 And thus God breaketh the bands of death, having gained the victory over death; giving the Son power to make intercession for the children of men—\n\n9 Having ascended into heaven, having the bowels of mercy; being filled with compassion towards the children of men; standing betwixt them and justice; having broken the bands of death, taken upon himself their iniquity and their transgressions, having redeemed them, and satisfied the demands of justice.\n\nThe Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.\n\n23 A man may receive the Holy Ghost, and it may descend upon him and not tarry with him.
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He certainly helped to define it.\nSt. Augustine brought together several strands of thinking:\n\n 1. there are “triadic” traces of the Trinity in the human soul: For example:  triad of self-knowledge (memory, understanding, will)\n \n triad of self-love (Lover, Beloved, Love)\n \n\n \n 2. the Spirit is the basis of the union between God and believers, and believer to believer. That is, the Spirit is the giver of community\n \n 3. “God is love” (1 John 4:8, 16)\n \n\n \n\nAnd proposed:\n\n the Holy Spirit is Love personified\n \n Just as we experience the Holy Spirit as the “bond of love” between believers, the “giver of community,” so too within the Godhead, the Holy Spirit is the Bond of Love between Father and Son  Hence that triadic trace of the Trinity in each of us -- the “triad of self-love”\n \n\n \n “Economic Trinity” = “Immanent Trinity” is being assumed\n \n\n \n\nIn this model, Love (the Holy Spirit) must of course proceed from the Father and Son, not merely from the Father. Scripture (John 20:22) provides further support: Jesus, appearing to his disciples after the resurrection, breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. \n\nThe Son is the Word of God, Spirit is the Breath of God, proceeding from the Father and the Son.
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Wow!! you sound sincere, so I think I am going to answer this, even though I prefer not to go into the religious section. I also studied the bible and continue to do so. The concept of the trinity is not scriptural, and its origin is based in false worship. If you would like further in depth explanations as to it origin, feel free to email me.
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the trinity matter is quite a mystery that's difficult to verbalize.  as long as human are trying grasp all concepts related to "God," there are going to be loopholes and errors, and the like.  \n\nI hope you're not simply looking for fault.\n\nRemember, you might have eloquence of an angel, but if you don't have love..................
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I always like to look at the trinity like a very good pie.  You can imagine any kind of pie you want.  I particularly like blueberry myself.  Anyway, Imagine that pie is split evenly into three pieces.  The entire pie represents God.  The pieces are part of God.  The Father is one piece (The good parent.) The Son is one piece (The devoted child) and the holy ghost (the speaker)  \n\nNow, that said, there are not biblical reference for the trinity.  Really it is two in one. (Jesus and God)  The spirit is just a way for God to communicate.  \n\nWho do I believe is in control?  I give it to God right now.  If Jesus was here like he was at the beginning of the century I would give it to him but he is taking a break right now until he comes back.  At least that is what I believe.
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in my book of prayers, some of the prayers are dedicated to the Father, others to the Son and others to the Holy Ghost.\nThe Son, Jesus Christ, and also the Holy Ghost descend from the Father. But the Holy Trinity makes a single God, not three.\nIt's like we have a mind, a body and a spirit. Three different elements, but a single person. We don't only cultivate our mind, but eat in order to feed our body, and need emotional contact in order to fulfil our spiritual needs...
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Scripture does not teach that God is a "trinity".  It is a doctrine of men, particularly Constantine and his band of merry bishops who concocted this idea by actually stealing it from other pagan religions.  \n\nDo you think for one moment that Abraham thought God was a "trinity"?  The Israelites knew that God the Father was one, and that He alone is God Almighty.\n\n"Let US make man in our image"...refers to the "Elohim" (sons of God/angelic beings)  who had already been created and were witnessing the Most High as He created this world and all that is in it and around it.  The "us" could have more specifically referred to the 24 Elders that surround His throne since the creation of the Elohim in heaven.\n\nI Corinthians 8:6 tells us there is one true God...the Father.  He is ONE (Deuteronomy 6:4). \n\nIt is very simple.  God is one...not two, or three, or three in one, or three substances.
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congratulations for using your mind\n\n-------\n\nfirst of all, trinity is not understandable. There is only one God. not three in one God. \nIf God is the Father and also the Son, then He would then be the Father of Himself because He is His own Son. This is illogical!\n\n\n-------\nfurthermore, look and this verse of bible. \n\nMark 13:32 \n"But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." \n\nIf Jesus and God are equal then they should be equal in knowledge. But as we can see, God is greater in knowledge than Jesus. The fact that one "personality" of God has knowledge not available to the other "two thirds" is a clear indication that they are distinct and separate beings, and not three faces of one being.\nAnd if, as some suggest, the Son was limited by his human nature from knowing, the question remains, Why did the Holy Spirit not know?\n\nSome say his human nature prevented him from knowing. Reasonably, though, if, as some believe, he was fully God, nothing could prevent him from knowing. How can human nature prevent God from knowing anything, particularly something of such import?  That further proves that Jesus was not all-powerful, because if he was all-powerful, then he would have power to know the final hour and to give himself this knowledge. \n\nFurthermore, if someone thinks that Jesus the man did not know, then he is missing a point that according to Christians, Jesus was 100% man and 100% God in one body. It means, Jesus possessed the same intellect of God and man.  If he had the same intellect then he should have same knowledge. But when we read the text it says only the father knows. This means that even the "DIVINE JESUS" doesn't know. This means that no one else knows including the divine Jesus. Therefore, Jesus lacks being All-knowing. and we know that God is All-knowing, hence, Jesus cannot be God. \n\n\n\n\n\nQuran (holy book of islam) says in chapter  4 verse 171 \n"Say not ‘Trinity’: desist: \nIt will be better for you for \nAllah is one God."\n[Al-Qur’an 4:171]\n\n \n\nQuran says in Surah Maidah chapter 5 verse 73\n"They do blaspheme who say\nGod is one of three\nIn a Trinity: for there is \nNo god except One God.\nIf they desist not\nFrom their word (of blasphemy),\nVerily a grievous penalty\nWill befall the blasphemers\nAmong them."\n\n=================\n\nHOPE THIS ANSWERS
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You are right. Trinity is a pagan belief and imagined by so called Christians. Here are some thoughts:\n\nJohn 1:1. The verse speaks of two Gods, but it does not imply equality. Too, the holy spirit is not mentioned in that verse. By the way the word "god" or "God" is a title and can be applied to Jesus. ( Psalm 82:1-6; etc)\n\nThe holy spirit is not a person. It is God's active force. See Acts 2:1-4. As such "it" can be given to persons. ( Example see John 20:22) It has no name, no face--unlike the father, and the son.\n\nMat 28:19. Baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy spirit. Does not imply the personality of the spirit, nor the equality of the 3. Since the holy spirit has no name. The word "name" in that verse refers to reputation. ( Psalm 22:1). Things--like electricity, roads, holy spirit--have reputations.\n\nJesus himself admitted that his father is greater than he is. (John 14:28) He admitted that he has limited powers. ( See Matthew 20:20-23; 24:36; John 5:30, etc) So, how can he be equal in power to God?\n\nOh well, you can not convince people who have made up their minds. Those who try to support the trinity are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. They simply can not.\n\nAs the saying goes: 'DO NOT GIVE ME THE FACTS, I HAVE ALREADY MADE UP MY MIND'.
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You make an interesting point. I have made an exclusive study of the trinity in the Christian scriptures and found it to have a solid premise, albeit that particular word isn't in the bible, and neither is the concept directly addressed. I wouldn't attempt to go into it here - it's too much - and that wasn't your question. I know  little about the Hindu religion,  so I'm not really qualified to comment.  What I find interesting about your point - the trinity notwithstanding - is that Mary, the mother of Jesus is worshiped in some Christian religions, as some  pray to various saints as well. It does indeed sound like at least some Christians have more than one god. I think that's rather odd. But...I haven't answered your question. It's a bit tricky. If you were a Christian we could discuss it.
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jesus christ, god and the holy spirit