The Trinity Doctrine , as written is a shaky Foundation for the Christian Faith.
What is the Trinity Doctrine? In a nutshell, there is one God, eternally existing in three persons:Father, Son (Jesus Christ) and Holy Spirit. The three persons of the Godhead are coequal and co-eternal.
The Trinitarians want to make the three separate persons distinct and having different roles in the trinity at the baptism of Jesus. They say the Father is not the Son, The Son is not the Father, and neither the Father or the Son are the Holy Ghost.
The Nicaea Creed read as follows:
I believe in one God: the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God: begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, through whom all things were made. . .
As we see they made a distinctions between the “three” as well.
The Athanasius (Trinitarian) Creed was finally established in (probably) the 5th century. It was not written by Athanasius but adopted his name. It stated in part: “We worship one God in Trinity . . . The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; and yet they are not three gods, but one God.”
Individual distinction once again.
The Trinity Doctrine is not taught anywhere in scripture, but trinities were common in Paganism andwere prominent in Egypt and Babylon. The beginnings of recognition of this doctrine started at the Council of Nicaea approximately 325 AD. Hundreds of years after the last book in the Bible was written.
The Trinity Doctrine says that God is made up of 3 persons, the Father, the Son and the HolySpirit. But the truth is that there is only one true God who has revealed himself to us in three ways.
Trinity Doctrine – How Can We Comprehend It? (This is how it was explained to me.)
The most difficult thing about the Trinity Doctrine is that there is no way to adequately explain it.The Trinity is a concept that is impossible for any human being to fully understand, let alone explain. God is infinitely higher than we are, therefore we should not expect to be able to fully understand Him. The Bible teaches that the Father is God (Exodus 3:14), that Jesus is God (John8:58), and that the Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4). The Bible also teaches that there is only one God (Deuteronomy 6:4; James 2:19). How these two statements of doctrine can both be true is incomprehensible to the human mind. However, this doesn’t mean that they’re both not true.
This is not my explaination, this is that of one who believes in this doctrine. And they are right, it cannot be explained, if you make the statement in the way it was made. But if we say God is The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit/Ghost. Then it is not so difficult to explain, is it?
The Church at Brook Hills, in Birmingham, Alabama, The congregation is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. sees it like this.
“The eternal God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.”
Southside Church of Christ in Mineral Wells Texas, sees it like this.
“There is only one God. He is the creator of all life and the supreme ruler of the universe. God is asingle person who shows himself to men as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God loves us more than we can imagine and passionately desires a relationship with us.”
I fully agree. With both. Southside, and Brook Hills.
God, is one God who revealed himself to man in three ways, In his work/creation, in his word/Jesus, and prophets, in his love, and power / holy spirit.
Seems simple to me, not hard to understand at all. God is the Creator, The Word, and the HolySpirit/Ghost.
When the Southern Baptist, and The Church of Christ agree on something, it is hard to “kick”against.
July 19, 2011
laymond
2 responses to “Another look”
laymond
September 9th, 2011 at 09:40
Thanks, Ken I am lucky to have your comment I hardly ever visit this site any more, I need to get back to doing what I can to inform. I surely do appreciate your comment, thanks again.
Ken Sublett
September 4th, 2011 at 13:30
That’s what Scripture says: I am a collector of things and I have collected passages which speak of the Father, Son and Spirit. ‘The Holy Spirit” is clearly the Spirit OF phrase and I do remember prepositional phrases. The spirit OF anger is never another ‘people.’ Here is my growing list of passages which are ignored when the tritheists (Jay Guin, Edward Fudge etal) use a lexicon and clearly never read the text.
http://www.piney.com/Father.Son.Holy.Spirit.Trinity.html
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly,
that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified,
both Lord and Christ.
As you proceed through the Bible that term seems to give way to the salutations being:
From God the Father (just one) in Heaven
And the Lord Jesus Christ.
Neo-trinitarians try to make “Jesus” one of the trinity but Jesus was the seed of Abraham and did not exist until he was born: Alexander Campbell places that as the beginning point.
From “Hohenwald in exile.”