Trinity Question

[johnd]

For the sake of the lone stragglers who come to this occasionally visited board...

The Trinity Doctrine is gleaned from scripture. All of it. And it is not hard to understand. Once we do the math properly. My repeated example is the math we do when we consider another trinity (a family of three).

One family, three individuals who are the one family. Each is equally and 100% family. The only difference is when we refer to the family specifically we are comfortable with calling the family and it. With God we are not so comfortable calling God it so we call God he or him or his.

Each individual is a living intelligent person. I am not saying we should call them it. But like a family, the personhood is in the members therein not in the family unit itself. Part of what screws up people's ability to grasp the triune nature of the one God is the compound unity which can only mean that the personhood is of the individuals within the unity of the Godhead not the unity (Godhead) itself.

"I am family..." One family member speaking as a member or as the representative of the family itself...

[James Banta]

Originally Posted by johnd

For the sake of the lone stragglers who come to this occasionally visited board...

The Trinity Doctrine is gleaned from scripture. All of it. And it is not hard to understand. Once we do the math properly. My repeated example is the math we do when we consider another trinity (a family of three).

One family, three individuals who are the one family. Each is equally and 100% family. The only difference is when we refer to the family specifically we are comfortable with calling the family and it. With God we are not so comfortable calling God it so we call God he or him or his.

Each individual is a living intelligent person. I am not saying we should call them it. But like a family, the personhood is in the members therein not in the family unit itself. Part of what screws up people's ability to grasp the triune nature of the one God is the compound unity which can only mean that the personhood is of the individuals within the unity of the Godhead not the unity (Godhead) itself.

"I am family..." One family member speaking as a member or as the representative of the family itself...

The Trinity is much closer than a mere family.. God is not three being but one Being in three Persons.. God showed me this explanation and it serves me well.. I hope it help you as well..

The God created the Universe as space. Like all His other creations it reflects Him..
Space in the unity of three dimensions.. Height, Width, and Breadth.. Each one is infinite in it's nature. Being infinite Height contains all space.. Width , and Breadth also being infinite each contain every point that can exist.. Yet these three dimensions unit together into space..

Ok, God is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each is infinite and therefore are the fullness of God. The Father is God all the God there is or ever can be. The Son and the Holy Spirit are individually God. Each all the God there is or ever can be. But these three Persons are the one true God.. Can you see the truth in this? When I was a new Christian The Holy Spirit gave me this explanation and it has served my infinite mind well in it's attempt to understand the Infinite.. IHS jim

[johnd]

Um, yeah... if you search back far enough you will probably find where I used this same example to explain how three distinct omnipresent individuals can occupy the same space, universe, eternity at the same time or instant... the three spatial dimensions... which btw, if there is only one lacking, space cannot exist.

I do not impose that final point on the Godhead because of the absurdity of it. Nothing would exist without God.

1 Corinthians 15:10a (KJV)
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am...


By the existence of God... anything is what it is or anyone is what they are...
Interesting understanding of the I AM THAT I AM statement, eh?


My family metaphor was only to point out the compound unity of the unity (oneness) of God.


One thing I would ask of you, Banta, and I am sincerely asking because I don't know... is there a scripture that says God is one being?