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How can the trinity be one God?

Garion said:
So I Have to serve Jesus or Satan?
In your mind?
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Yes.


The Truth is: we all serve Satan, until we repent and turn to the Lord, to submit to Him and the laws and commandments of His kingdom.


Knowing this Truth, will set you free from deception.




JLB
 
JLB said:
Yes.


The Truth is: we all serve Satan, until we repent and turn to the Lord, to submit to Him and the laws and commandments of His kingdom.


Knowing this Truth, will set you free from deception.




JLB
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Wow! ! Dude! That is a terrible belief but hey I respect you for sharing it with me.

You have a great day! Ok
 
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God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit as all three coexist as Gods Spirit.

Jesus being the right arm of God. Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Jesus is the word of God. John 12: 49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

Jesus is word, light and life that is God come in the flesh. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Gods Holy Spirit come to indwell us and teach us. John 14: 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
 
Captain Falcon said:
I'm not understanding how the trinity can be one God. How can three divine persons with three divine minds and three divine wills be one God? The Bible says that the Messiah must fear God. Jesus demonstrated this when he said the Father is greater than he is. How does that fit in with trinitarian theology? Thank you.
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It doesn't.
 
Butch5 said:
Explain what? Jesus said the Father is greater than I. How does that fit with three co-equal persons?
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Simply saying "it doesn't" doesn't explain your reasons, only your conclusion. So the reader is left to guess as to the why. Better is, "It doesn't because......." Just explain your thinking.
 
When we think of God, its clearer to think of it like this.
God is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit.

Thus, Jesus is God the Son, and God the Son is One with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

When scripture says God is one, it's not in the numerical singular since, rather it denotes perfect harmony. This same word one used in Deut 6:4 is also used to describe the union between a husband and wife in Gen 2.
We see a rough picture of this in Adam and Eve, for Eve was in Adam. Adam says, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh.

There is no perfect analogy to describe the Trinity. But we do understand it as perfect harmony.

In John 14, Jesus said that before the creation of the world, God the Father was living His Son. In Genesis 1, we see God create by the utterance of words, and John calls Jesus the Word, while Colosians says Jesus created the world.

I think when we say Jesus is God, it sounds like Jesus is the Father and the Holy Spirit, and that's a bad position to be because it denies God the Father and God the Holy Spirit their rightful places.

This is why GOD aka Elohiem is plural.
 
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Butch5 said:
What does His location have to do with it?
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Your quotation was from Jesus while He was on earth. Your question was "what does location have to do with it? Please refer to Philippians 2. Vs.6 reads of Jesus: "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:" What does it mean to be "equal with God"? Vs. 7 reads: "But made himself of no reputation". What does it mean to be of "no reputation"? Vs. 7 continues: "and took upon him the form of a servant,". What does it mean "form of a servant"? Vs. 7 continues: "and was made in the likeness of men:" When Jesus left heaven to this earth, what does it mean when it says He took on the form of a servant" and the "likeness of men"? Vs.8 reads He "humbled himself" What does it mean that He "humbled himself"? Vs. 8 continues: "and became obedient". What does this mean?? All the above is what "location" has to do with it!
 
billybalke said:
Your quotation was from Jesus while He was on earth. Your question was "what does location have to do with it? Please refer to Philippians 2. Vs.6 reads of Jesus: "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:" What does it mean to be "equal with God"? Vs. 7 reads: "But made himself of no reputation". What does it mean to be of "no reputation"? Vs. 7 continues: "and took upon him the form of a servant,". What does it mean "form of a servant"? Vs. 7 continues: "and was made in the likeness of men:" When Jesus left heaven to this earth, what does it mean when it says He took on the form of a servant" and the "likeness of men"? Vs.8 reads He "humbled himself" What does it mean that He "humbled himself"? Vs. 8 continues: "and became obedient". What does this mean?? All the above is what "location" has to do with it!
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The KJV doesn't do a very good job with that passage. The NAS is more accurate to the Greek text.

NAS Philippians 2:6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, (Phil. 2:6 NAS)

However, even if we accept the passage from the KJV it doesn't prove your point. If Jesus was equal with God before emptying Himself of the form of God, it doesn't mean He was that way when He made the statement. The Trinity doctrine says there are three coequal person. That mean now. However, Jesus said the Father is greater than I after emptying Himself of the form of God.
 
Butch5 said:
The KJV doesn't do a very good job with that passage. The NAS is more accurate to the Greek text.

NAS Philippians 2:6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, (Phil. 2:6 NAS)

However, even if we accept the passage from the KJV it doesn't prove your point. If Jesus was equal with God before emptying Himself of the form of God, it doesn't mean He was that way when He made the statement. The Trinity doctrine says there are three coequal person. That mean now. However, Jesus said the Father is greater than I after emptying Himself of the form of God.
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Both translations prove my point. Of course Jesus wasn't in the "form of God" when He made that statement, He was in the form of man, a servant, humbled.
 
billybalke said:
Both translations prove my point. Of course Jesus wasn't in the "form of God" when He made that statement, He was in the form of man, a servant, humbled.
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The NAS says He did not think equality with God was something to be grasped.

OK, you agree that Jesus wasn't in the form of God when He made that statement. So how then are there three coequal persons?
 
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