Explain the trinity

[DBurrage]

Without writing pages of Bible verses, could somebody explain the trinity to me.

As a new Christian my understanding is that the trinity is kind of like the three phases of water: solid, liquid and gas, with all three being made of exactly the same thing.

What role does the Holy Spirit play?

 

[SherryD]

I understand the Trinity to be Body, Soul n Spirit....Jesus was God in the body, God is soul n the Holy Spirit is spirit....3 in 1. The Trinity. The Holy Spirit is our Comforter. He convicts us n shows us truth n witness to us when we read the Bible that Gods Word is true...He speaks for us in prayer when we can’t find the words. That’s my understanding.

 

[MattforJesus]

Jesus is God manifest in the flesh, and He is God and man.

God said there is no God beside Him, and there was no God formed before Him, and there shall be no God formed after Him.

The Bible says there is one God, the Father, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Which in the Old Testament God said He would reveal a new name to the Jews, and speak to them, which God spoke by the prophets in the Old Testament, but now speaks by His Son.

Which Jesus told Philip if you have seen me, you have seen the Father, and the words that I speak are not my own, but the Father that dwells in me, He does the works.

Which the Son was made according to the flesh of the seed of David, and when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law.

Jesus is God who has no beginning, and man who has a beginning, and Jesus can speak either as God, or the man Christ Jesus.

Son means to be begotten and have a father or else son has no meaning, so how can there be a Son of God that has no beginning, which the Son had a beginning in the womb of Mary, whose deity is God, and He is the Son of God.

Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and the Lord is that Spirit.

I believe there is one God, who is a Holy Spirit, and Father is a title for God, and the Son is the man Christ Jesus.

Not 3 persons in a trinity, but the 3 relationships God has with His saints designated by titles.

Father- parent of the saints, and Creator of all things, which all things are from Him, and He created all things by Jesus Christ which God created all things because of the plan to come in the future in flesh, and without that plan God would of not created anything He created.

Son- God's visible relationship to the saints, and there is only one throne in heaven, and one who sits on it, which is the throne of God and the Lamb, God in the glorified body of the man Christ Jesus, and God in visible activity.

Holy Spirit- God's invisible relationship to the saints, and God in invisible activity.

Let us make man in our image.

In the Old Testament Adam made in the image of God, and in the New Testament Adam was made in the figure of Him who is to come, Jesus Christ.

The image of God is the image of Christ.

God had the plan to come in the future in flesh, and created Adam in that image, an innocent nature in flesh.

The let us make man in our image is God, and the man Christ Jesus, a prophetic statement to the coming Son of God.

Baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Those are not names, but titles, and it is name singular.

Jesus said He came in the Father's name.

Hebrews 1 says the Son inherited the name from the Father.

The Holy Spirit comes in the name of Jesus.

Jesus is the name.

Which Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans were all baptized in the name of Jesus.

All that we do in word and deed we do all in the name of Jesus.

Jesus at the right hand of God.

God's right hand represents power, wisdom, and salvation.

There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Jesus said all power is given unto me in heaven and earth.

The Son must reign until His enemies are conquered, then the Son shall submit to God, the Father, that God may be all in all.

God exalted the man Christ Jesus to exercise the throne of power, be at His right hand, until the saints are with Him, and His enemies are conquered, then the Son cease exercising the throne of power, stop being at the right hand, that God may be all in all.

 

[Dave-L]

Without writing pages of Bible verses, could somebody explain the trinity to me.

As a new Christian my understanding is that the trinity is kind of like the three phases of water: solid, liquid and gas, with all three being made of exactly the same thing.

What role does the Holy Spirit play?

https://christianchat.com/threads/three-gods-or-one-explain-the-trinity.191756/post-4228102

 

[tantalon]

Without writing pages of Bible verses, could somebody explain the trinity to me.

As a new Christian my understanding is that the trinity is kind of like the three phases of water: solid, liquid and gas, with all three being made of exactly the same thing.

What role does the Holy Spirit play?

The Holy Spirit convicts of sins ,renews Himself in the believer, baptizes one into the body of Christ, distributes spiritual gifts, operates in visual manifestations of power. The Trinity is just one God, but God manifests Himself through His will, His words, and His Spirit, of which operate according to it's overall total agreement and essence.

 

[Whispered]

Without writing pages of Bible verses, could somebody explain the trinity to me.

As a new Christian my understanding is that the trinity is kind of like the three phases of water: solid, liquid and gas, with all three being made of exactly the same thing.

What role does the Holy Spirit play?

"The doctrine arrived as was prophesied by Christ and forewarned even as the Saint Apostle Paul noted in his letters(epistles) to the church of the Galatians. A separation from the original church and teachings into something else.
“Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name . . . and will deceive many” (The Book of Matthew chapter 24:4-5).
You may find this information useful to your studies. God Bless

....Most people assume that everything that bears the label “Christian” must have originated with Jesus Christ and His early followers. But this is definitely not the case. All we have to do is look at the words of Jesus Christ and His apostles to see that this is clearly not true.
The historical record shows that, just as Jesus and the New Testament writers foretold, various heretical ideas and teachers rose up from within the early Church and infiltrated it from without. Christ Himself warned His followers: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name . . . and will deceive many” (Matthew 24:4-5).
You can read many similar warnings in other passages (such as Matthew 24:11; Acts 20:29-30; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15; 2 Timothy 4:2-4; 2 Peter 2:1-2; 1 John 2:18-26; 1 John 4:1-3).
Barely two decades after Christ’s death and resurrection, the apostle Paul wrote that many believers were already “turning away . . . to a different gospel” (Galatians 1:6). He wrote that he was forced to contend with “false apostles, deceitful workers” who were fraudulently “transforming themselves into apostles of Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:13). One of the major problems he had to deal with was “false brethren” (2 Corinthians 11:26).
By late in the first century, as we see from 3 John 9-10, conditions had grown so dire that false ministers openly refused to receive representatives of the apostle John and were excommunicating true Christians from the Church!
Of this troubling period Edward Gibbon, the famed historian, wrote in his classic work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire of a “dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church” (1821, Vol. 2, p. 111).
It wasn’t long before true servants of God became a marginalized and scattered minority among those calling themselves Christian. A very different religion, now compromised with many concepts and practices rooted in ancient paganism (such mixing of religious beliefs being known as syncretism, common in the Roman Empire at the time), took hold and transformed the faith founded by Jesus Christ.
Historian Jesse Hurlbut says of this time of transformation: “We name the last generation of the first century, from 68 to 100 A.D., ‘The Age of Shadows,’ partly because the gloom of persecution was over the church, but more especially because of all the periods in the [church’s] history, it is the one about which we know the least. We have no longer the clear light of the Book of Acts to guide us; and no author of that age has filled the blank in the history . . .
“For fifty years after St. Paul’s life a curtain hangs over the church, through which we strive vainly to look; and when at last it rises, about 120 A.D. with the writings of the earliest church fathers, we find a church in many aspects very different from that in the days of St. Peter and St. Paul” (The Story of the Christian Church, 1970, p. 33).
This “very different” church would grow in power and influence, and within a few short centuries would come to dominate even the mighty Roman Empire!
By the second century, faithful members of the Church, Christ’s “little flock” (Luke 12:32), had largely been scattered by waves of deadly persecution. They held firmly to the biblical truth about Jesus Christ and God the Father, though they were persecuted by the Roman authorities as well as those who professed Christianity but were in reality teaching “another Jesus” and a “different gospel” (2 Corinthians 11:4; Galatians 1:6-9).
Different ideas about Christ’s divinity lead to conflict
This was the setting in which the doctrine of the Trinity emerged." [Continues]

 

[GaryA]

Perhaps this may help:

https://christianchat.com/bible-dis...of-god-word-father-son-and-the-trinity.72792/

 

[CS1]

Without writing pages of Bible verses, could somebody explain the trinity to me.

As a new Christian my understanding is that the trinity is kind of like the three phases of water: solid, liquid and gas, with all three being made of exactly the same thing.

What role does the Holy Spirit play?

Unexplainable, and incomprehensible and all fully God. Distinction of each and yet one. The Holy Spirit is God near without burning you up.

 

[chanchuinchoy]

My church priest used the analogy of water to explain trinity. Water is a substance. When it was frozen, it became ice and when heated it became steam and turns back to water again. Similarly, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are one 1).

God showed us His character during different era in the bible. During OT times, God the father, during NT times, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit thereafter. Another analogy is that God showed Himself to humankind at different era with different role. During the O times, God showed that He is righteous while duing NT tmes o present, God showed that He is loving and merciful and loving.