Sufficient Self's Bible Study Group

[BarredBuff]

I have a question. Is the trinity symbolic or literal? I can see it both ways, how do you see it?

 

[Farmfresh]

How I see it is... Are body, mind and spirit symbolic or literal?

 

[Wannabefree]

I see it as literal.

 

[BarredBuff]

I see. So they are three different entities that you can see that make up God, right?

 

[Wannabefree]

I see. So they are three different entities that you can see that make up God, right?

Define see You can't see a spirit or a mind. Not necessarily three different entities either, just three different elements of the same single entity. We still worship one God. But HE is made up of Father/Son/Spirit. That's how i SEE it

 

[BarredBuff]

I see. So they are three different entities that you can see that make up God, right?

Define see You can't see a spirit or a mind. Not necessarily three different entities either, just three different elements of the same single entity. We still worship one God. But HE is made up of Father/Son/Spirit. That's how i SEE it

So really there is one throne that the Son sets on, right?

Trinity makes my head hurt.........

 

[Wannabefree]

I see. So they are three different entities that you can see that make up God, right?

Define see You can't see a spirit or a mind. Not necessarily three different entities either, just three different elements of the same single entity. We still worship one God. But HE is made up of Father/Son/Spirit. That's how i SEE it

So really there is one throne that the Son sets on, right?

Trinity makes my head hurt.........

The Son sits at the right hand of the Father. Who knows what that means exactly. God is Master of everything. Somehow He seperated Himself or mastered the seperations that is Himself. Body/Mind/Spirit so that each can function outside the other and yet still retain their "oneness." I have a few theories, but theoretical is all they are...just how my brain works I do believe it is how Christ overcame death and the grave though...and it has to do with covenants and very very hard to explain....so I'll leave ya hangin

 

[BarredBuff]

My head hurts......... *pops a tylenol*

 

[bambi]

I think the trinity is a hard subject to grasp if you think hard about it. I wonder if I have a hard time because in my minds eye I can visualize God and jesus but how do you visualize spirit? I know that I am more of a visual learner so if I can't visualize it is harder for me to understand.

 

[Denim Deb]

The Trinity is not something that we, as finite humans, can understand completely. The thing I like to use when explaining the Trinity is H2O, or dihydrogen monoxide. Normally, we just call this water, but it exists in 3 different states, as a solid-ice, as a liquid-water, and as a gas-water vapor. All 3 states have the same properties, freeze at 32 *F, boil at 212* F, etc. But, each is a distinct substance. Water is not ice or water vapor. It's the liquid stage of dihydrogen monoxide. Ice is not water or water vapor, but is the solid stage of dihydrogen monoxide. And, water vapor is not ice or water, but the gaseous stage of dihydrogen monoxide.

In the same way, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are all God, have all the same attributes, but are not the same person. God the Father is not the Son nor the Spirit, but the Father. Jesus is not the Father nor the Spirit, but is the Son. And the Spirit is not the Father nor the Son, but the Spirit. Each is separate, but part of a whole.

I hope that makes sense.