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How do you understand the concept of the Holy Trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit?
It is accepted in faith by most but not all christians, yet is an important part of christian doctrine.
Even atheists can read the texts in the bible and come to a conclusion on this, as to what the scriptures actually say or infer, regardless of their unbelief.
It is accepted in faith by most but not all christians, yet is an important part of christian doctrine.
Even atheists can read the texts in the bible and come to a conclusion on this, as to what the scriptures actually say or infer, regardless of their unbelief.
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I had it explained to me when i was a kid like this:- It is possible to be three people all at once i am a sister, a daughter and an auntie all at once!! The holy trinity a symbol of one huge devine being, meaning three different things to different people at different intervals. Does that make sence??? God the father as in god, god the son as in jesus christ and god the holy spirit as in the spirit of all good being everywhere!!
The significance of three like you mentioned is in many religions. I think it is literally just a metafor. The ancient celts used a symbol in their artwork called the triskele. This pattern is of three swirls stuck together to form one pattern. Many historians have been trying to work out just what this pattern means and repressents to the ancient celtic people!! This is just one example of three being a very powerful and significant number in a beleif system!! I find this kinda thing really fascinating!!
The significance of three like you mentioned is in many religions. I think it is literally just a metafor. The ancient celts used a symbol in their artwork called the triskele. This pattern is of three swirls stuck together to form one pattern. Many historians have been trying to work out just what this pattern means and repressents to the ancient celtic people!! This is just one example of three being a very powerful and significant number in a beleif system!! I find this kinda thing really fascinating!!
My own belief, probably imperfect, is that we are made in the image of God ..... but .... God is so completely, "other," than we are, that we fail to understand His majesty and power, which is manifested also in His very being.
There is only one God, but there are three persons of God, not three different people!
When God speaks, His Word, the Son, the second person of the Godhead, goes out and accomplishes that which the Father has spoken, by the power of the Holy Spirit. "Let there be light."
All three are totally and completely God.
They are a Tri-Unity, complete and perfect, able to give and receive love, for God is Love.
Just some of my thoughts.
There is only one God, but there are three persons of God, not three different people!
When God speaks, His Word, the Son, the second person of the Godhead, goes out and accomplishes that which the Father has spoken, by the power of the Holy Spirit. "Let there be light."
All three are totally and completely God.
They are a Tri-Unity, complete and perfect, able to give and receive love, for God is Love.
Just some of my thoughts.
Theland. If we are the image of God then it might lead people to think there is this man floating around in the spirit world. God is a spirit form so when we are made in the image surely this must not be taken literally but means we contain that same spirit or lifeforce that if developed properly could lead us all back to where we belong in spirit form after death?
China - As I am pretty low down the scale of original thought, I have to say that I try to learn from enlightened scholars, keeping what I feel comfortable with, and what appeals to my understanding of the scriptures.
It is a common view that I have, as evidenced by your conversation with the R.C. priest.
It is a common view that I have, as evidenced by your conversation with the R.C. priest.
taleisin238 - You are spot on.
Our relationship to god is a very personal relationship.
We can only have a relationship with a person, not a force, or a mysterious, ' something.'
God is a person, albeit a superhuman one, with the added attribute of being a Trinity, the Tri-Unity of perfection and love.
Our relationship to god is a very personal relationship.
We can only have a relationship with a person, not a force, or a mysterious, ' something.'
God is a person, albeit a superhuman one, with the added attribute of being a Trinity, the Tri-Unity of perfection and love.
It's odd, isn't it, if God is a spirit, that the Bible used the word 'tselem' in 1 Gen 27 when it talks about man being made in God's image.
Odd because 'tselem' means "shape, resemblance, figure, shadow." There is nothing abstract in it. This same word is used in Genesis 5:3:
"And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image [tselem], and named him Seth."
A cynic might think this word has been used because the early Jews conceived of a corporeal God, a notion since become incovenient.
It's good of Taliesin to admit that my view that the Bible is a collection of folk myths about a fictional deity is a correct one, by the way.
Odd because 'tselem' means "shape, resemblance, figure, shadow." There is nothing abstract in it. This same word is used in Genesis 5:3:
"And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image [tselem], and named him Seth."
A cynic might think this word has been used because the early Jews conceived of a corporeal God, a notion since become incovenient.
It's good of Taliesin to admit that my view that the Bible is a collection of folk myths about a fictional deity is a correct one, by the way.
I saw your thread come across the 'recent posts' section and thought I'd offer this brief story. I'm on the way out the door right now and unfortunately, haven't the time to write more.
I wish you well
Fr Bill
http://anglicans.blogspot.com/search?q=trinity
I wish you well
Fr Bill
http://anglicans.blogspot.com/search?q=trinity
