Along the same lines, the Trinity is sometimes alleged to be a contradictory concept: “How can God be both one and three?” But upon inspection we can see that there is no contradiction because the relationship differs. The Bible teaches that God is one in one sense, and three in a different sense. Specifically, there is one God (Isaiah 45:5–6, 18, 22), and yet there are three persons who are God: the Father (Galatians 1:1), the Son (John 20:31), and the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3–4). It may seem counterintuitive that God is one in nature and three in persons, but there is no contradiction here. The Trinity may be a psychological problem for some people, but it is not a logical problem.
I was recently asked the question between God and Jesus. The response was more about the Trinity as an explanation. I thought about different things that become one. The bible says in marriage, a man and woman become 1 flesh. We look and we see two people after marriage but in the spiritual realm, they are united and become one. A spiritual connection is made that holds them together. More simplistic, if you take sugar and water and put the two ingredients together, they become 1 solution. Once the sugar dissolves, you can't tell the difference between the sugar and water. They have become one, yet distinctly different. I submit that the Trinity is much like this example. Each with distinct characteristics, function, and location, yet one.
See the chart that shows the Title, Function, Status, Location of Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
The name we most often use to explain the trinity is "person". The idea using the word person needs to be defined in order to avoid using human characteristics or limitations that would prohibit God to be explained in His wholeness. There needs to be some sort of analogical significance and how much should it be applied to God.
1 Timothy 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind.
Psalms 50:6 Then let the heavens proclaim his justice, for God himself will be the judge.
God the Father is knowable, close, and wants to be found, wants to be sought after, wants us to experience Him; He has made a way for a personal relationship.
Psalms 10:4, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Job 23:3, Matthew 11:28, Genesis 3:9, Psalms 9:10, Hebrews 11:6
Jesus
John 10:28-30 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand, My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.
1 John 4:9 By this the love of God was revealed in us, that God has sent His only Son into the world so that we may live through Him.
Hebrews 12:2 looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
John 10:14-15 I am the good shepherd, and I know My own, and My own know Me, just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
John 14:6 Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.
Holy Spirit
Luke 3:22 and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well pleased.”
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God,
Acts 1:8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and as far as the remotest part of the earth.
John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you
Romans 8:26 Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words
Luke 24:49 And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high
Holy Spirit Characteristics
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
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