by Rick Badman

Created on: July 21, 2009   Last Updated: July 25, 2009

The Trinity is a fundamental belief in Christianity. It is also a major division between Christianity and other religions. That is because the concept seems illogical or makes God seem to be three separate gods instead of three characteristics of God. But according to the Hebrew language, when God said let us create man in our image in the book of Genesis, it was at least three people involved. When Jesus told people that he and his father were one, it didn't mean they were only in agreement. Otherwise the listeners wouldn't have picked up rocks and tried to stone him for blasphemy for making himself equal to God.

God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are three distinct people in one single person. I sometimes explain the Trinity like a radio program. The program could be compared to God the Father because it is not seen. Yet it is the reason for the existence of the radio station and transmission tower that can be seen like Jesus, when he was in the flesh, could be seen. The broadcast transmission could be compared to the Holy Spirit because only radios tuned to the station can receive the broadcast of the program the listeners can't see, just like the Holy Spirit indwells the believers. Only those who have accepted Christ as their Savior can receive the Holy Spirit. Those not "tuned" to the Holy Spirit can't be led by the Spirit to do what God wants them to do.

When Jesus prayed to the Father, he wasn't praying to himself. He was the physical manifestation of God on earth and had the power of God flowing through his physical body. But the body limited his abilities and he needed to receive sort of a spiritual recharge from his all-powerful self in Heaven.

When the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus like a dove when John the Baptist baptized him and a voice from Heaven said, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him," this was when the Trinity was evident as an example to embrace. If God had come down to earth in full-force, the world itself could have been destroyed. But as long as the Father is in Heaven, we are not destroyed.

Jesus told people that if they believed him they should also believe the Father who sent him. To become a believer, you must acknowledge that Jesus is God in the flesh. When he told the man with palsy that was lowered through the roof that his sins were forgiven, people complained that only God could forgive sins. He said it to show that he had the ability to forgive sins since he was God. Healing was just an ability like eating and sleeping.

Unitarians may not believe in the Trinity because it seems illogical. But the existence of Israel amidst millions of people who want it destroyed is illogical too. But God has to be in the form of three people in order to be God. If it were just God the Father, we would be destroyed. If Jesus and the Holy Spirit were not a part of God, they would be destroyed too. But since they are all a part of God, they are in harmony and exist as three personages of God.

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