Q&A: Isn’t the Trinity ONE GOD?

[This was first posted in 2012; yet another attempt to figure out a mathematical puzzle:  the mystery of a tripartite deity and how he or they function.  All for one and one for all, or should it be all in one and one in all, a triunity.  Christianity teaches that the Father is beyond the sinner’s reach except through the Son; and after the Son opens the Way to the Father, there is the bonus of the Holy Spirit who then takes residence in the believer.  The source of this reconfiguration of the One True God into a Trinitarian Godhead? The “New” Testament.  So what does the “Old” Testament teach?—Admin1]

 

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Q:  Isn’t the Trinity ONE GOD?

 

A:  Since the 3rd-4th centuries when the doctrine of the Trinity was debated in Church Councils, there has undoubtedly been confusion over how the ONENESS or UNITY of God—which is repeatedly emphasized throughout the Hebrew Scriptures by God Himself— could morph into a Biannity first, then on to a Trinity.  Hard as you try to reconfigure how 3-in-1=1, it just doesn’t add up, least of all mathematically!

 

one triangle

with 3 sides

or 3 angles;

 

 

 

 

 

a “Godhead”

of 3 Persons:

Father

Son

Holy Spirit

 

 

 

 

or H2O in solid,

liquid and

gaseous state,

3 manifestations

of the same God.

 

 

 

If you still don’t ‘get it’, then relegate it to the category that men will never understand called “mystery” and shut up already.  

 

 

• God-Son prays to God-Father,
• God-Father forsakes God-Son while dying on the cross;
• God-Spirit descends on God-Son at baptism;
• God-Father sends God-Spirit on various errands.

 

How can—

• God pray to God,
• God abandon God,
• God send God . . .

—-well, God can do anything, right?   And if that’s how He chooses to function, so be it….except this just doesn’t fit the God of the Hebrew Scriptures.