The Holy Trinity

The concept is a little confusing to me. I feel that not all Christians believe in it, or interpret it's meaning exactly the same.

The way I understand it, as explained to me is the father, son, and holy spirit are all the same and exist as one, not separate. In other words, Jesus is God.

Is that correct?

SheWolf said:

The concept is a little confusing to me. I feel that not all Christians believe in it, or interpret it's meaning exactly the same.

The way I understand it, as explained to me is the father, son, and holy spirit are all the same and exist as one, not separate. In other words, Jesus is God.

Is that correct?

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That is the belief in various forms of non orthodox christian believers. Separate the holy trinity and you have orthodox Christianity.

The debates whether they should be separate or not started almost at once after Christ. But it was clearly separated during 3rd century between Catholics and Orthodox Christians. The Orthodox Christians then established a new empire independent from Rome (though they called themselves Romans at first) name Byzantine.

SheWolf said:

The concept is a little confusing to me. I feel that not all Christians believe in it, or interpret it's meaning exactly the same.

The way I understand it, as explained to me is the father, son, and holy spirit are all the same and exist as one, not separate. In other words, Jesus is God.

Is that correct?

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Yes and no. They are all God. They are separate. And the same thing. It's one of those "we don't understand it" things. C.S. Lewis once said that trying to understand and describe the Trinity is like a stick figure trying to grasp and explain three dimensions to another stick figure.

I no longer think the "trinity" is other than more pagan influence. Don't get me wrong, Jesus is divine, my savior and the son of God. He is however not God in my opinion. In the Bible and I have gone round in circles with whatever his name was and the evidence for the trinity is just not there, at all.

Like I said then, it changes nothing. I still follow Christ as my lord and savior until he turns the mantle back over the the father in the end times, he is still the divine king.

It's funny, since I am non-denominational anyway, it really makes no difference. Whether you believe in the trinity or not will again not make any difference. Jesus is still the goto guy so to speak, lol.

Tertullian(c.160-c.225 A.D.) is the one who is believed to have been the oldest known person to use the term Trinity, divising the trinitarian formula while he was a Montanist. A heretical branch of Christianity. He later branched off again forming his own sect. It is rather interesting that the Church kept hold of this formulation while dismissing most of his other work as heresy.

Due to the Roman penchant for making Man-God's however, I can see how it was easily incorporated into the orthodoxy.