John14:7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.
Is the Divine Trinity real, and if so, how can we understand it when the bible doesn’t plainly explain it.
Even the book of Isaiah hints at the complexity of the Trinity.
57:15 thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity
44:6 Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel,
And his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
‘I am the First and I am the Last;
Besides Me there is no God.
9:6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
The trinity, like anything else that requires explanation about God and Jesus, can only be explained using scripture.
However, the trinity, or rather the word trinity is never used in scripture.
It is only represented in the Old Testament and New Testament by the three divine personalities of God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit.
It is never plainly referenced or explained in the bible because it is meant to be a personal revelation to an individual, but understanding it is not necessary for one’s salvation or to live a Godly life.
There are many contradictions or paradoxes in the scripture that make understanding the 3 as being one and the same God yet individual but equal very difficult. Some people in their attempt to explain or defend it end up only causing arguements and division.
This shouldn’t be how we discuss God because if we can not discuss something with an open mind and an open heart, then we are not spiritually mature enough to discuss it.
Division amongst ourselves is what the enemy desires the most, so arguing will only ever be giving him the victory.
The term, Trinity or the Triune God who is three but one can only fully be understood by combining the three separate images or aspects of the Father, Son dynamic of physical generations with the past, present, and future representations of God alongside with the body, soul, and spirit images that we are created in.
If only one of these is used, the others cause a contradiction, but if all three are combined, then the true meaning of the trinity takes shape.
So let’s break them down individually so that we can then combine them together properly.
The first being the Father, Son, and Spirit that follows the same timeline of generations as we do in that the Father came first, the son was born from the father but is a representation of the father in every way.
In Isaiah 43:10-13 God spoke to the nation of Israel and declared to them Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me.
And besides Me there is no savior. there was no foreign god among you;
I have declared and saved,
I have proclaimed, Therefore you are My witnesses,” Says the Lord, “that I am God.
13 Indeed before the day was, I am He; And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand;
I work, and who will reverse it?”
In John 8:42 Jesus said
I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me
Matthew 17:5 suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!”
In John 15:26 Jesus spoke of the spirit
“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
And again in John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.
There are 307 verses in the bible where the words God and Son are in the same verse.
This father son relationship by itself creates a paradox because how can Jesus be God and the son of God at the same time.
Did Jesus pray to himself ?
Yet Jesus himself said in
Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
This is where Time becomes a factor. The Father and Son existed from the
very beginning, but the mortal body of the son would not be born until later in time.
In the beginning, before God created the heavens and the earth, there was no such thing as time,
Time was created for us.
God is spirit in a place that does not exist or function in time, but he created us and our world to be a part of time.
God exists and has always existed in an eternal state. We will never be able to understand this because understanding it would require being on the same intelligence level as God, which we will never be.
But thanks to the many Sci fi movies we have watched, we can imagine back to the future type scenarios involving time.
Now imagine if I had a time machine and brought both myself from the past as well as myself from the future together so that all three of us were standing in the same place at the same time.
Would they still be me? Of course they would because they are me only separated by time, but now we are all three in the present time experiencing it together.
In this scenario of the past, present, and future, God the father would represent the beginning of time and the past because he is eternal.
Jesus would represent God among us in our present time.
The Holy Spirit would represent God from the future or the end of time.
all three have existed from the beginning, just as God has always existed, all three are one and the same God just divided by the time that we are experiencing which makes them individual yet the same.
Rev 1:8 I Am the Alpha and Omega the beggining and the End says the LORD, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
John 16:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
Some might find all of this to confusing or even offensive, but I would just like to restate that understanding the trinity is not a required part of faith and the truth is we will never fully understand the complexity of the trinity because we do not even understand the nature of time itself or how it works, we can only observe and speculate based on what we can see and understand.
Part of trying to understand this requires us to ask the question of why would the trinity have anything to do with time in the first place?
God is holy and pure and man who was destined to sin can not be in his presence and see his face or he would die
In Exodus 33:20 God spoke to Moses
He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.”
John 6:46
Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.
Yet even from the beggining before time began God purposed and shaped his plan to redeem man from sin by being among us in the flesh and even dying a mortal death for us, naked on a cross of shame and through this sacrifice and example of love he transformed that cross of sin and shame into the cross of Glory and Grace, an everlasting symbol and sign of the unfathomable love of God.
Aftwards he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell men and to draw all men to himself through his Son Jesus.
But if this was to take place, if God himself was to truly be among us, and his holy spirit indwell within us, how could we not be destroyed in the process? How could God die as a man on a cross in order to redeem us of our sins and save us from an eternal death?
I believe that this is why time was created so that there would be a separation between sinful man and the glory of God,
So that man who fell from perfection and the presence of God could be redeemed and return back to him through a process of time.
In this separation of time, we are able to behold the reflection of the Almighty God and not be destroyed because he never left his eternal state.
In this way, the saying of Jesus is true in
John 5:37
And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.
And in John 1:18
No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Next would be the body, soul, spirit trinity.
Remember, we are created in God’s image
Genesis 1:26
God said let “US” make man in “OUR” image
This body, soul, and spirit relationship is slightly misunderstood, so let’s break down each individually so we can better understand how they relate to the trinity.
If we are created in his image and we have a body, a soul, and a spirit, then it also means that God must have similar attributes of himself.
So what is the body soul spirit?
The body is the mortal shell that you inhabit
It was originally meant to last forever as a way for our soul and spirit to be able to experience the physical realm and the spiritual all at the same time
But it became corrupted with sin by acquiring the knowledge of the choice to do evil when we ate the fruit that God told us not to.
Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
The soul is the part of you that God created for you to be individual to you.
Like a fingerprint, your soul is a unique vessel that contains your personality, your desires, your memory, and your free will to be yourself.
Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul
Isaiah 26:8 The desire of our soul is for Your name
Isaiah 42:1 “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,My Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
The spirit is the life-force given to you by God. It could be compared to breath or wind
But realy, it is something we can not truly comprehend.
John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but can not tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 6:3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh
The spirit was given as a gift to all life from God but it is separate from and should not be confused with the Spirit of God because scripture refers to God putting his spirit on someone who already has a spirit.
To understand how the body soul and spirit is represented in the trinity, we also have to separate them individually.
The Father is the Body Soul and Spirit
We would be similar in comparison in that we have all three as well, yet all three of these parts of us are one and inseparable.
Unlike God, we can not exist or function as just a body or just a soul or just spirit.
Individually, the Son is the Body in the form of the Spirit of God becoming a physical being in the flesh.
When Jesus came, his body was no different than our body
It had to be tried, tested, and submit to the will of the spirit and soul because it was created as a vessel for the other two. It was never meant to be in charge.
However, we as humans allow our bodies to take control, and we become slaves to sin because of the desires of our flesh.
It is the body that has become corrupted by sin, not the spirit and the soul. However, if we allow the body to take control long enough, it can and will corrupt the spirit and soul as well.
Jesus, despite being tempted with all of the same things that we are tempted with, overcame the desires of the flesh because Individualy he represented the body and heart of God.
He was destined to come and be among us as a man in a body, but because of his love for us he overcame the desires of the flesh and then sacrificed his body so that we could be redeemed from sin. It is difficult to explain the significance and difficulty of him doing this, but if you can imagine yourself being in a situation that involved you giving up your life and your body to save someone else but knowing that you would die for an eternity, his choice was no less difficult. Yet because of his love for us and unselfish nature, he willingly walked to his death in order to save us from a death that we could not be saved from by ourselves. We are only human and have no power to overcome death. We could only die in our sins an eternal death, he however is God and has the power to give life to himself even while dying an eternal death for us.
John 10:17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. 18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
The Spirit represents the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the spirit of God. It is the force that keeps everything moving and coming back to God. It is the still small voice inside of us all that calls us to find him and to return to him. Without his spirit, there would be no Love, no Light, and no Life.
Now that we have defined all three attributes of the trinity
Father Son generations
Past present future
Body soul spirit
The trinity should now make a little more sense, even if you don’t agree with it being scriptural or factual.
For those who it is revealed to and want to better understand it they only have to look to the scriptures like these to form and understand the complete picture that he was trying to show us with his words, because every word is written to reveal to us his son.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him, all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
God became the word the light and the man in order to create us, illuminate us, and then redeem us. But the fascinating thing that is so hard for us to understand is that he did all of this right at the very beginning before anything was even created.
In the beginning, God created the end. because he knew how we would fall and what he would have to do in order to get us back to him.
He became his own son in the form of the very same flesh that he created us in and then died for us even though he seen and knew you and all of the things you would do wrong.
You may feel unworthy and unloved by God, but he saw you, loved you, and died for you even before time began.
This means that no matter how bad things seem, we must remind ourselves and others that he has already won this fight and our eternity with him, because he is the only one with the power over time.
The only paradox left to address is this
Jesus never claimed to be God or told anyone to worship him as God, yet he said “I and my father are one, anyone who has seen me has seen the father.
The reason that he did not desire to be acknowledged as God is simply because he was in a mortal body that represented the son of God but was destined to die to pay the price of eternal death for us and in our place, and as he said before his death “I am not of this world and this is not my kingdom“.
He was in a world that had been corrupted with sin and was ruled by satan until Jesus overcame him by denying the desires and fears of the flesh even to death.
John 8:23
And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
John 14:30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.
Even if he had been born in a world and body that had not fallen to sin and the ruler of it, he still would not have spoken of himself as above the father because he represented the son in a body that is supposed to be in submission to the will of the spirit and soul just as we are supposed to be.
the simple truth is this, that one day, the devil himself will also come as a man proclaiming himself to be God. This would be confusing and contradictory if Jesus had said I am God in a body, worship me, but don’t listen to the next man that claims he is God in a body.
John 5:43
I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
1 John 4:3
and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
The Truth is hidden in the name of the LORD YHWH In the old testament.
Which means several things all at the same TIME.
I Am the one being
I Am self existent or I have life in myself
I exist now and have always existed
I Am the first and the last, the Aleph and the Tav.
Y. H. W. H. =Translates into
Yod. Hey. Waw. Hey = which means
Hand Behold Nail Behold
He is the hand that built the house
He is the nails that hold it together
He is the man who sacrificed his body and his life by being nailed to a tree so that through him we could be reunited with him once more.
The Tree To The Cross 