How exactly does the holy trinity work?

[Glintor321]

I don't understand the christian's idea of the holy trinity.

The holy trinity says that the holy spirt, god, and jesus are all one and the same.

How does that work? All those times in the bible Jesus was praying to god. Was he just praying to himself?

Christians say Jesus is the son of god right? Well how can he be the son of himself?

Somebody explain. I use to be a christian, but never understood this(along with the many other things I don't understand about the christian faith).

[Zman]

One God. Three Persons. You can't understand it that well.

[rent-a-revolution]

It's curious to note that neither the word nor the concept of the trinity appear in the bible.

[Zman]

actually it does

[Pyroyoshi]

its kind of like the triforce, its one thing but each posses indivudial trates and powers and manifest in different forms in the world but it still remains one object

[MasterPython]

quote:Originally posted by Zman:

actually it does

Verses?

[Zman]

GENESIS 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: . . .

GENESIS 3:22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: . .

GENESIS 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, . . .

notice the us

MATTHEW 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

JOHN 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, {even} the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

The Holy Spirit can be blasphemed, only God can be blasphemed

there's tons of references

[kenwih]

quote:Originally posted by Pyroyoshi:

its kind of like the triforce, its one thing but each posses indivudial trates and powers and manifest in different forms in the world but it still remains one object

lol triforce

[trichocereus pachanoi]

Abrahim and I discussed this topic at length in the how to pray the Rosary thread. Have a look at that, it may help. God Bless.

[Kooper0]

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm

quote:

The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion -- the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another. Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God."

And there was me thinking 1+1+1 = 3