Salvation Is Jesus

Understanding The Trinity

God is incredibly unique, so it’s impossible for our created human minds to completely and clearly grasp all the uniqueness of the only existing being that has no beginning and no end. Understanding the Holy Trinity is a part of God that can be particularly difficult for us to grasp. The word “trinity” is not in the Bible, but it is clear that there are three separate persons that make up the one God. These three persons are the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

What has helped me understand the trinity the most, is to simply look at you and me. We are created in the image of God. We are dim reflections of who God is, and like God, we each have three separate parts of which we’re made. We have:

1. A soul (mind/consciousness). The part of us who is conscious and thinks and feels.
2. A spirit. Closely tied to the soul, the part of us that can commune with God, and to some extent, with other people. Our “spiritual side”. It’s hard to describe, yet every culture in history has recognized its existence.
3. A physical body that houses the spirit and soul and is the visible presentation of who we are. The part of us that performs actions and interacts with the world around us.

All three parts are separate, yet at the same time, they are one. Can you see how our three separate entities make up one person? Though it’s not a perfect comparison, we can see a similarity in the three entities that make up the one God. To me, our soul resembles the Father; our spirit resembles the Holy Spirit; and our body resembles The Son.

Here is a good explanation of the Trinity from christiananswers.net:

God is a Tri-unity, with each Person of the Godhead equally and fully and eternally God. Each is necessary, and each is distinct, and yet all are one. The three Persons appear in a logical, causal order. The Father is the unseen, omnipresent Source of all being, revealed in and by the Son, experienced in and by the Holy Spirit. The Son proceeds from the Father, and the Spirit from the Son. With reference to God’s creation, the Father is the Thought behind it, the Son is the Word calling it forth, and the Spirit is the Deed making it a reality.

We “see” God and His great salvation in the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, then “experience” their reality by faith, through the indwelling presence of His Holy Spirit

The Bible is full of descriptions of each of the three persons of the Trinity. Here are some qualities of each person as revealed to us from just from the book of John:

The Father

• The authority and leader of the Trinity - John 14:24
• Works his will through the Son - John 5:19-20

The Son

• The physical representation of God that humans are able to see - John 14:7-9
• The acting force (or hands) of God - John 1:3
• The way to the Father, the Truth, and the Life - John 14:6

The Holy Spirit

• Counselor (also translated “Helper”) - John 15:26
• Leads men’s heart to the Truth - John:16:12-15

Working together in perfect harmony, these three persons make up the one true God.