The Trinity? Okay, I Don't Get It.

Gooooood morning everyone. I thought I would start out your day with a thinker this Sunday morning. Have you ever wondered what the Trinity really is? How can God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit all be one? If it doesn't make sense to you then well, guess what? It doesn't to anybody so your not alone! It's one of those unanswerable questions like the one I posted about previously on my Fishbowl Theory. In our minds, it is impossible to really know or understand the concept of the Trinity.

Here are the three parts pulled from the website Christianitytoday.com in an article where a user asks that same question. Here is the three parts broken down simply from that website's article:

• God the Father's role is to generate things. Things originate with him and flow from him. God the Father is equal with the Son and the Holy Spirit, but things start with him. The Father sent both the Son (John 3:16-17) and Holy Spirit (John 14:26) into the world.
• God the Son's role is to pay for our sins with his blood, which he did on the cross (Romans 5:9). The Son also acts as a lawyer for us before God, acting as a "mediator" between us and God (1 Timothy 2:5), and speaking "to the Father in our defense" (1 John 2:1).
• God the Holy Spirit has many roles. The Spirit helps us pray (Romans 8:26-27). He gives us new life (John 3:3-6). He is our Comforter, and he helps us understand God's word (John 14:26). He lifts up Christ (John 15:26). He convicts us of sin (John 16:7-11). He helps us to live holy lives (Romans 15:16). He gives us love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). He helps us share our faith (Acts 1:8). And he lives inside us (Romans 8:11).

Okay so now you know the roles, I'm sure that helps you get it right? Nope, still not? Okay well I only have one thing to say to you.....your still normal! Yayyy! We aren't supposed to get it, or really it should be said that our human brains just cannot comprehend it rather. When we think of something in our minds, in this world, we think okay how can one thing really be three things, but all three at the same time existing simultaneously? That's the point where we start to drool because we don't understand it. All I can leave you with is this which may or may not help. It started with God, then he created a human being, but also that human was God himself in human form. He came to be a visual representation of God in a human form for the world to see. Then, after the ultimate sacrifice on the cross, Jesus died and returned into God's presence in heaven. Now, there is the third part that works in our lives personally today, in our lives after the death of the human form of God that was Jesus and that is the Holy Spirit. How I know to describe it is a soul for our soul. A personal decision and also spiritual entity that lives within us, by choice, for us to live and carry out our lives.

God- The creator and originator
Jesus- God in human form for the world to know and see and record in a history book as a physical being

Holy Spirit- What exists today on this Earth, a spiritual entity directly intertwined with our lives.

I know that doesn't answer much really, but it sort of helps me to get it a little better. But overall, we cannot understand God and he means for it to be that way. We have to keep that awe and wonder about Him or else He would just be another "thing". So we as humans can't get it, maybe we will one day in heaven, but for now we just have to realize that's what God told us is true, and that's just how it is. Don't over complicate it, just embrace it.