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cleo574 WRITERS’ MENTOR (500 + posts)
CCW GOLD MEMBER Posts : 542 Age : 77 Join date : 2011-08-18 Location : Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
| Subject: Bible Study Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:45 pm | |
| I've been trying to do a little Bible study and I don't always understand everything. I have a question that came to mind when reading If God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are all one and the same then how is Jesus going to sit at the right hand of God? Thought maybe someone with more experience could tell me how to understand the trinity a little better. |
| | | oneagleswings ADMIN II
CCW GOLD MEMBER CCW SUPPORTER 2X POETRY CONTEST WINNER Posts : 4323 Age : 64 Join date : 2011-08-30 Location : south carolina
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:06 am | |
| good question miss cleo, i hope this helps.
The Trinity Explained in Four Sentences: A Look at John 1:1-4 by John Shore on January 11, 2009 in Christian Spirituality
John 1: 1-4. (If you’re new to learning the Bible, what “John 1:1-4″ means is that we’re looking at The Book of John [sometimes also called "The Gospel According to John," or, most often, just "John"], chapter one, verses 1-4.)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
“Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
I think these first four sentences of John are expressing the reality of the Trinity. It’s saying that God comes in three modes: Absolute and unchanging (“God”), exuberantly creative (“Word”), and personally and specifically inside of each and every man (“the light of men”).
And there’s the ineffable mystery of the three-in-one God. There, in four (heartbreakingly elegant) sentences, is the basis for the entirety of Christianity.
Jesus, of course, is the Word, the active aspect of God; he is God’s unending potential manifested in real space and time. Jesus is the perfect means by which God’s absolute, undifferentiated power is physically, corporeally expressed.
“Word” perfectly captures that extraordinary dynamic. A thing doesn’t really have an identity, hasn’t ever been definitively differentiated from everything else in the world, until it has been named—until someone has attached a unique word to it that, from then on out, refers exclusively to that thing. Naming something marks the finality of the process by which something gains its own distinct, enduring presence; it’s how a thing transforms from unknown to known.
Put in the broadest possible terms, it’s how a thing moves from the world of undivided and absolute God, to the differentiated, relative, human world in which God became Jesus.
“Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”
And there it is: by the power of the active, creative force of God, which ultimately personified itself into the Jesus we worship today, all things that ever were or will be were created. Jesus is the Word through which God created us, and our world.
And as to, “In him was life was life, and that life was the light of men.”? That’s just an extremely perfect way of saying that, ultimately, what Jesus brought is the means by which his essence (“the light”) is meant to be fully imparted and awakened in the hearts and minds of all who believe that he was, in fact, exactly who he said he was. I think it’s pointing to the Holy Spirit.
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| | | cleo574 WRITERS’ MENTOR (500 + posts)
CCW GOLD MEMBER Posts : 542 Age : 77 Join date : 2011-08-18 Location : Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:13 am | |
| Thank you. It did help somewhat. I guess all will be revealed someday anyway. |
| | | Lora SITE ADMINISTRATOR
Posts : 5907 Age : 53 Join date : 2011-07-26 Location : Southern CA
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:06 pm | |
| I've heard the trinity expressed in many ways. Some say, it's like a marriage where the two become united and become one. Only in this case, the three are united and are one. I think it's much deeper than that though. They are so emotionally connected i.e. their love, devotion and communion with one another, are so united-in ways that we can't even imagine here on earth-that they are literally one. I can only imagine it in my inferior experiences with my husband, because we are very, very connected, but God is capable of taking that to a much higher level. These are only my thoughts on the matter. The Bible doesn't completely explain the matter to us, perhaps, because we are unable to grasp it while we are here on earth. Like you said, it will all be revealed to us someday. |
| | | worshipfreely WRITERS’ MENTOR (500 + posts)
CCW GOLD MEMBER POETRY CONTEST WINNER Posts : 832 Age : 51 Join date : 2011-08-29 Location : Hillsboro OR
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:54 pm | |
| The trinity or three in one as I understand them are just the aspects of God. God the I AM is the creator the designer the very foundation of existence, Jesus is the mediator for man to salvation with God, the Holy Spirit is the direct connection we have with God so we know HE is there and that we are pleasing or displeasing to HIM in our thoughts and actions. The reason Jesus is set next to the Father in the throne room is because even though they are one and the same, Jesus stands for us ( literally ) before the Father. He must be there to help us stand judgement. Of course I'm an adolescent christian so I hesitated to answer this...but I hope it helps. All glory to the Father. |
| | | oneagleswings ADMIN II
CCW GOLD MEMBER CCW SUPPORTER 2X POETRY CONTEST WINNER Posts : 4323 Age : 64 Join date : 2011-08-30 Location : south carolina
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:58 pm | |
| you know what kind of really sorta' helped me understand this a bit better? a book lora recommended to me entitled "the shack", it is an awesome example in an imaginative creative way, well expressed! Btw, Worship i believe you are right on point! |
| | | Lora SITE ADMINISTRATOR
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| Subject: Re: Bible Study Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:10 pm | |
| Oh, yes, if you haven't read "The Shack" I highly recommend it. It changed my thinking and understanding in a lot of profound ways. I think that freely is correct with respect to how God relates to us, and there are many other aspects of each entity within the godhead, too. For example, with respect to creation. I recall my pastor teaching us that God thought it, Jesus spoke it, and the Holy Spirit performed it. |
| | | cleo574 WRITERS’ MENTOR (500 + posts)
CCW GOLD MEMBER Posts : 542 Age : 77 Join date : 2011-08-18 Location : Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:35 pm | |
| You guys are awesome. You have given me more thoughts that I can ponder. Thanks for all you input. |
| | | worshipfreely WRITERS’ MENTOR (500 + posts)
CCW GOLD MEMBER POETRY CONTEST WINNER Posts : 832 Age : 51 Join date : 2011-08-29 Location : Hillsboro OR
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:20 pm | |
| I'm reading a book called 'The knowledge of the Holy' by A.W. Tozer and there is a quote that really backs what you said Lora.
"The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and the Son: not made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding." Athanasian Creed |
| | | cleo574 WRITERS’ MENTOR (500 + posts)
CCW GOLD MEMBER Posts : 542 Age : 77 Join date : 2011-08-18 Location : Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:11 pm | |
| Wow, that explains things a lot better. |
| | | Chynsea APPRENTICE (6-25 posts)
Posts : 6 Age : 60 Join date : 2012-09-10 Location : Yuma Arizona
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:49 pm | |
| The trinity is an issue that we all struggle to understand. The thought of God-the Father, God-the Son, and God-the Holy Spirit seems unfathomable. Years ago I began listening to a Christian comedian named Mike Warnke. He explained the trinity "is like a hot cherry pie, fresh from the oven. Let’s say we cut that pie into three equal slices; we would see the lines of demarcation in the crust, but the filling inside flows, knows no demarcation. Thus it is with the Trinity" (Warnke) You see the pie has three parts: the lower crust, the filling, and the upper crust. Without all three parts it is not Cherry pie, it's not complete. So is the God Head. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The God Head, The Holy Trinty, All three are individual yet all three combined are one. This is as close as I can get to understanding the trinity, I hope it helps. |
| | | cleo574 WRITERS’ MENTOR (500 + posts)
CCW GOLD MEMBER Posts : 542 Age : 77 Join date : 2011-08-18 Location : Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:03 am | |
| That helps a lot. Sometimes it takes a simple explanation to make a complicated one more clear. Appreciate your input. Thanks again. |
| | | vinedresser WORDSMITH (251-300 posts)
Posts : 259 Age : 68 Join date : 2011-10-10 Location : Arkansas
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:41 am | |
| Let's try this. God the Father is the concept artist, God the Son is the facilitator, and God the Holy Ghost is the working end of it, the power to help us. All in complete agreement of the program. It's us that get out of sync. |
| | | cleo574 WRITERS’ MENTOR (500 + posts)
CCW GOLD MEMBER Posts : 542 Age : 77 Join date : 2011-08-18 Location : Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
| Subject: Re: Bible Study Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:32 pm | |
| AMEN to us getting out of sync. Sometimes we need a lot of prayer to get back in sync. Thanks to all of you. It is now more clear than ever. |
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