The Trinity

I never thought I’d have to explain the Trinity.

It never crossed my mind that one of the hardest concepts for non-believers to grasp would be the very thing I argue with a cult about.  This is poor preparation on my part, especially because I’m one of those people who has a hard time memorizing scripture (well, really anything for that matter.)  I definitely don’t have much to directly quote, i.e. a scriptural reference, but I remember the stuff that sticks out; the stuff that I absorb and ultimately apply to my life because it’s so profound that it forces me to fall on my face and thank our Father for all that He’s done.

These religious groups, with their twisted scripture passages and their memorized out-of-context verses, come at us at all angles, real wolves in sheep’s clothing (Matthew 7:15.)  They lure our brethren of little faith, or those who are new to the ideas taught by Christ and all of the Spirit-filled authors of the Holy Bible.  They wait on our innocent sheep to stray from the rest of the herd, and once they corner them they strike, altering scripture and throwing it at them left and right as if they were stoning the poor sheep.

I’m not one of those sheep.

If I stray from any herd, it’s because the herd I’m in is headed down the path of destruction, and they’ve ignored my warnings and followed a false shepherd.  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phillippians 4:13.)  That statement is a bold proclamation.  I can stay away from the broad path of destruction because of Christ who strengthens me.  I can discern the good and evil things in the world through Christ who strengthens me.  I can tell when things are gonna get rocky because I get this heartburn-like feeling, a feeling that seems like the Holy Spirit warning me of the trial ahead, and what the cost of falling for the lies will be. 

The wolves that came at me were discrediting the Trinity to some degree.  They claimed that God exists as Father, Son, and Spirit, and that He does this because He can do whatever He wants.  Fair enough.  Here’s the problem: according to these false shepherds He doesn’t exist as all three at the same time.

WHAT?!

If someone tells you God can do anything He wants, why couldn’t He be three in one?  Three entities, yet all one God.  That’s never questioned.  It’s so hard for new believers to understand, yet for the Christian it is simply agreed with because God says that’s how it is.  There should be no other argument.

For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water, and the blood- and these three are in agreement. (1 John 5:6-7)

That sums it up.  The King James text says that there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.  It is followed by the verse above.  Either way you look at it, God exists as three, yet one, all at the same time.  If the Trinity was not God in three persons all at the same time, then how come when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River the Holy Spirit descended as a dove to Him, and the clouds parted and God the Father said “This is my beloved Son.  I take delight in Him!” (Matthew 3:17) God was present as three distinct beings yet all Holy and God?

This ruins all cases of people taking the Word of God and saying the Trinity does not work the way the Bible clearly says it does.  I guess I’m just a weirdo because the hardest thing to humanly comprehend is the easiest thing for me to agree with.  I love studying the Trinity, and I feel like any Christian should rejoice in knowing that we have a Father in Heaven, a Savior who died in order for us to be forgiven by our Father, and a Spirit who fills us, allowing us to pour forth praises to our God and Savior.  God has done all the work that it takes for us to be saved, because He loves us.  Plain and simple.  If anyone questions this, they question the love of God and the Word of God.  Plain and simple.