Trinity

Tywan Shanklin

Professor Gallagher

Religion 200

17 April 2012

The Trinity

The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost, how can there be three and yet still be a monotheistic religion? People who study or know of Christianity often ask this question, some Christians themselves often wonder this same thing. Is this just a metaphor in the bible, did man just add this on as time went by? In the next few paragraphs or so I will explain to you the meaning of the Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit and why it is not figurative language or man-made.

What is the significance of the Trinity and where is it mentioned?

Key Verses

* For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1 John 5:7

As the bible starts off in the book of Genesis, Moses writes the creation story and how life itself came together. In this we get a taste of how creative God is and how much knowledge he possesses. As the story unfolds more and we learn more about the creation of man, we see where man falls in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve disobeyed God so they were banished from the garden but before God banishes them in Genesis 3:23, God says something in verse twenty-two, “The man has now become like us knowing good and evil”. The verse continues on but who was God referring to when he said “us”? At the time it was just Him, and Adam and Eve. Surely he wasn’t talking about the serpent. No one really knows but the assumption is that he was talking about Himself, God the Son, and The Holy Spirit. Just to be clear on a few things the word “Trinity” or phrase “Holy Trinity” is never mentioned in the bible. The phrase is used to represent the union of three as they form one God. Man added this title on as Christianity began to spread to help us understand that there is only One God.

So why is there three in one?

So why is there so many references made by Jesus to God as His Father? Isn’t Jesus the same God in Heaven? These are...