How do we explain the Blessed Trinity? The name is ‘Trinity’ is very important in
explaining the Trinity. I suggest to you
that the Trinity is one eternal being of God and it is indivisible and
infinite. The one true being of God is
shared by three persons, the Father, Son and Spirit. The three persons are co-equal and
co-eternal. We must understand the
distinction between “being” and “person.”
God is surely not one person, but He is three distinct persons in one
essence, being or unity.
We must understand that the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is
the basis for the Christian faith. It
consists of redemption, predestination, creation. We must understand what God is like and how
He speaks about Himself. We must
understand how we ought to obey Him. We
must understand how to explain the ‘Trinity’ and a basic definition has been
given. God is one and yet three. How is that possible? We describe God as one ‘what’ and three
‘whose.’ I learned this at Liberty
University when I attended their
class on the Trinity through distance education. But we must ask if the Trinity is a
contradiction. It can only be a
contradiction if it is said there was three persons in one person, or that
there was one essence with three essences.
We, therefore, say that there is one God revealed in three persons. The Father is God, the Son is God and the
Spirit is God. However, there are not
three Gods but one God. This is because
there is one essence of God, or being of God, or unity of God that share the
three persons in the Triune Godhead. We
could wonder if Jesus prayed to the Father, how can He be God? We must understand that Jesus was fully man
because this is one of His natures. We
must make a distinction between the two natures of Christ but not separate them. Jesus prayed to God touching His humanity and
the economic distinction within the Godhead.
That is, the Father is the First Person, the Son is the Second Person
and the Spirit is the Third Person. Each
member of the Trinity is fully divine and self-existent. That is, the Trinity is from everlasting to
everlasting and it means He always existed as God. Moreover, we must understand that the Father is not the Son, and the Son is not the Father, nor the Father and Son the Spirit.
