Lent Day 25

The Mystery of The Holy Trinity 3 Persons in 1 God? How can that be? Doesn’t that mean there 3 Gods?

We are taught that mysteries are things we cannot understand but should accept with faith. However, I see nothing wrong with trying to understand, so here is my take on it.

The First Person of The Trinity is God the Father, the Creator of all things visible and invisible. The earth is full of natural wonders. Life can exist only because our sun is a most stable star compared to other stars, and the distance of our planet earth is just right. If earth were further away from the sun, it would be too cold. If earth were closer to the sun, it would be too hot. The rotation of the earth is just the right speed to warm up and cool off every day. Earth’s atmosphere has exactly the right proportion of elements to provide the oxygen that enables life forms to breathe. Earth has the perfect combination of land and water, and only a small percentage of this water is drinkable. The odds are pretty small that there is another place with all the right combinations of life factors that our earth has. Take a close look at the intricate details within a leaf or a flower or even a single snowflake. Look through a microscope at the many forms of life too small to see with the naked eye, or cells which are the building blocks of all life forms. Think of how intricate, how complicated, how sophisticated our body systems are, such as sight, smell, taste, feeling, digestion, bones, nerves, and muscle structures all working together. All these things could not have happened by accident. God is Love, and He shows this Love by showing us the wonders of creation.

The Second Person of The Trinity is Love Personified - We are taught that we humans are made in the image and likeness of God. We have a free will. If we did not, we might as well be robots. Because of this free will, human imperfections were getting too far out of hand. Humans needed a Savior. About 2000 years ago God came to us in human form with the name Jesus, to teach us how God wanted us to live. If God is Love, then Jesus is Love personified. The fact that He sits at the right hand of the Father does not mean that Jesus is a separate entity from God, He is only showing Himself in human form to teach us, that is why Jesus is called the Word of God, or the right hand of God acting as Our Savior.

The Third Person of The Trinity - On Pentecost we were introduced to the Holy Spirit, the part of God that lives within our souls, showing Himself as our conscience, which sets us apart from and above other animals. Thus our bodies are called temples of the Holy Spirit, and should be given proper respect.

In summary, and again this is only my take on this, there is one God who shows Himself to us in three different ways. These 3 ways are not 3 separate entities, all are one and the same God. So why is one First or Second or Third? That is simply the order in which they were revealed to us, and in my view, all this does not seem like such a mystery to me.