Three.

One of the questions I’ve gotten from a lot of people who don’t know much about Christianity is the question of the Trinity. It’s a tough one to tackle, but I’m willing to give it a go. You’ve asked, and now I’ll do my level best to give you an answer.

God is one, and God is three. He is the three in one, the trinity. (didn’t mean to rhyme there)

But in terms of humanity, that doesn’t make any sense. He would have to have multiple personality disorder for that to even work, right? Wrong.

All three persons of God are indeed God, but they all play their different roles. Think of it like a married person who has a child and a job. They’re a husband or wife, a mother or father, and a business person—but they’re still the same person, defined within one being. That’s not quite how it works, but that’s probably the simplest terms I can put the Trinity within.

See, God has three distinct roles played by the three different persons of the Trinity.

God the Father is who I’ve spent the most time talking about in this series. God the Father is just that, He’s our Father. He’s the one who makes plans for us (Jeremiah 29:11) the one who blesses us (Deuteronomy 29) and the one with whom we make a covenant.

God the Son is Jesus Christ. He is the human person of the Almighty, who came down to Earth and gave up His life unto the wicked one so that we may have salvation. Jesus Christ the one from whom we get the name “Christian.” In Him we have salvation (wherein He lives within our hearts), we have healing, and we have an intercessor. He is ever in heaven praying on our behalf unto God the Father.

God the Spirit is the Holy Spirit, the one left here on Earth by Jesus when he returned to the heavens to be seated on the right hand of God the Father. The Holy Spirit is our counselor, our comfort. He is always here for us. When we are baptized in the Holy Spirit, we are able to better communicate with God the Father, through our own prayer language and through a deeper level of understanding of the Spirit.

Those are the three persons of God, and they are all contained within one: the Almighty God. Usually, Christians refer to the three by name. When we’re talking about Jesus, we’ll call him Jesus, and so on. But when we talk about God, singular God, we speak of all three. For all three are God, and all three are the basis of our faith.

[love]

{Rani Divine}