This is Giving Me a Headache!


The concept of God is difficult for a lot of people.

They wonder - "Am I really supposed to believe that there is some supernatural being who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent?  

A being big enough to have created EVERYTHING, yet personal enough to care about each thing that was created? A supreme entity that COULD control everything - but instead One who provided humans with free will in hopes that we would CHOOSE to be in relationship with Him?"

It sounds incredible.  I sounds unbelievable...But then Christians further complicate the notion of God by saying, "Yes, all of that is true...AND this God is actually three distinct people in one.

That is a mind-blowing concept and quite frankly, one that sometimes gives me a headache.

You see you cannot explain God by saying he's like water, which can be a gas, a liquid or a solid, because such an explanation tends to limit God to "one" existence" at a time.  

We know that is not the case, and understanding the Gospel means understanding while Christianity is monotheistic - our GOD - is 3 in one

God the Father is the Creator of the Universe.  The one revered by Jesus and us as "Our Father".

God the Son is the Savior, Jesus Christ - God in human flesh who humbled himself to die on a cross in order to ransom us from sin and death.

God the Spirit is the non-physical presence of God - One who guides and directs those who let Him to know and better serve God (all facets)

And "how do we know this is true?" you might ask - take a look...

From the Old Testament - 

In Genesis we have God making the world, the Spirit hovering over the water, and God speaking to create.  In this, we see God the Father and the Spirit, and even (to a lesser degree) God the Son as The Word which God speaks.  

When God says "Let us make man in our own image." - Genesis 1:26 we get a sense that God is not singular.

Later in Genesis, God delivers messages to Hagar and Abraham via the "Angel of the Lord".  We come to understand this figure as God because he speaks as God in each of these situations, and yet he is also distinct from God the Father as He is sent by God to speak.

In Numbers 11 God (in heaven) pours out His Spirit on the leaders of Israel, yet at the same time, the pillar of cloud is still leading them through the wilderness.

In the New Testament -

Jesus is baptized in the Jordan "And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.  And a voice same from heaven, 'You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased." - Mark 1:10-11

Jesus seeks to please the Father - "My food is to do the will of him to sent me and to accomplish his work." - John 4:34.  

And in John 14:15-31 Jesus makes it perfectly clear that there are 3 parts (Father, Son and Spirit) that are ALL part of our one WONDERFUL God).







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