Communicating the Trinity

I think everyone has their ideas on the Trinity and how it works, so here's mine. I hope you enjoy it.

Matthew 28:19
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

There are many verses in the Bible that show this concept of the Trinity. This particular verse in Matthew is a direct quote from Jesus himself. The word Trinity itself, does not appear in the Bible. It is a word that man came up with to describe the idea of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, although being three separate “beings” are yet still one in the same; three in one.

So how can God be three totally separate things and yet claim that he is one God? How can Jesus, the Son, claim to be God the Father? How can all three claim individually to have raised Jesus from the grave?

John 10:38
But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father [is] in me, and I in him.

Jesus makes this claim to be God numerous times and makes the claim to be God’s son numerous times, even under oath to the high priest.

Luke 22: 70-71
70. They all asked, “Are you then the Son of God?” He replied, “You are right in saying I am.”
71. Then they said, “Why do we need any more testimony? We have heard it from his own lips.”

Ok, this is really getting confusing. Jesus himself claims to be God and also claims to be His Son. What about the Holy Spirit, will any verses help straighten out this conundrum?

John 14:26
But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you

John 15:26
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

Wow, this really makes it clear. Clear as mud. If the Holy Spirit is part of the Trinity, being God, then why does the Father send Him in Jesus name? Or is it like in the second verse: Jesus sends Him from the Father? How about these verses?

John1:33
John says, And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

Luke 4:1
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Now we have Jesus full of the Holy Spirit because He descended on him and remained on him. It is still confusing, isn’t it?

Remember, if God is in the business of building a relationship with us then His claim of being God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, and they being all one should be something that we can relate to.

God is a relational God. I'll pick up on the next blog with this last paragraph.