The Trinity
The Trinity essentially describes the view that God as a unity consists of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, who, like water, can change and adapt his nature depending on his mood.
This is supported by the fact that God, as an indescribable being, has every power to be anything he wants. It also suggests that God does not contradict himself and that he should therefore agree with all of his beings that he creates.
The latter argument in favor is immediately the first argument against: If God creates everything in such a way that it corresponds to his nature, then why did he create “evil”? Why then did he give people the “free will” to choose between “good” and “evil”?
God didn't create "evil"? Who was it then? Did it create itself? How could that be, when God alone can create life? Why would he give us humans free will if he didn't create "evil" so that we could choose it? “Evil” has power to create itself? What if all power comes from God?
God created “good” and “evil” and gave both the power to influence us humans. That's why he created us humans and endowed us with "free will" so that we can differentiate between "good" and "evil". However, He also told us to choose the "good" because the "good" will live, while the "evil" will be destroyed and everything that joins it will die!
What does all this say about God’s nature?
God is the Eternal who always was and always will be! He, the “Father,” sent us His “Son” so that we could live free from sin. He sent him to us as an example. His Son, showed humanity how we should live. If we imitate him, we live free from sin and thereby find life. The mission of the Messiah is explained so simply. He added nothing to the law. He took nothing away from the law. He did not die so that we could live in sin and still be free. He died to show us how to live without sin until death, no matter how hard it might get. In doing so, he defeated death. This is how we defeat death. For when we live free from sin, God the Father gives us eternal life through His grace, mercy, love and justice.
But we cannot live free from sin. We have sinned all our lives and will never be perfect!
That's right, we have all sinned and will do it again. But on the way with the Eternal, our God, he shows us what sins we commit and have committed. For these sins there is forgiveness through God's grace. Grace is the pardon that God has for us when we have committed a crime and then, realizing it, ask for forgiveness and repent. That doesn't mean we don't have to worry about consequences. God is a just judge. But he forgives. Sometimes we have to pay for our debts. When and how, the judge, God, alone decides. That's why we humans don't have to judge anyone, because God's judgments are much more precise and fair than we humans could ever dream of. We must also be merciful and forgiving. That is our task. We have to help. For example, if someone steals from us, they usually don't do it to harm us, but because they are poor. Sometimes spiritually poor and believes he has to be rich. You can help these people. Just as an example.
So we must try to be freed from guilt and sin every day. What does this have to do with the Trinity?
Quite simply: the Holy Spirit is not God. The Holy Spirit is God's word for us. Just as in a marriage, where the partners should be in "agreement" about the most important questions in life, so we are to be "in agreement" in spirit with God's Word and keep it. This makes us holy by abiding by God's Word and His commandments. This and nothing else is what we mean by the “holy spirit”.
So the "father is in agreement with the "son" because he taught and taught him everything. The son got his knowledge from the father. How did he acquire it? By studying the Torah. Through discussion with scholars of the Torah (Scripture -Scholars). By applying the words in everyday life. This made the "son" holy before his "father" and had a "holy spirit" in contrast to other people whose spirit (psyche) is corrupt or sick.
So we can all become “sons” and “daughters” and “diverse descendants” of the Eternal. We can all have a “holy spirit.” To do this, we just have to do in our lives what the prophet and Messiah “Yeshua” showed us in an exemplary manner. But that doesn't make us God. In doing so, we simply become part of His people. Descendants of the God of Abraham. So we are all united in the “Light of His Presence,” as it is written. United in the Holy Spirit. Because everyone who applies the same knowledge in spirit agrees on this.
What the Scripture says about it:
In which Apostle Paul fails to equate “son” and “father”. So he writes, "God has exalted Yeshua above all measure" and "But as soon as everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will also submit himself to him who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all." Paul still speaks of the “God and Father of our Messiah” and calls God the head of Yeshua in the same sense that Yeshua is the head of the man. It is also significant that Paul almost always reserves the title of God to the Father alone.
God is not divisible, He is One: (Rom 3:30), One God and Father of all: (Eph 4:6). For us there is only one God, the Father! (1 Cor 8:6).
The Holy Spirit is never called God. "Spirit" is often personified in the Bible (God's spirit, i.e. the Holy Spirit: Romans 8:9, 14; Yeshua's spirit: 1 Peter 1:11 and even Mary's spirit: Luke 1:47), this personification proves but not a personality of spirit.
Wisdom would also have to, according to Proverbs 1:20-33; 8:7-15, Matt. 11:19 and Luke 7:35 be one person. Just like sin (Romans 5:14, 17, 21; 6:12), death or love (according to 1 Cor. 13).
God works with the help of his spirit (i.e. the Holy Spirit) in the hearts of believers so that they can be changed by God (e.g. Eph. 3:16ff). Giving the Holy Spirit, i.e. the Spirit of God, the same status as the Father or the Son cannot be supported by the Bible. The Bible also clearly states that the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, is in the same connection with God as the spirit of a man is in connection with man: "For who among men knows what is in a man apart from the spirit of man who is in him? So no one has known the depths of God except the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:11)". If anyone grieves the Holy Spirit, the power of God, God the Father will be grieved and no one else. The psyche then becomes ill!
Yeshua says: "The Father is greater than I" (John 14:28). God the Father sent his Son to earth with a mission. The Son was sent, but He never sends His Father. This is irreversible and a clear sign of subordination. Who would have authority to send God? Several times Yeshua testified that the Father sent Him: (John 5:39, 6:29, 38, 44; 17:3, 8, 18, 21), and He stated that a slave is no greater than the one who sent him (John 13:16). Paul also writes that Yeshua was sent by God (Romans 8:3). Yeshua has one God and Father. He called to Him, prayed to Him: "My God, my God!" (Matt. 27:43). Paul and Peter wrote "Blessed is the God and Father of our leader, Yeshua HaMashiach!" (2 Cor. 1:3,16; Eph. 1:3; 1 Pet. 1:3). Also passages like: “The head of Yeshua is God” (1 Cor. 11:3). “[There is] one God and Father of all, who is over all and works through all and in all” (Eph. 4:6). What is also undisputed is the special harmony between the Father and His Son, who are of one spirit (John 10:30), that is, one, but not one, but distinguishable with a clear order of precedence. For us there is only one God, the Father (1 Cor. 8:6).
The absolute spirituality and transcendence of God is emphasized as follows: (Isa. 31:3, John 4:24, Col. 1:15). But the spirit is neither visible nor audible. This is also how we understand Yeshua's statements: "You have never heard the Father's voice nor seen His appearance" (John 5:37). “No one has ever seen God” (John 1:18). God is unchanging (Isa. 41:4b; Jas. 1:17): He has always been spirit, is spirit, and will always remain spirit. That alone rules out the idea that God became human.
In order for God to communicate with His creation, a mediator is often necessary. This mediator, symbolically called "the Word" in interpretation (John 1:1), is one with God the Father, but not one (John 10:30) "For God is one. In the same way one is also mediator between God and to man, the man Yeshua" (1 Tim. 2:5). This verse shows that God and Yeshua are two, but in perfect intimacy, because, as Yeshua says, "I am from Him, the same who sent me" (John 7:29). A mediator must be distinguished from the person who is to be mediated, i.e. who subordinates himself to the mediator.
Philippians 2 says that only the Son of God can change his form. From the divine form (i.e. spirit or angel) he became like man: "For this mind is also in you, which is also in Yeshua: who, when he was in the divine form, did not consider it a robbery from to be of a divine nature; but he emptied himself, took the form of a slave, and was fashioned in the likeness of men." (Phil. 2:6-7).
So the Father was first and Yeshua was created by him: (John 1:18, 8:42, Proverbs 8:22-24, 30), above all other creation that God then created through his Son (John. 1:1-3, 10, see also Col. 1:16; 1 Cor. 8:6; Heb. 1:2). When the term God is used in the plural, as with "Elohim" in Genesis 1:1, this common action is emphasized.
"The Lord created me in the beginning of his ways, before his works in the beginning of time; I was formed in the beginning of time, in the beginning, at the origin of the earth. When the primeval seas were not yet there, I was born, while the springs of water were still there didn't exist." (Proverbs 8:22ff) No one has ever seen God. The only one who is of God's Spirit and rests in the heart of the Father has brought news. (John 1:18) If God were your Father, you would love me; for I came and went out from God. (John 8:42). When the term God is used in the plural in the Old Testament, this emphasizes the joint action of God and Yeshua.
The dogma of the Trinity creates unnecessary ambiguity and misunderstanding that obscures the simple message of Almighty God and His only begotten Son who has been given the special mission to save the world (John 3:17). It is untrue that the God and Creator of the universe became a helpless human being and died on the cross. (If Yeshua were God, he couldn't have died, because God is immortal - according to 1 Tim. 6:16).
Worshiping Yeshua and the Holy Spirit as God is a negation of monotheism, which sees only the Father as God.
The doctrine of the Trinity can be seen as an ancient pagan concept that obscures the simple message of Almighty God and His only begotten Son who was given the special mission to save the world (John 3:17).
This lie distances many people from faith in the Eternal and the Messiah.
Divine triads (trinities, i.e. three different, related deities), consisting of father, mother and child (where the child is the savior), are known from most mythologies, such as Jupiter, Juno and Minerva in the Roman Empire or the triad in Hinduism (“Trimurti”) made up of the gods Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the preserver) and Shiva (the destroyer).
The New Age movement also sometimes uses the terms Trinity or Trinity, but mostly relates them to the Egyptian triad and uses the terms as a synonym for triad.
There is also the concept of modalism: a deity appears in different (often three) forms: Pre-Christian goddesses in Asia, Asia Minor and Europe (such as the Celtic Morrigan) were often depicted as three different people: as Virgin (“goddess of love”), as mother (“goddess of fertility”) and as crone (“goddess of death”) – each responsible for spring, summer and winter – all manifestations of the same goddess.
While the Trinity is seen in the major Christian traditions as an idea of God that only occurs in Christianity, critics point out similarities between the triad and the Trinity: There is usually talk of three equal-ranking deities (Trinity: “hypostases”) that are interconnected and as a whole again have a meaning (Trinity: “God”).
In Buddhism there is a structural correspondence with the Mahayana teaching of Trikaya (three-body teaching), but it is based on the philosophical foundations of Buddhism, is therefore thought of atheistically and is therefore not easily comparable with the term Trinity.
With the God of Abraham, the Eternal, there are no limits...
... but for us humans it does. However, always be aware that everyone has a choice. Everyone is responsible for their own decisions. Everyone has free will and is encouraged to make good use of it. Don't treat anyone worse than you would like to be treated. Never condemn a person because, in your opinion, he or she is violating God's commandments. Let God Himself make His judgment. If someone does something you don't agree with, try to move away from that person first. If that's not possible, kindly make it clear to that person what your opinion is, maybe you'll find a peaceful way where everyone can live in peace with their opinion. However, never feel compelled to endure attacks. There are helpful places, such as advice centers or the police, that you can turn to in confidence. Always remain connected to the eternal in faith! Sometimes He doesn't help Himself because He wants us to go to the places He has called to help us. He always has the best plan!
For better readability, the generic masculine is used on this website. Unless otherwise stated, the personal names used in these texts refer to all genders.