How to Understand the Trinity?

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As a mature student I did a BA(Hons) in RE (Religious Education), which was really “how human beings perceive God”. At the end, I was as confused as at the start - decided, no point in going on for Masters or Doctorate. Realised that I would NEVER know and had to fall back on faith: that’s not a cop-out, I wait, in faith and hope, for a vision, an explanation of all my awkward questions from the Lord. He keeps saying, “when you’re ready, Ian”.
I once had a vision, whilst in a cathedral, of an oil dipstick starting at my pew and going up, through the cathedral roof, up and up and up till it disappeared somewhere beyond space. At the very bottom was a tiny stain and I felt the Lord saying “that dirty stain is your life on earth, Ian. The rest is your eternal life in Heaven. Why are you striving to KNOW, to BE someone in your tiny life-term on earth? You have eternity to learn!”
Yet I KNOW He wants us to continue to search, to ask awkward questions, to learn and expand our knowledge of Him and the magnificent world He created. BUT, I guess He doesn’t want us to STRIVE and create a personal obsession which becomes greater than, and obstructs, Him.
When I get to the end of ME I get to the beginning of God.
 
Having writ what I writ, the moving finger moves on to flick another rock into the pool of misunderstanding or knowledge, whichever prevails.
When God said “Let Us create man in our image” dare I think He meant me, or you, or anyone else? Or indeed a Trinity of persons? Strongs (and others) suggest that for ‘man’ read ‘mankind’. I like that version and prefer to believe that the “image” of God is a complex of every person, every character, every personality that EVER existed, exists now and will exist for ever Amen. Even that will not come close to the mighty magnitude of our God. And to think He compresses Himself so that we can conceptualise Him as Father. The mind boggleth!
 
whisper - you are making too much of too little. Ahdam means “the gathering of the spirit” and referred to the first “manager”/governance of all “hue-of-man” kind. The word image would have probably have been better translated as “pattern”.
 
James_S_Saint said:
But then if you do not respect your situation, you can’t expect it to respect you.

Ignore Reality and it doesn’t just ignore you, and it certainly doesn’t respect you.
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Turn down the distractions of the world, James S Saint, and listen to God in your heart. You don’t need anything but Him. He is all to live for and more.
 
lil_flower_luv said:
Turn down the distractions of the world, James S Saint, and listen to God in your heart. You don’t need anything but Him. He is all to live for and more.
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Well if you could explain how to do that any better than I do already, I’m all ears (or eyes in this case). :rolleyes:
 
as Catholics, we believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are separate Persons, yet are one in substance, will, intent, etc. When we say that the Son is seated at the right hand of the Father, is that metaphorical? In the separateness of the Persons (exemplified in the Incarnation, where we know that the Father and the Holy Spirit did not also Incarnate, just the Son), can we say that the Son is actually seated at the right hand of the Father, at least in some way? And this relates back to my question on the Father: we know that He is spirit. However does that mean that He is without form? As in, is the Father diffuse, immaterial, etc.?
 
James_S_Saint said:
All I can.

As far as I can tell, that is all I do (intentionally anyway).
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Care to elaborate? 🙂 Or would you rather speak in code? I know a lot of people who do “all they can” to know Christ, and it ain’t much.
 
lil_flower_luv said:
Care to elaborate? 🙂 Or would you rather speak in code? I know a lot of people who do “all they can” to know Christ, and it ain’t much.
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?? I’m a little confused as to what you are asking for. I’m certain you don’t want my version of the Gospel according to JSS. If you are asking for a list of good deeds, I would decline.
 
James_S_Saint said:
?? I’m a little confused as to what you are asking for. I’m certain you don’t want my version of the Gospel according to JSS. If you are asking for a list of good deeds, I would decline.
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I’m the kinda girl who looks deeper than someone’s post. I would just like to know…well, everything! But I guess you would have to PM me to elaborate on that. :o

Blessings,
Therese
 
lil_flower_luv said:
I’m the kinda girl who looks deeper than someone’s post. I would just like to know…well, everything! But I guess you would have to PM me to elaborate on that. :o
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Certainly would and even then, everything wouldn’t be enough and any would be too much. 🙂

I believe in the “live the life” principle. I have “been there, done that” concerning just about anything related to Jesus. Details sound far too boastful. But concealment is misleading. When “who I am” becomes more important than what I have said, then I haven’t said the right things. 😊
 
James_S_Saint said:
Certainly would and even then, everything wouldn’t be enough and any would be too much. 🙂

I believe in the “live the life” principle. I have “been there, done that” concerning just about anything related to Jesus. Details sound far too boastful. But concealment is misleading. When “who I am” becomes more important than what I have said, then I haven’t said the right things. 😊
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I see. Thank you. 🙂

Blessings,
Therese
 
Such is the life of a mere ant in someone else’s very large cornfield suffering from the pesticides along with the others. The only clear sight is straight up. But clouds don’t seen to disturb my vision very much. Even in the darkest days, I have always had my eye on the “prize”. There just isn’t much an another ant can do. 😉
 
James_S_Saint said:
Such is the life of a mere ant in someone else’s very large cornfield suffering from the pesticides along with the others. The only clear sight is straight up. But clouds don’t seen to disturb my vision very much. Even in the darkest days, I have always had my eye on the “prize”. There just isn’t much an another ant can do. 😉
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Very true! But there is a lot the Light can do through other ants! 😉
 
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