About the “Trinity” Doctrine….

Earlier today in a Linked IN Group discussion, the subject of the “Trinity” came up and once again we had people explaining what the “Trinity” Doctrine is, what the bible has to say on it, and what it is that so many say that others must believe or should believe about it, etc.  So below is what I shared in the group’s discussion…..

Are we missing the point though in all of this based on the record of the bible?? What I mean by this is that when we look to what the writings in the bible have to say, what it is that Jesus had to say on these points, are we not in having discussions like this trying to say what God is, what Jesus is, what the Holy Spirit it, how they manifest, etc, simply not a denial or rejection of what is in the pages of the bible?

See from the beginning of the bible, it records that God revealed Himself, walked with Adam, spoke to His creation as He created it, and all through the pages of the bible we don’t see any record of people being told to tell others about God, what God is, it was something that God himself took care of making known to each person, in a way in which they knew in whom they were hearing and learning from.

There are various means by which we see this “revealing” or “making known” recorded to have happened, but in each case it is God himself that is recorded to have made Himself known and even God that is shown to have made His Christ known to others Himself.

Then we move over to the words of Jesus Christ… that no man knows the Son but the Father, the Father but the Son, and to whom He chooses to reveal Him. Jesus goes on to say that eternal life, that he has come to give is that “to know the one true God and Christ whom He sent”. So Jesus gives in his “way” the means by which one is to “know the one true God and Jesus Christ”…. and then we see the disciples, after becoming disciples of His, being asked who do you say that I am, a response coming, and then Jesus saying “flesh and blood” has not revealed this…..

I understand that we’re all sharing our own understanding here of God, the bible and the Trinity… but isn’t it in direct opposition with what our own bibles record God did Himself.. what it is that Jesus said that God would do and the provisions that Jesus said that His “way” was given for when we do?

If as Jesus said to His disciples, “the Father knows what ye have need of before ye ask”.. and speaks of all the provisions that God has Himself made available to man… then what ever would give us the reason to think that God doesn’t know what we each have need of in the way of knowing who He is, being able to know God when He reveals Himself or makes Himself known to us… and if our trust is to be in God in all things… and we’re not to be hearkening to the voice of any other in matters pertaining to God, then how can we take from anyone else who is NOT GOD who God is, or what God is without being in direct opposition to so much of what the bible outlines is to be done by God Himself?

Has anyone ever considered that the reason there is so much division among people over this point is because we keep having all of this coming to us from the result of hearkening to the voice of another, rather than trusting God to reveal to us whatever it is that we are to know about Him as well???

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