The "Trinity"

This is a work in progress..... 

A dear friend, a "Sister in Christ" and I have discussed the "Trinity".  I thought some of my thoughts might be good for a blog...

Scripture doesn't specifically use the word "TRINITY", but there are references to the Three working together. I actually decided to look for the word in Scripture - NOT THERE! But the instances are there where they are mentioned together. So, then I googled trinity. Wikipedia was very informative. I didn't read it all, so I need to send myself a note to work and print it there! 
I believe all three are God, but separate facets of God.  I believe They were together when the world was created.  I believe They were all present when Jesus was baptized. I believe that when the Holy Spirit dwells within us, we are in union with Them.  I also believe that there is NO reason to make an issue of this.

Some interesting points. Because Jesus was born of a woman (through the Holy Spirit - THAT in itself is a mind-twister!), He became a man. He is both human and divine. His mission on earth was to draw all men to God, to show people what God was truly like. He was also here to show us how to live - in close communion with God - from whom He drew His strength. He healed people of their diseases, He raised people from the dead, He forgave people their sins. Only God can forgive sins, right? But Jesus forgave. Peter, John and Paul healed people - but through the Holy Spirit. Jesus was humble. He knew He was God, but He didn't demand the glory given to Him. (Satan, on the other hand, wants to be worshipped. He wants to be God.) Because Adam sinned, he had to die. God warned him that he would die if he disobeyed God. But who would atone for the death? There had to be blood for blood. An animal really can't take our sins. The animal sacrifice was a "TYPE". Someone perfectly sinless had to die for the sins of the world, so Jesus came to this earth to show man that it is possible to live in perfect obedience to God. Then He died for all of us.

As for how the Holy Spirit can be in more than one place at a time and still be a person? Lol, I have no clue. But I accept it.

 
John 14:8-10

⁸ Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
⁹ Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

Mark 3:28-30

²⁸ Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, ²⁹ but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”

Luke 12:9-11

⁹ But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned before the angels of God. ¹⁰ And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
Numbers 11:16-18

¹⁶ The LORD said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel’s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you. ¹⁷ I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone.

Leviticus 24:15-16

¹⁵ Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible; ¹⁶ anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.

John 4:23-25

²³ Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. ²⁴ God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” 

Hebrews 11:1

¹ Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

Following are a bunch of Scipture references....Feel free to look them up:

HOLY SPIRITGen 1:20,26, 3:22, 6:3, 11:7
Ex 31:3
Num 24:2, 11:17,25,26
Judges 6:34, 3:10, 11:29
1 Sam 10:6
Job 33:4, 34:14,15
Ps 104:30
Isaiah 42:1, 48:16, 63:11
Joel 2:28

Matt 12:31,32, 28:19, 3:16,17, 1:18-20
Mark 1:9,10
Luke 12:12; 1:35, 24:49, 4:1
John 16:7-9,13,14; 7:39, 20:22, 14:16-18, 3:5, 15:26, 17:3
Acts 15:28, 13:2, 5:3,4; 1:8 2:2-4,33, 16:7,
Rom 8:2, 15:30, 8:9,11,26;
1 Cor 2:10-11, 12:3-13, 3:16
2 Cor 13:4;
Gal 4:6
Eph 4:30
Phil 1:19
Heb. 9:14,15
1 Peter 1:2,11;
2 Peter 1:21;


JESUSPs 16:10, 34:20, 8:5
Is 7:14, 9:6,7, 61:1,2, 53:2-8, 42:1
Daniel 9:24-27
Micah 5:2
Zech 12:10

Matt 28:18-20, 9:6, 3:3, 1:18-23, 21:9, 26:39-44
Mark 1:15,24, 6:3,46
Luke 3:21,22, 24:36-43
John 1:2-4,14,18,31-37, 4:18,19, 5:26-29, 11:25,26, 17:2, 8:58, 20:7, 10:30, 19:30
Acts 2:22,29-31
Rom 1:3,
1 Cor 15:45,47
Gal 4:4
Phil 2:6-11
Col 1:16,17, 2:3,
1 Tim 3:16, 2:5
Heb 13:8, 1:3,6, 5:7-9, 2:9,10,14-18, 4:15
1 Pet. 1:19
1 John 4:2
Rev 1:17,18

I AM BLESSED!!!!
KEEP SMILING!!  :)