Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Shu Fang Tasi asked;
"Reading the bible is most confusing. There is only one God but it teaches of God the father, God the son and God the holy spirit. How can there be three Gods and only one God?"

You have asked a question, the answer to which may seem to defy all logic and is a stumbling block to many. The problem has been approached in many different ways, but the answer that seems easiest for me to understand and explain is simply to point to God’s crowning creation; mankind.
Gen. 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

YOU are the best illustration of the Trinity of which I know. You were created in His image and you are a threefold being, You have a body, a mind and a spirit. Sometimes we see people whose mind is gone but their body still lives. There are times when your body is at rest, but your mind wanders afar. The spirit is dead and must be "born again" and until it is, man is but a partial or warped image of God, in whose image he was created.

We often speak of, "My body" but my body is not ME, Neither is my mind or my spirit ‘ME’. It takes all three, but there is only one ‘ME’

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So the Father would be the mind and the Son would be the body. When they killed the Body the mind and the Spirit remained and caused the Body to revive?

freddie said...

freddie responds; I am sorry for the delay. I have been ill. Your insight is commendable however I wouldn't carry the analogy much further.A wise man once said that studying the Bible is like eating some fish. You run across a bone and lay it aside for chewing on later. As you progress in studying the Bible you will find the things which seem puzzling at first really become much clearer. Please keep studying and feel free to ask questions. Freddie