Trinitarian Theology Explained – Why the Trinity is so Confusing | God Loves Mormons

The Trinity is confusing, and many Latter-day Saints believe it can't be true because it can't be understood. Christians defend the Trinity, claiming that it is a doctrine taught in the Bible. Yet, if the doctrine of the Trinity is true, then why is it so difficult to understand? How can we believe in a God we cannot understand?

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[TheRastacabbage]

The trinity is so confusing because it was made up by some pagan philosophers mascarading as christians and then became 'christian' doctrine under the pagan roman emporer. The godhead is simple and is what is found in scripture

[rev.stephena.cakouros]

Excellent presentation because it points out that the Trinity could not have been derived from known data. It is therefore a revealed doctrine.
"Christianity is the one true religion because it is the one revealed religion." [BB Warfield]

[leonardobostick]

Me: hey, where did Jesus sit when he went back to heaven?
Trinitian: He sat next God
Me: If you believe Jesus is God you believe Jesus sat next to himself.
Trinitian:Yes
Me:

[chrishumphries]

So you would make an alter to the "unknown God"? (Acts 17:23). Isn't having Eternal Life defined as 'knowing the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom He hast sent'? That is the whole point of the gospel of Jesus Christ, to come to know and understand God.

[glenlyman]

Why is this directed toward "Mormons", it sounds like a lot of people need the explanation, especially the other Christians who misunderstand God in terms of Modalism. "Mormons" also believe that the Father is not the Son, and the Son is not the Spirit and the Spirit is not the Father. Like you, they believe that the Father is God, Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. They are all one God in purpose. They exist in 3 persons, equal and distinct from one another just as you say. And why waste your ministry on a whole website dedicated to Mormons? See the good they do now, not how they lived 200 years ago.

[claudiozanella]

Because it's nonsense. What is missing is an overview of all that matter and a logical boost. It is not appropriate for the almighty God to do his work now, in real time. The almighty God has already COMPLETED his work (but only from his point of view !!). "Completed" indeed means "completed in all respects", He could have been gone away! He didn't go away, He became like a man instead: "the Son of God" (with no power at all). This means that the Son is in reality now ALONE and is the only OWNER of everything. This all means that the almighty God cannot be here because He belongs to the past "The world has not known you". From that past God can be here only in the form of a spirit (NOBODY is here in reality). He is the Spirit of God.

[toye]

He is God, the One.
God, the Everlasting Refuge,  
who has not begotten, and has not been begotten,  
and equal to Him is not any one.

[RalphHumphries-thym]

The reason people don't believe in the Trinity is because they understand that God is 1 and Jesus is the Christ and not God but the Messiah and Holy Spirit is the power of God and not a person LoL

[roxics]

I’ve seen a lot of excuses to try and explain this. But it seems to me the most likely and logical explanation is also the simplest. That early Christians shoehorned Christ into God. Then tried to justify it through some convoluted trinity concept, while still trying to keep it monotheistic so as not to be confused with all that dirty paganism of the time.
In short, it’s confusing because it never made sense to begin with. Not because it’s beyond our understanding.

[mitchellc]

Hello

Jesus is the Messiah
The Son of God
The Son of David
The Son of man
The man God has chosen to be his anointed king
The man God will judge the world through
The man God raised from the dead

Jesus has a God
There is no triune god in scripture


Jesus said the Father is the only true God!

John 17
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

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[caseykaelin]

When you read John 20:17 carefully you realize Mary and the rest of the apostles have the same God and father Jesus Christ has. They and by default we are brothers and sisters along with Jesus.
This video does not explain why the trinity is true it only explains why we can't understand it but should believe it anyway.

[mightybay]

So if jesus is son of god, why is he so weak and helpless? Is god suppose to be the allmighty who can do everything?

[trailkeeper]

Thanks, I'm not Mormon, but I think your right. I take the Trinity concept as just fact and not as a strange/mystical idol as some want to make us believe, and hence deny all that God has done. For some willing, there is a Trinity Tree concept that can describe the Trinity deity relationships: trunk and branch structure = Father God, Fruit/Word = Son of God, and Seed = Spirit of God that we put into us to expell (ie. enmity as mentioned in Genesis) the seed of the devil which is the spirit of Sin. We do this so as to be reborn and allowed into heave without the spirit of sin (aka, original sin ability) still in us.

[RalphHumphries-thym]

🎉 God is one and his Son who he sent is not God he is the Messiah of God who Almighty God anointed him and made man and did everything his father told and did through him as Christ said the works i do are the father's and not mine and he has a God and he said he was greater than not coequal and served being his only begotten son and after his resurrection as a man has been given all authority and he will turn it right back as he always obedience and never God the son

[christopherasher]

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:”
— Deuteronomy 6:4 (KJV)

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
— Isaiah 9:6 (KJV)

“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.”
— Isaiah 12:2 (KJV)

“And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
— Isaiah 25:9 (KJV)

“I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.”
— Isaiah 43:11 (KJV)

Isaiah 45 (KJV)
²¹ Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
²² Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

“For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.”
— Isaiah 54:5 (KJV)

“Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.”
— Hosea 13:4 (KJV)

Psalms 22 (KJV)
¹⁶ For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
¹⁷ I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
¹⁸ They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.”
— Zechariah 12:10 (KJV)

“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”
— Micah 5:2 (KJV)

“And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.”
— Luke 1:47 (KJV)

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, ”
— Luke 1:68 (KJV)