Who was in charge while the Trinity was being crucified?
When the one God became mortal under the name of Jesus, who was being God and tending to the faithful? Please, no double talk about one "aspect" being human while the other two were still God. If the trinity can go its separate ways, it is not one God, it's a committee. If Jesus is God, when Jesus becomes mortal, God becomes mortal. Or else they aren't really one God and Jesus is God's son. Which is a wonderful thing, but not the same as Jesus is his own father, God.
2010-07-19T19:31:57Z
tripageo, olderman and josh3 - if you have no idea, just say so, don't muddy the water.
2010-07-19T19:34:02Z
Mine N - OK, you don't know either and getting asked pisses you off. Got that, God bless you too.
2010-07-19T19:35:42Z
God loves Ann - I guess "essence" is like "aspect". A nice fuzzy word to slide over the rough spots with?
2010-07-19T19:38:50Z
wefmeister - the top contributor's answer is "we're not smart enough to know"? I know God made a logical universe so when something isn't logical, I'm pretty sure we we've got it wrong.
Anonymous2010-07-19T19:25:42Z
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I think in that situation the Secretary of Agriculture becomes God.
God has no obligation to fit into the finite space of your mind. That you don't understand Him fully is not a sufficient reason to reject God in The Trinity. That you choose to reject that which you do not understand, namely God in the Trinity, also is not an adequate reason for you to lash out at those with more complete understanding than yours, as you seem to have done to other respondents. I suspect you are angry that you don't know everything, and perhaps that is why you have lashed out at so many.
Unfortunately, your anger has impaired your understanding not only of God, but also of Logic. God is INFINITE. You are FINITE. It is not reasonable to subject the infinite to the finite and demand that the finite will contain the infinite. Your demand for perfect understanding of God is, literally, unreasonable.
God in fact exists in three persons, all of whom are one God. There never has been an occasion when God was mortal. There also never has been an occasion when a mere mortal fully understood God. I realize you are demanding an answer that leaves you with full understanding of God. The most sensible and honest answer to you is to tell you that no such answer possibly could exist.
Your demand is to have perfectly complete knowledge about a being who is infinite, but if you were qualified to learn such a thing, you already would know. That's not a wisecrack. It's the truth. Mere humans simply can not possibly have full and comprehensive understanding of God. If you say that you must, for Logical reasons, therefore reject God, I dispute your assertion. No one fully understands Light or gravity, but I'm sure you accept the existence of these things.
Light and gravity are not alleged, at least not to my knowledge, to be infinite, yet no one has complete knowledge of either, and you likely accept the existence of both light and gravity. Your standards for knowledge seem not to be consistent. You accept some things without perfect and comprehensive knowledge and understanding, but you reject other things - at least one other thing, God, because you lack perfect and comprehensive knowledge of Him. I mean no disrespect, but I must say plainly that you are being unreasonable.
If you desire a better ability to think about God, and to think in general, I recommend you read a book entitled "Orthodoxy." The author is G.K. Chesterton. If you read that book carefully, at least once, your question about the Trinity will make more sense to you. You'll realize that your question does not make sense. I am not saying merely that I don't understand the question. The question is, technically, incoherent or senseless.
The Trinity was not crucified. Jesus, the incarnate Son of God, was. The members of the Trinity are separate persons in our thinking, but are united in a way that's beyond us. It is what has been revealed to the prophets and the apostles. It just is.
God the Father is God. Jesus is from the Father and subjected to the Father while on the earth in the flesh. It is a little more involved to answer here, but the Trinity is no longer a mystery as it was in the past. It has been answered.