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Jesus is called Emmanuel, which means "God with Us". The Holy Spirit is God's Spirit and God is The Holy Father. Jesus, God and The Holy Spirit are one.
1 John 5:7 “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”
Matthew 1:23 “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”
Paul
God has clearly revealed that He consists of three separate divine Persons - God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit. In the Bible we see examples of each of them doing things only God could do. Can I "explain" how this is possible? No, since it is beyond understanding by mere human minds. I cannot "explain" how God created the universe either. But He is God, and therefore infinitely powerful.
TeeM
According to trinitarian scholars.
People cannot understand the trinity. One can only believe in it.
According to one 'pro-trinity' website which states:
"The Trinity is a controversial doctrine; many Christians admit they don't understand it, while many more Christians don't understand it but think they do.
In fact, although they'd be horrified to hear it, many Christians sometimes behave as if they believe in three Gods and at other times as if they believe in one."
This site goes on to say:
"Scripture and the Trinity
For obvious reasons the Trinity is not referred to in the Old Testament, . . . The New Testament of the Bible never explicitly refers to the Trinity"
My favorite comment from this site is:
"The mystery of the Trinity: (1+1+1=1) = Nonsense!
This idea that three persons add up to one individual seems like nonsense. And logically, it is.
So Christians don't try to understand the doctrine of the Trinity logically or as a problem of arithmetic."
Remember, this is a 'pro-trinity' site.
God's word is very direct in who is God and who Jesus is.
(Psalm 83:18) “18 May people know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth.”
(John 10:36) “36 do you say to me whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?”
Thus Jehovah alone is God Almighty and Jesus is Jehovah's Son.
As to the holy spirit, It is described as 'God's holy spirit' and 'the spirit of God.'
Thus God's spirit belongs to God and is a part of God.
Jesus calls this spirit the finger of God.
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The essence of the "Holy Three", mentioned in Mt. 28:19 and 2 Cor. 13:14 are described as "Divine Nature", "Deity", and "Godhead". Colossians, Acts 17, 2 Peter 1.
Glenn S
God is three Persons in one essence; the Divine essence subsists wholly and indivisibly, simultaneously and eternally, in the three members of the one Godhead—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The Scriptures are clear that these three Persons together are one and only one God (Deuteronomy 6:4). John 10:30 and 33 explain that the Father and the Son are one. First Corinthians 3:16 shows that the Father and the Spirit are one. Romans 8:9 makes clear that the Son and the Spirit are one. And John 14:16, 18, and 23 demonstrate that the Father, Son, and Spirit are one.Yet, in exhibiting the unity between the members of the Trinity, the Word of God in no way denies the simultaneous existence and distinctiveness of each of the three Persons of the Godhead.
In other words, the Bible makes it clear that God is one God (not three), but that the one God is a Trinity of Persons.In the Old Testament, the Bible implies the idea of the Trinity in several ways. The title Elohim (”God”), for instance, is a plural noun which can suggest multiplicity (cf. Genesis 1:26). This corresponds to the fact that the plural pronoun (”us”) is sometimes used of God (Genesis 1:26; Isaiah 6:8). More directly, there are places in which God’s name is applied to more than one Person in the same text (Psalm 110:1; cf. Genesis 19:24). And there are also passages where all three divine Persons are seen at work (Isaiah 48:16; 61:1).
The New Testament builds significantly on these truths, revealing them more explicitly. The baptismal formula of Matthew 28:19 designates all three Persons of the Trinity: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.” In his apostolic benediction to the Corinthians, Paul underscored this same reality. He wrote, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God [the Father], and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all” (2 Corinthians 13:14). Other New Testament passages also spell out the glorious truth of the Triune God (Romans 15:16, 30; 2 Corinthians 1:21–22; Ephesians 2:18).
In describing the Trinity, the New Testament clearly distinguishes three Persons who are all simultaneously active. They are not merely modes or manifestations of the same person (as Oneness theology incorrectly asserts) who sometimes acts as Father, sometimes as Son, and sometimes as Spirit. At Christ’s baptism, all three Persons were simultaneously active (Matthew 3:16–17), with the Son being baptized, the Spirit descending, and the Father speaking from Heaven. Jesus Himself prayed to the Father (cf. Matthew 6:9), taught that His will was distinct from His Father’s (Matthew 26:39), promised that He would ask the Father to send the Spirit (John 14:16), and asked the Father to glorify Him (John 17:5). These actions would not make sense unless the Father and the Son were two distinct Persons. Elsewhere in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit intercedes before the Father on behalf of believers (Romans 8:26), as does the Son, who is our Advocate (1 John 2:1). Again, the distinctness of each Person is in view.The Bible is clear.
There is only one God, yet He exists, and always has existed, as a Trinity of Persons—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit (cf. John 1:1-2). To deny or misunderstand the Trinity is to deny or misunderstand the very nature of God Himself.