Catholics: Please explain this to me?

Christ’s divinity is shown over and over again in the New Testament. For example, in John 5:18 we are told that Jesus’ opponents sought to kill him because he "called God his Father, making himself equal with God."

In John 8:58, when quizzed about how he has special knowledge of Abraham, Jesus replies, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am"—invoking and applying to himself the personal name of God—"I Am" (Ex. 3:14). His audience understood exactly what he was claiming about himself. "So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple" (John 8:59).

In John 20:28, Thomas falls at Jesus’ feet, exclaiming, "My Lord and my God!" (Greek: Ho Kurios mou kai ho Theos mou—literally, "The Lord of me and the God of me!")

In Philippians 2:6, Paul tells us that Christ Jesus "[w]ho, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be g.asped" (New International Version). So Jesus chose to be born in humble, human form though he could have simply remained in equal glory with the Father for he was "in very nature God."

Also significant are passages that apply the title "the First and the Last" to Jesus. This is one of the Old Testament titles of Yahweh: "Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Yahweh of armies: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; besides me there is no god’" (Is. 44:6; cf. 41:4, 48:12).

This title is directly applied to Jesus three times in the book of Revelation: "When I saw him [Christ], I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, ‘Fear not, I am the First and the Last’" (Rev. 1:17). "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the First and the Last, who died and came to life’" (Rev. 2:8). "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the end" (Rev. 22:12–13).

This last quote is especially significant since it applies to Jesus the parallel title "the Alpha and the Omega," which Revelation earlier applied to the Lord God: "‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty" (Rev. 1:8).

As the following quotes show, the early Church Fathers also recognized that Jesus Christ is God and were adamant in maintaining this precious truth.

http://www.catholic.com/library/Divinity_of_Christ...

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In seeking to understand the traditional family, Christians should keep in mind that not only are individual persons created in the image of God, but so is the family itself. The human family is the closest analogy that mankind will ever come to concretely understanding the Blessed Trinity.

The creeds teach that while there is one God, He exists in three distinct persons. The bible, on the other hand, reveals that man is made in the 'image of God'. From these two truths, therefore, we can acknowledge that the complete image of God is found in the Triune understanding of Him.

This understanding of His Triune nature is reflected by the human family whose personal relationships approach the likeness of the Trinity.

There are multiple demonstrations of this truth.

Consider the unity of the Trinity which is reflected in the unity of the family. Or the "family of persons" which is found in both. The persons of the Trinity share the 'same substance ' while a human family becomes one flesh: wife with husband and parents with children.

There is also another element in the Trinity that lends itself to human likeness. The Nicene Creed professes this about the Trinity: "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life who proceeds from the Father and the Son."

In Catholic theology, the Holy Spirit is said to proceed from the will of both the Father and the Son, or in other words, through the activity which they engage in, otherwise known as "love".

The Holy Spirit is poured forth through the exchange of love between the Father and the Son. This is why perhaps Jesus says to the Apostles: " Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you." (John 16:7)

In the eternal economy of the Trinity, therefore, a person 'proceeds' from the love between two other persons. And so, the Holy Spirit is love 'proceeding' or 'coming from' the first two persons of the Blessed Trinity.

The human family has a rather striking parallel to this dynamic. The ultimate act of intimacy in a marriage mirrors the eternal exchange of love between the first two persons of the Trinity.

And like the eternal or continual procession of the Holy Spirit in the Trinity, the act of love between a man and a woman causes a 'procession' of another human person (i.e. the birth of a child).

The Trinity (a word that could be interpreted as a thing of Three parts) is a mistery by faith for Catholics that represent the Three manifectations of God. The Trinity consist of the Father (God), the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit (what we receive thru Baptize). Three different manifectations or forms of God but each one are the same and only one God.

Sure one could try to explain the big idea on YA format. That is the fun of the challenge.

Children mature to become fathers, within the Existence. Jesus was Created by Father and became One with Father. That is what the Bible leans on explaining Existence. Our lives are about this cycle of birth, maturing and death.

The Trinity comes from Animism which transcends into Theism. In Animism, the One Spirit is the Everything Existing. Every object, life or happening has a Spirit which is integral of the One Spirit. One of the Spirits is the Spirit of Man, which transcends into God of Man through the Maturing of Individual and Collective Self-Awareness of Man. Mankind is part of One Spirit, but the Trinity explains the Idea of the Transcending of it, the Dualism, the Maturing of Life in relationship to everything that exists toward becoming One with It within the Absolute Cycle.

Understanding Dualism is where the Rationality of people obtains diverse forms which appear confronting.

Yes, Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus and the Father are One. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit make up the Holy Trinity. They are all one in being.

This is Much too complicated to explain in a simple Y Q&A.

J W and R C have different theological beliefs which are similar in some ways and radically different in others. RC claims it is the original and only correct version of Christianity. JW is very new and has ideas that many other Christian sects believe are wrong.

The idea of the Trinity is a Christian Faith belief that cannot be explained in any logical or rational way. the very idea of God can not be proven or disproven.

the three major western religions are the Monotheistic or Abraham's traditions, Judaism Christianity with all its variations, and Islam. Eastern Religions are different

try to read works by Joseph Campbell, one of the greatest modern writers on world religion.

You have a lot to learn, good luck

Jesus showed He was God by constantly doing things only God could do - commanding the laws of nature, healing incurable diseases, multiplying matter, raising the dead, accepting worship, forgiving sins, and rising from the dead by His own power as He said He would do. The Bible also tells us that "in the beginning was the Word [Jesus], and the Word was with God and the Word WAS God", and then later, "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us". Here is the Christian Church's constant teaching on the nature of God as revealed by Jesus:

http://www.ccel.org/creeds/athanasian.creed.html

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John 1:1 says that

Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

See Jesus is the word and he was also God.

Jesus is fully God and fully man and the Son of God. It's no use explaining the Trinity to you because you will not understand it. No body does. The mystery of the Trinity is inaccessible to the human mind and is the object of faith only.

The Bible isnot the sole authority the Church, who wrote the Bible is.

Jesus is God,

IN the beginning, was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and God was the WORD. This was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him: and without him was made ‘nothing’. That which was made, [Jn. 1, 1-3]

AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, and dwelt in us (and we saw the glory of him, glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and verity. [Jn. 1, 14]

Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bear a son: and thou shalt call his name JESUS, He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the most High, and our Lord God shall give him the seat of David his father: [Luke 1, 31-32]

And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord doth come to me? [Luke 1, 43] (Mother of My Lord, that is also the Mother of my God; for God is our Lord).

Jesus also said we have ONE LORD:

And JESUS answered him, That the first commandment of all is, Hear Israel: the Lord thy God, is one God. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole power. This is the first commandment. [Mk. 12, 29-30]

And yet He said that He is the Lord:

And JESUS answering, said, teaching in the temple, How do the Scribes say, that Christ is the son of David? For David himself saith in the holy Ghost: Our Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I put thine enemies the footstool of thy feet. David therefore himself calleth him Lord, and whence is he his son? And a great multitude heard him gladly. [Mk. 12, 35-37]

"I and the Father are one." [Jn. 10, 30]

And said to him, "If thou be the son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, That he will give his Angels charge of thee, and in their hands shall they hold thee up, lest perhaps thou knock thy foot against a stone." JESUS said to him again, "It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." [Matth. 4, 6-7]

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