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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.

Update:

tripageo, olderman and josh3 - if you have no idea, just say so, don't muddy the water.

Update 2:

Mine N - OK, you don't know either and getting asked pisses you off. Got that, God bless you too.

Update 3:

God loves Ann - I guess "essence" is like "aspect". A nice fuzzy word to slide over the rough spots with?

Update 4:

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.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I think in that situation the Secretary of Agriculture becomes God.

  • 1 decade ago

    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.

    I am Roman Catholic.

    Peace be with you.

  • 1 decade ago

    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.

    Blessings.

    /Orthodox

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That is a misconception of the trinity. God is 3 in person, 1 in essence.

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  • Josh6
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    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.

    Source(s): The Unveiling of the Trinity
  • 1 decade ago

    Here is your problem - you cannot comprehend a God who is One with Three Persons because you would make Him after your image and likeness. You cannot grasp a God with no beginning and no end either; so why would you dismiss Him as impossible because you cannot fathom His nature?

    I once heard a layman's description of Einstein's concept of the universe as being a five dimensional spheroid object that evolves back around on itself.

    I don't have a clue what that actually means, but I am not qualified to dismiss it as wrong because of my lack of comprehension.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    God and the Holy Spirit were in charge. Read the following and tell me who sent your redeemer and who was your redeemer...

    Isaiah 48:12-13; 16-17 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.....Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

    edit: I find it interesting how anti-trinitarians think they are so cleaver by saying ONE can mean only ONE. You think you have it all figured out and seem to quiver in your own pride. Read the following...

    Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

    I've been married for over 33 years and can promise you that my wife and I are still two separate people and yet according to the verse I quoted we are ONE flesh in God's eyes.

    Open your mind my friend. You might be shocked at what you will learn.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The trinity is taken from old 3 headed Gods and then used to represent Mind Body Spirit. Christian writers just adapted it to their God worship traditions and beliefs.

  • Mike N
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Your "logic" underpinning your "question" shows a complete failure to understand God or a willingness to do so. If you don't like the way things are about God, tough! What you call "doubletalk" is divine rationale, and I would hope many of us here wouldn't stoop to trying to answer your "question" your way. The "question" is senseless, and so would the answer be. God Bless you.

    Source(s): I'm a Roman Catholic of near 60 years now and a mental health professional with over two decades experience, now retired.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because god had already paid for the sins of the world, Jesus was pompous, so he got to experience the glory of death. Jesus then also got the experience the glory of true hell and returned in three days to do gods majesty and power. But, got had just invented it, so there's no riding on the pavement with your face looking for it, its just there from time to time, if your capable and all the sickness. Maybe for a skateboarder?

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