The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament

[Ravenshire]

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So what's your take on the trinity?

They're one entity, one spirit, right?

If I fail to explain one of the most complicated doctrines of Christianity adequately, what? Does the problem lie with the doctrine or with me? 
But here's something I put together for someone else earlier this year:

Trinity - Basics
 
Understanding the inner life of an infinite, triune God is beyond us, and what we do know is only because of He has chosen to reveal it to us. 

There is only one God.
Within that one God are three persons.
They are not three Gods.

How is that possible? Well, consider that a dog is a being but not a person. A man is a being and one person. God is a being and three persons. From this you can see that while we usually think one being = one person, in fact, the number of persons "in" a being can vary depending on the nature of that being.

We have a human nature. God has a divine nature. The three persons who share the one divine nature are referred to by God Himself as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. All of them are referred to individually or collectively as "He". The Holy Spirit is not an "It".

Unlike human fathers who are older than their sons, God the Father did not exist before God the Son or God the Holy Spirit. 

The Father is God.
The Son is God.
The Holy Spirit is God.
The Father is not the Son or the Holy Spirit.
The Son is not the Father or the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is not the Father or the Son.
 
Two graphics that might help:

 

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The holy trinity is the cathylick church's way of shoehorning the idea of multiple gods into the idea of a single god to ease the transition of the pagan heathens when christeranity started spreading itself through force and conquest. It's the same reason all the pagan holidays survive today under the guise of christer holidays.