The Triune God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit
SYMBOL OF TRINITY
What is Trinity?
Trinity is a concept or doctrine describing ”Three-in–One- nature” of One Almighty God.[Inferred in: Genesis 1:26/John 17:21]. It is about the invisibility of God revealed through the Bible to be understood in three natures.
The three natures are:-
(i) God as spiritual Father in heaven – reflecting God’s fatherly love and great providence for humankinds.
(ii) God’s Word [or Kalimatullah] sent down to earth through Virgin Birth [Inferred in John1:1-4; 14/Matthew 1:18; 20-2] in human form as Son in the person of Jesus Christ [or Yeshua al-Messiah] – reflecting and demonstrating God’s loving-kindness [like father-son relationship], His saving-grace, forgiveness, and empowerment over sins sickness/evil forces ...for believers and humankinds on earth. [Mark 16:17-18/John 1:12]
(iii) God’s own Holy Spirit or God’s invisible power by His omnipotent, omniscience, and omnipresence. [Inferred in Joel 2:28-29/Matthew 28:19/John 16:5-15/Acts 1:8/]
Is the word “Trinity” mentioned in the Bible?
No, there is not specific word “Trinity” written per se in the Bible. But the triune nature of God is inferred. Some of the inferences are already quoted above.
“The concept of Trinity contradicts the concept of your Christian belief in monotheism [believe in one God].Trinity also implies that you Christians believe in three distinctive gods namely: God the Father, God the Son in the person of Jesus, and God the Holy Spirit. What makes it even more confusing is when certain group of Christian referred to Mary as mother of God because Mary was the mother of Jesus Christ – implying that your God married”. The quotation is a summary of what someone said to me some years ago during an informal one-to-one-dialogue. To me the dialogue was useful. Below was my simple explanation in return.
The concept in regarding Jesus Christ as God’s Son can be understood contextually in term of four idiomatic comparisons or equivalent in Bahasa Malaysia below.
(i) The description of emerging moon at night is called “anak bulan”[literally means ”child of moon”]. Does it mean that there is male moon/bulan as father, and female moon/bulan as mother to produce “anak bulan”?
(ii) The description of small rivers being tributaries of a main river called “anak sungai” ”child of river”. Does it mean that there is male river/sungai as father, and female river/sungai as mother to produce “anak sungai”?
(iii) The description of an arrow as “anak panah” liyerally means ”child of an arrow”.......
(iv) The description of thumb as “ibu jari” (mother of fingers) hence implying that there is also “bapa jari” and “father of fingers” and “child of finger”.
The triune nature of God can be also understood in term of water in its liquid form, ice in its solid from, and steam in its boiling form [becoming power in propelling a steamship]. “Jesus Christ is Son of God” is Christian spiritual idiom to describe the nature of the invisible One God who said to Moses that His name was: “I AM WHO I AM” [Genesis 3:14]
To One Almighty God be gloty in Trinity !
