This past Sunday was Trinity Sunday, and because of playing for two different churches’ services that morning (one Lutheran, the other Methodist), I was again reminded of my own beliefs about the Trinity.

For years on occasion I’d ponder The Trinity in an attempt to grasp the concept, but in more recent years I’ve concluded that my beliefs differ from the mainstream ideals, whether right or wrong.

Of course anyone can “cherry pick” scriptures to support their own ideas, but after reading the Bible daily for many years, I’ve come to have more generalized concepts of viewing certain ideas as a whole rather than by individual parts. In that way, here are some of my conclusions.

God is the ultimate supreme being. Jesus certainly has all the same powers as God; however, on numerous occasions Jesus prayed to God. And that is one of the primary reasons why being One is an issue for me. On the one hand, he might have been leading by example, teaching us whom to go to, to lean on, to seek for help and assistance and comfort, etc. Yet, if they were on the same, equal level, there would be no need for Jesus to pray to God at all, other than as a sense of connectedness and fellowship. Yet, Jesus especially prayed fervently in the Garden of Gethsemane and even while hanging on the cross. Jesus also said, “I have come so that you may go directly to the Father,” an indication of God being a higher order being. And although certainly it isn’t right or wrong to pray to Jesus, for me that scripture has meant to pray directly to the Father. And I don’t view the Holy Spirit as a separate entity. The Spirit simply is God’s presence, a component of God—Jesus had it, the disciples were gifted with it at Pentecost, and it is present within those who are Christians. Sometimes it’s a voice in our head directing us as to how we should go. Sometimes it’s a comforting presence. Sometimes it’s a feeling that something isn’t right. Sometimes it’s an unexplainable welling up with joy. Sometimes it’s a sense of hope beyond hope. It is a connectedness with God. In many ways it makes sense for God to be present with us in spirit, since we are all spirits residing in human bodies, bodies that have an expiration date, but spirits that live on forever.

So, the concept of three in one? Maybe not really. Not that I claim to have all the “right” answers, but thus are my ponderings….

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