The Trinity: The Oneness of God

Before I try to explain an infinite God with my finite brain, I will bring this verse to mind: Proverbs 3:5-7 states, ''Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil." So, with this in mind, I will attempt to explain the Trinity.The best way to explain the Trinity is not with a statement, but with a question. If l were to take an egg, and crack the shell in half, and then use a strainer to separate the white and the yoke, then, if I set all three parts down separately on the counter, there would be three different things, with three completely unique characteristics.The shell is the protective coat, the white is the nutrition for the growing chicken, and the yoke is the thick protein substance that becomes the chicken.

The question, then, is: Which one is the egg?Most people would probably want to say. "Well, the yoke is the most important, and therefore it is the egg." However, it is not the most important, because all three are essential to bringing life. Without the yoke there could be no chicken.Without the white, it could never survive, and without the shell, it is breakfast.

So then, the egg is all three put into one. There is only one egg, but it consists of three parts. I believe that examples such as the egg, and other examples such as electrons, protons, and neutrons, reveal the characteristics of God Almighty.The properties found throughout the Universe in Quantum Physics, etc., show that things are consistently made of sets of three--the very substance of our matter, things smaller than electrons, protons, and neutrons are built on sets of three.I and many others believe that these attributes are all the fingerprint of God, revealing His divine characteristics.

Paul even before we saw such evidences in nature said:For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-- his eternal power and divine nature-- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse (Rom 1:20, NIV).Of what our finite brains can understand, God is much like the egg, only on an infinite scale. God is three unique persons, known as The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. Very clearly, throughout the Bible, God declares that there is only one God, see Isaiah 44:6, and yet all three are referred to as God.

In Revelation 1:17-18, Jesus takes the same title of First and Last that God the Father declared for Himself in the passage in Isaiah. How many firsts and lasts can there be?.Then, in 2 Corinthians 3:17, the Spirit is identified as the Lord, and we know then, that he must be one with Christ, for in 1 Corinthians 8:6, Paul states that there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ. It also speaks of reaping eternal life from the Spirit, Galatians 6:8, which puts Him in equality with God, for only God can give eternal life.Like the egg, each part, member, form, or "person" (for lack of any sufficient words) of the Trinity has His own unique features, but if you took one away, a vital piece would be missing. The Father loves the Son (John 3:35), the Son loves the Father, The Spirit loves Them both and vice versa.

This is why God is not an egoist. During His life on earth, Christ always pointed the finger toward God the Father, to glorify Him. Then, after the resurrection, The Father gave His glory to Christ, and whenever you see the Holy Spirit at work, He will always focus the attention to what Christ did on the cross. They work together in perfect unity, for they are One, but they are distinct in the actions and characteristics that we see.

One of the most unique examples, however, that God has given us of His own divine nature, of His own Oneness, is that of marriage:Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them (Gen 1:26-27, NIV).God is not alone even though He was before anything; He was never alone. When He created man, He said that it was "not good for man to be alone," and created a "help-meet" (Strong's #5828, 5048), an ally or helper suitable for man (Gen.

2:18).And scripture declares, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh" (Gen 2:24, NIV). In this simple aspect, God's infinite and divine Oneness is foreshadowed by the example of marriage that God has given us. However, marriage is but a glimpse--a picture--a shadow, of the Oneness that is found in the Trinity. We were created in His image, but we are but a vague reflection.