These devotions are usually right on, but in trying to illustrate the Triune nature of God you described the god of modalism. That He is one god playing three roles.

You are right though, it is unfathomable and that is where the difficulty in properly illustrating His Trinity begins. (First time I had any issue with a "Right From the Heart" devotion though! - Pregador27

The one God who revealed Himself in the Old Testament as Jehovah revealed himself in His Son, Jesus Christ. Thus Jesus Christ was and is God. In other words, Jesus is the one true God manifested in flesh, for in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (John 1:1-14; I Timothy 3:16; Colossians 2:9).

While fully God, Jesus was also fully man, possessing a full and true humanity. He was both God and man. Moreover, the Holy Spirit is God with us and in us. Thus God is manifested as Father in creation and as the Father of the Son, in the Son for our redemption, and as the Holy Spirit in our regeneration.

- Rick

Thanks for your daily devotions! Regarding God being three in One, I compare it to water - it is liquid, it is ice when frozen, and it is a mist or steam during condensation. Even if we don't grasp the mystery of God now, we can know that we have been saved through His precious Son Jesus by His death and resurrection, and that Holy Spirit guides us and leads us and comforts us, and that God is our awesome Creator and Heavenly Father Who blesses us with His mercy and grace and gifts every day. We may not totally understand the "trinity" but we can experience God in all His three persons every day. May God continue to bless you and your ministry! - Rita Meagher

Your statement that no other religion teaches God as a trinity is untrue. Hinduism and Budhism were teaching the trinary nature of God when Christianity was just another annoying cult.

Moreover, the trinity (Note that I do not capitalize the word.) can be easily demonstrated: Take a pencil or any object and place it on a table. Now move it a few inches to one side. That is how easily the trinity can be demonstrated. The creation of the reality in which the pencil exists in its new location is to the destruction of the reality in which it existed in its old location and to the salvation of all potentials therein. Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Siva the Destroyer. Creation, Salvation and Judgement (vis, destruction) always go together as one system. The concept is not beyond the ken of men, who came up with the idea. Your attempt to portray the trinity as something unfathomable is just another way in which you keep your charge unempowered and dependent upon you. Your deceit will be found, and you will be deposed. Except, of course, that you repent of your transgression and inform your people of the simple truth.

- Thomas Michael Askew

I know that this forum welcoms all comments as long as they are not mean spirited, but it seems that we have people who doesn't respect this sites freedom to write and explain the scriptures as they interpret them. (They do pay the bill). If people dont want to believe as Bro Bryant believes then go somewhere else. I don't agree with the belief of homosexuals or atheists but I don't go on their site and try to inject my beliefs there. Bro Bryant I respect you and I rejoice with you that we have a God that is the supreme creator and he is the one who will welcome his true believers into Heaven and will pass judgement on those who do. He is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, praise his holy name. That makes up the Holy Trinity (notice I did capitalize ). - Jerry

Thomas Michael Askew....
You are too smart for your own good. Perhaps if you didn't already "know" so much you might humble your self enough to learn something. Sometimes there are things that we can't, as humans, understand and we must have faith and know that God is much, much more wise that we (including you) are. It has nothing to do with keeping anyone dependant on anyone except God. I'll be praying that God gives you true wisdom, forgivness and grace. - Jennifer

I am a member of Bryant's church, and can tell you for certain that he understands the concept of the trinity as it is revealed in scripture, and is not a modalist. His point is, we can try to explain it to someone as being in the roles of a father, son and husband, but that is not adequate. The bible teaches that God is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who are three, eternally distinct persons with a single nature. This is Bryant's point when he says the Son prays to the Father, because it's not possible then that they are then both the same person but acting in different roles.

Also, it's not surprising that we cannot fully comprehend how God can be three persons with one nature when we are merely finite beings. God is by nature non physical and outside time and space. We as humans in this space-time continuum do not have a vantage point to be able to fully comprehend that. That is why there is not really an analogy that is adequate.

Thomas, I'm actually not sure what you're trying to say, but your comment does not describe the trinity as it is revealed in scripture. - RickY

hey thomas, you can use all your big words, but there is only one four letter word you should remember. that is hell because whether you believe it or not. it is hot there forever.. bob - bob

Thomas Michael Askew, When you brought up the pencil I thought you were going to say how it is in some ways like the Trinity. I thought first of the eraser and how our sins are erased, then there is the lead which is used to record the Word, there is the wood encasing which holds it all together and makes it effective for use and beneficial to humans, when the Word is written down and goes out from the physical source from which it came (the body of the pencil) then people are drawn to the writing to read the Word, then the Word may be memorized and rooted in a person's heart and shared with others as the Holy Spirit works with the Word. These were some thoughts that came to mind thanks to your mention of the pencil. I know the pencil is not a clear representation of the Trinity but its parts and function do contain some aspects of the beautiful mystery of the Trinity. - Janice

Let Thomas commment as he will as he's entitled to his views but don't let it get to you please. For him to come into a forum like this to express such nonsense must mean he needs to find himself or is extremely bored. It would be the equivalent of me going and ranting in a Muslim forum about how ludicrus the notion of killing in the name of Allah would be. My thoughts and energy are reserved for one god only and for my savior Jesus Christ. I have no interest in learning about or bashing other religions. - Matthew

Jonathan Christopher Oberman isn't back is he? Sounds awful familiar. Anywho, I guess it's a simplified way of looking at it, but to me the 3 in one is similar to any family. I, my husband, and my children are each individuals. Anyway there are 4 of us, but we are one family. So we could be considered 4 individuals or 1 as in 1 family. Both are true, yet different. Don't get mad, but sometimes I think we can over complicate things. Since God did speak about Jesus as His son as He was being baptized and said that He was His Son in whom He was well pleased. It only makses sense to me they are two separate spirits. Christ speaks of the Holy Spirit as separate to Him so to me that means they are to a degree separate. I know that's just my theology, but there it is. It's something we evidently won't completely understand in this world anyway. - Christ Follower

"I'm a father to my three sons--they know me one way. I'm a son of my parents--they know me another way. I'm the husband of my wife--she knows me another way."
--this part, in itself rightly say modalism, so this kind of saying is not good. but thanks anyway! - sungtae cho

Christ Follower...
I think you are right, that is a very simple, yet logical way of looking at it. Thank you. - Jennifer

When I think of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, I think of how each form of God serves a specific function and necessitates a different "form" to do so. A simplistic analogy of the three forms of water (and the forms that God communicates/relates to us) are vapor (Spirit), liquid water (the Father) and ice, a solid, (the Son) - all three are still water (H2O).

For the sake of deeper discussion and clarity: Now, someone else can address why we pray to the Heavenly Father in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Power of the Holy Spirit

Blessings to all, C - cannjensen

I really enjoyed reading this page... and I would Like to put in a few words.... 1st.. I really don't get the pencil thing, but ok we'll go with it, I don't think this example in anyway describes the Trinity, the pencil is still 1 and can only be in one place.... I don't think you can judge someone either and tell them they are sinning.... I think only God can do that.

And the idea of 1 family and four people is interesting I have to say I've never heard of it but I don't think that's what God means when he says in 1 John 5:7 (KJV)
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

I don't think we can fully understand it but we get a good idea....

1 Thessalonians 5:23
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole SPIRIT and SOUL and BODY be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

you see we are tree too, body the part we can see and touch, soul our mind, thoughts and feelings, and our spirit, where the Holy spirit lives, this is the part of us that goes to heaven....

God made us in His image.... like Him.

If God wasn't able to be three persons then we would have a problem... God has to be in control and "run" the world.... to judge and love us, and Christ had to come and save us, and the Holy spirit is with us now to help us live the life God wants us too.

Without all of them what would happen?

I have two more thoughts on this, I see many different people with different thoughts and ideas and I know that no one knows everything and no one can, and I don't know everything either, but I want to ask you all somethings.... somethings to think about really think about....

We know no one knows everything, so lets pretend that you know half of everything..... so what might exist in the half that you don't know?

And,

Do you really believe that what you believe is really real?
- Cass