Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Faith and the Trinity.

Faith is a Gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by God.  We must remember that this gift is not given to us by flesh and blood but by our Father in Heaven.

Now there is open debate of what this heavenly God is all about.  In the Catholic faith, we believe that there is a thing called the Trinity.  Father, Son and Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost.  No one comprehends the thoughts of God, but the Spirit of God.  And the Spirit of God is divided into three main segments, the Trinity.  God, the Son, or as he is commonly called, Jesus, comprehended the thoughts of God the Father because he was "the Word made flesh".  

Now there are many words for God.  Now there are many words for God.  The Hebrew word for God is YHVH or yod-heh-vav-heh, which translates roughly to Jehovah or Yahweh.  In Arabic and Aramaic, the world is Allah or Eli.  Any way you look at it, Jesus was this word manifest as it could possibly be in human form.  He was the Messiah or as the Zoroastrians say the Saochyant.  Time started over for most people in memory of his birth in Bethlehem so many years ago.

In addition to the Son, there is the Holy Spirit, a both feminine and masculine presence.  The Holy Spirit takes many forms to move in the lives of the faithful.  It is by the Holy Spirit that we have the Gifts of the Spirit in the first place.  The more you let the Holy Spirit manifest in your life, the better off you will be.  But it is through Faith that all of this is possible.

Remember that one cannot believe in Christ without sharing of his spirit.  It is of course the Holy Spirit that teaches men and women to say that Jesus is Lord.  One must have the interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, which moves in the heart and converts it to God, Almighty.  If you open your eyes to the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, you too will believe in the awesome power of God, Almighty.

The Trinity is like an egg.  It has a shell, egg whites and yolk, but it is one egg.  Such is true about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  The Father is like the yolk, the Son is like the whites of the egg and the Holy Spirit is like the shell that we see today, but it is all one egg that comprises God.  God is one entity even though it is divided.

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