I shall quote from Article One of the '39 Articles of Religion'
:
"There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body,
parts, or passions; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the
Maker, and Preserver of all things both visible and invisible. And
in unity of this Godhead there be three Persons, of one substance,
power, and eternity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Ghost."
If he truly and fully comprehends the above and have a good
foundation of the written Word of God, he will know that Jesus is
God. And the concept of Holy Trinity is NOT three slices of Pizzas
making up one whole piece of Pizza.
To summarise:
1. God is One
2. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are personally distinct
3. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are spoken in terms of equal deity
and dignity.
4. When the personhood of each member of the Godhead is denied, the
result is modalism. (ie. God reveals Himself in different forms and
modes at different times) THIS IS WRONG TEACHING.
5. When the unity of Godhead is denied, the result is tritheism (3
gods??)
6. Mentally separating the Father from the Son (or any other
combinations) distorts sound biblical teachings about the Father as
well as about the Son. All 3 Persons of the Trinity are equally
merciful, loving, forgiving, holy, blessed, almighty and etc
etc....
The Divine attributes and reverence to be given are all equal. Not
a single of the member is inferior to the other two.
Lastly, the doctrine of Trinity is the profound mystery of God
Himself and any attempt to fully comprehend, dissect and analyse
using human mind is to seek the IMPOSSIBLE. There is a limit we can
go about our exploration and wat we do know is based on the written
word of God as He chose to reveal to us that much.
There is no doubt in what you are saying about unity of our 3
godhead but you cannot deny tritheism theory. We indeed serve 3
Gods with separate bodies but with one united personality and mind.
Why can't christian accept that fact? God 1 Father+God 2 Son+God 3
Holy Spirit = 3 Gods. Simple maths.
Act one of the 39 article is a theory set by man trying to explain
trinity. Technically, its still 3 persons, therefore 3 gods. We
cannot accept this because we are thinking human terms; how can 3
different person have a single personality and mind??? Right?
Christianity was persecuted initially because of Jesus. The Jews
cannot accept that there's another separate person from the one
true God. They have the idea that God is only one God. They were
unhappy because Jesus mentioned that he's of equal status as God
the father. His statements argues that there is another one besides
God who is the same as Him but of separate body. Monotheism is a
believe of one physical body God. While tritheism is a believe of 3
seperate body God. Monotheism cannot be explained in trinity
theology because of the 3 different body concept. The concept of
trinity was only introduced and accepted in 500BC. Abraham was
serving many other gods before his journey to the land of Canaan.
After experiencing God Yahweh's power, he left all other gods
behind for the promised land.
