From: alarm@yabbs
To: Pele@yabbs
Subject: re: The Trinity
Date: Thu Aug 18 18:17:52 1994
I heard this great explanation of the Trinity that you might think about.

God spent a long time telling the Hebrew children that there is only one 
God and that he was it. The most repeated scripture for the Jews is the 
shema which means hear. Hear O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one. 

Then came Jesus. The disciples (Jews) saw him doing things that only God 
could do. Especially when he raised from the dead, but even before that 
they were experiencing God through Jesus Christ. Then the Holy Spirit came 
and again they were experiencing God through the Holy Spirit. Peter called 
Jesus God and Peter also called the Holy Spirit God.

But remember, Peter and the other apostles were Jews who primarily thought 
of God as one. So later theologians saw the witness of the apostles to the 
oneness of God and to the threeness of their experience and they termed 
the experience with God reported in the New Testament Trinity.

alarm