r/CatholicMemes • u/BigDiscipline6275 Child of Mary • 1d ago
Casual Catholic Meme No one can fully understand the glory of trinity
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u/beobabski 1d ago
From the Creed, I think I can understand how the Son is, but I cannot grasp how the Holy Spirit is. I think I’m looking at it fundamentally wrong.
It’s not “loves”, although I think that’s kind of the right lines. It’s more imbues or breathes or something that we don’t have a word for.
Enspirits, perhaps.
Anyway; fascinating subject.
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u/BigDiscipline6275 Child of Mary 1d ago
Anytime I try to understand Holy Spirit I just get confused.Its just so incredible
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u/Revolution_Suitable Tolkienboo 1d ago
The Holy Spirit is the part of God that is in us, among other things.
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u/RedRising1917 1d ago edited 17h ago
Theology for Beginners by Frank sheed kind of breaks it down into a more understandable fashion, but essentially the Holy Spirit is a result of the eternal and infinite love that the Father and Son have for each other, essentially their love made manifest into its own distinct being. The one that was actually harder for me to wrap my head around was the Son. There's a lot more to that than you'd think.
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u/DangoBlitzkrieg 1d ago
My favorite thing is watching Muslims who are debating Christian’s (grassroots ones) go
- Did Jesus pray to God in this passage?
- Did he pray to himself then?
- Clearly the trinity is false
Like bro you do not understand what the trinity is even on the conceptual level that IS possible lol
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u/BigDiscipline6275 Child of Mary 1d ago
That one muslim blonde girl made this stupid point.She is called Lily Jay or something like that
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u/DangoBlitzkrieg 1d ago
It’s only Muslims who don’t take any time to learn what Christianity actually teaches.
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u/blitz24_98 1d ago
I’m glad I don’t understand the Trinity. It draws me into a mystery and experience that reminds me that God is much bigger than me and that He is the one in control.
We’re certainly invited into this Mystery, to experience the love of His very being. And makes our God a wondrous and generous God, who gives great gifts to His creation.
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u/BigDiscipline6275 Child of Mary 1d ago edited 17h ago
Im glad I feel the same as you now.
However when I was little I tried to understand the trinity and concept of eternal God.I accidentally committed probably every trinitarian heresy possible and accidentally thought of Mormon theology.However I understood that somethings like trinity cannot be understood with our human nature3
u/blitz24_98 1d ago
When you are little, you’re completely innocent. It’s like when children tell me the name of God is Howard, because of hallowed be thy name.
I’m sure the Lord holds no ill to little ones but enjoys that these little ones are thinking of Him.
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u/No_Shoe_3889 1d ago
Didn't St. Augustine try to figure it out and was told by Christ ( in the form of a child trying to fit the ocean in a hole on the beach) " nope"?
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u/chumley84 1d ago
"The ocean won't fix in that hole" "neither can the Trinity fit inside of your mind"
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u/Ok-Conference-7989 1d ago
It comforts me that we’ll never understand the Trinity. It means there is still mystery, particularly in this world where information is readily accessible.
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u/BigDiscipline6275 Child of Mary 20h ago
Me too.God is such a mysterious being.It also blows my mind how a human could be 100% human and 100% God
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u/nate_rausch 2h ago
I never understood what was so hard about it, can someone explain what I am missing
Imagine a video game maker making a MMORPG (God the father)
Enters the game himself as a character (God the son)
Can affect or play the characters (Holy spirit)
All of these would obviously be the same entity in a broad sense. But the video game maker would not actually be identical to the in-game one, or how he plays the game would not be identical to that character.
See? Its not complicated
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u/aosredrum123 1d ago
It can not be understood, yet if you don't accept it your faith doesn't count and you will be tortured forever xD
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u/KaBar42 1d ago
It can not be understood
There's a lot of things about God that can't be understood. Lazarus was dead for four days, by that point, his body would have already begun to swell, leak bodily fluids from orifices and release noxious gasses as part of the decomposition process. Potentially we would have seen insect activity on his body, as well. Yet when Jesus told him to rise, it was as if he had never been dead to begin with.
Or when Jesus turned water into something it fundamentally wasn't, fermented grape juice, or as it's commonly called, wine.
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u/Equivalent_Nose7012 1d ago
That was Athanasius' position, yes.
However, remember context: he was in the middle of being persecuted by people who flatly rejected the first ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, and warning people who thought they could be Christian and follow Arius, too (or anyone else they decided had a better idea than any teaching of those silly Apostles).
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u/AppalachianViking Armchair Thomist 1d ago
Some people get so mad over this, and some others seek to think it's a slam dunk "GoD nOt rEaL" argument.
It makes perfect sense that we, as limited human beings, couldn't entirely comprehend the intricacies of the Lord, who is beyond all human reckoning.