Fairy Tale Spotlight: A Trinity of Personalities

A common misunderstanding many Christians have about the Holy Trinity is that all three of them are all the same person in different forms. If that were true, there would hardly be a point to even handing off the number 3 at all. It would just be one fellow doing all the things that God does. But no, God is not just one person. There are three people up there, and they are extremely different from one another.

But hold on there, T.K.! If God really is three completely distinct individuals, does that mean that Christianity is not monotheistic after all? That is a good question and one that has me banging my head against the wall quite often. But here is the best way to look at it: Three individuals locked into a single agenda. In that sense, 3 becomes 1 and 1 inevitably is still 3. So yes... The Trinity is one thing in the sense that they are all working towards the same ultimate goal--that goal being the promotion of the human race and a rather small, insignificant matter of dealing with a rouge angel that was really no threat to begin with.

I do find it important, however, that you all have a complete understanding of who these three completely separate individuals are. I'll give it to you in brief and then follow it up with three other entirely separate blogs all dealing with who these deities really are. Let's list them out, shall we?

1. God the Father

Something akin to someone's crazy old grandpa who, even at one hundred and two, still persists that he is perfectly capable of doing all the physically magical things that all the young people are doing. And where that may be true, one might argue that he shouldn't. If you've ever come across an elderly fellow driving in the wrong lane while countless people swerve away from him to avoid a head-on collision, then you may know where I am coming from.

God the Father has everything stacked in his favor too. If he does hit you with his car, he'll be just fine while you're flatter than the flattest pancake. He is extremely impulsive, refuses to listen to anyone (unless he develops a fondness for them), and he is about as rude, crude, and ridiculous as he can be. All by human standards, mind you. But hey! I would argue that's what makes him so endearing!

2. God the Holy Spirit

This fellow isn't usually mentioned secondly, but my train of thought usually flows to him next. Even if the other order is more correct, I always found Jesus to be the last one in line, waiting his turn. So let's just pay the old Holy Ghost a visit first.

If you want to know what order is, have a look at the Holy Spirit. He has a particular thing he likes. He won't be persuaded otherwise. He also has a routine that cannot be broken, and he shan't be shamed for any of it!

The Holy Spirit values absolutism in all things. If something is not absolute, he dislikes it very much. He has a stick much longer than a mile up in his ass, and nobody should dare pull it out. This stick was there since the beginning of eternity, and that probably means it is intended to stay there.

He also dislikes you. He just does. No, flowers won't help you here. Just go home and give up on it.

But what the Holy Spirit lacks in charisma, he makes up for it in compassion and friendship. If he aligns with someone, he will do everything in his power to uplift that person even to his own detriment. He will never forsake someone in need, but really... he'd rather you just die... or simply cease existing. It would just be easier that way... for all parties involved really.

3. God the Son

Jesus! You know him. He's pretty much the pinnacle of the Bible. Everything rather landed on his shoulders there at the end. With Jesus, we find a magical balance between the OCD of the Holy Spirit and the impulsiveness of the Father. Yet he borrows all the good qualities from both.

Jesus really is stoicism in its purest form. There is both a strength and calmness to him happening all at once. He is manly and forthright in his dealings with others. It is easy to feel safe around him at all times--something amiss from the other two parts of the Trinity. A strong man who is calm in spirit with the will to put himself out there and make things happen is much similar to Jesus.

Spoiler alert: I'm nothing like him. I tend to lean closer to Daddy.

Come back in the coming weeks and I'll go more in depth about who these people are. Yes, it will all be a bit of a rehash, but I just want to be clear on all fronts. Besides... who else bothers to talk about stuff like this?

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