Redefining The Trinity

It is true that I am a de jure Catholic, but I am not completely Catholic de facto, as I also know my own deductions. As I continue to wonder at the nature of existence and the divine, I had an urge to leave religion, but I know, Christianity is somewhat special. Unlike its fellow abrahamic religions which is quite ethnic central and strict in rules, Christianity is different. While seemingly ethnic, it isn’t, the values espoused are seemingly very universal values. It is still somewhat hard on tradition, as for masses and scripted prayers and sacraments and so on. However, I’ve always thought that very little of Christianity should be taken literally. Especially things such as the doctrine of Eucharist as the Body of Christ, Mariology, Trinity, and the whole Jesus doctrine, which makes the religion so focused on the identity of Jesus, I believe are all metaphors that teaches us many other values. Even Jesus teaches in metaphors, heavily. So let’s begin, shall we?

For now, I’ll just discuss the Holy Trinity first, as that seems pretty important, and I was inspired to write about the Trinity first because when I usually pray, I still make the sign of the Cross, but being me, I am disturbed that I am doing something that I have no idea what it means, so I decided to open my analysis of Christianity with this, the Trinity. I’ll just dive straight in, as this isn’t a truely formalized essay, since I’m tired of making those well organized and structured essays as it doesn’t seem to be needed as of now, I’ll just make sure that it gets written first. Structure can come later. Anyway, in Catholicism, God is portrayed as a Trinity. That is God is one in nature but three in person, basically God has 3 personalities or identities. Basically, God is divided into the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This doctrine at first glance sounds logical as God should be able to have multiple identities, since God is infinite and all encompassing. Now, it’s better if we disect each identities first.

The Father in this doctrine simply refers to God as a Creator and as the Father of all. That seems logical enough. The Son here traditionally refers to Jesus Christ, which is described as the Son of God. The actual role of the Son here is to be argued, but the Son comes from the Father. In the Gospel, the Son is sent by the Father to save all of mankind, and to sacrifice Himself for mankind. If we simply look at Jesus’ role in this, He acts more of a teacher and a preacher. As most of the things He did is teach, even miracles are to help deliver His messages. As we have seen that He doesn’t use miracles to simply help, there are meanings behind His actions. In fact, His entire life seems to be dedicated to delivering very specific messages. And then there’s the Holy Spirit, which is described by Jesus as a companion to be sent by Him after He left. The role of the Holy Spirit is quite self explanatory, and thus I won’t explain any further.

The problem of most Christians is they take that concept of the Trinity very literally, which is why Christians pray to literally 3 identities of the same being. This is in fact, quite odd, as what obliges God to follow this specific criteria? Especially with Jesus as the Son and making the Son as the center of the worship. Perhaps, there’s something else behind this concept, let’s try to expose the true meaning of this sacred mystery. You see, the Trinity simply refers to the 3 forms or natures of God, and not identity or Person. Father here refers to God’s role as a central controller of the universe and also the source of all, this is shown by the physical laws that dictate the mechanism of this universe. Simply put, God the Father is the controller of the universe and also the creator of all, this side of God is mechanical and directly interferes with the world, other manifestations of this is also the result of random events. The Holy Spirit merely refers to God as a companion, a friend that’s always there by our side. As someone that loves us unconditionally and wants the best for us. As a result, the Holy Spirit and the Father is usually combined into one. The Son however, is much harder to decipher, but let’s see what we can do.

I can’t provide much evidence, other than verses from the Gospel, furthermore this is just my interpretation. This part can be elaborated even further, but I’ll make it short for the sake of explaining the Trinity. In my humble opinion, when Christians label the Son as Jesus, Jesus never meant Himself as the Son, but someone else. And my hypothesis is that the person, or people Jesus is referring to is everyone else. Or specifically humanity, this makes sense, as we have ascertained that everyone is just different iterations of the same consciousness, each iteration is affected by the physical laws and comes as a result of those laws, meaning they come from the Father. Jesus presses on this as He always refers to Himself as the Son of Man, meaning that He too is human. What about when He said that we can only go through Him to reach the Father as in John 8:19 and John 14:6? What He means is that we must know about ourselves if we want to know of God. As we are God in itself. We can not learn about God without learning about ourselves as well, as we are the closest representation of God. And that is what Jesus meant.

This is just the first of my analysis of Christianity, and there’s much more to explain, especially about Jesus and who He is. That’s all for now.