Just as many bloggers discussed the tragedy of the Virginia Tech massacre. I'm sure many are now querying why God would let something like this happen. This is a question that is asked every time some tragedy occurs.
What I am having a problem with is the the trinity of the God head. Jehovah is pretty much a vindictive and jealous god the commandment his tribe not to commit murder, yet a few chapters later he commanded the Israelites to wipe out the Canaanites. Jehovah God ostensibly is the creator God that brought the earth into existence, but was a bit of a bastard according to the Old Testament. So could it be that Jehovah God let this tragedy happen to whip into shape the Christians into obedience. If they do not obey his commandments retribution and punishment will be wrought upon some innocence to teach the remaining Christians a lessons.
Then there is Jesus the Son of Jehovah God whose New Testament was in polar opposite of God the Father. Jesus was about sacrifice and forgiveness. Is there some connection between God the Father's massacre and the concept of Jesus' sacrifice? It seems in polar opposites of what the testaments and messages meant, but perhaps there is some celestial meaning behind all this.
I'm really having trouble with trinitarianism, especially when it comes to the Holy Ghost. If it was God the Fathers plan to coordinate with Jesus to teach mankind a lesson of sacrifice and obedience was it the Holy Ghost the put into the mind of the assassin to execute the massacre. If this was a plan of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Ghost perhaps there was some lesson behind all this. But if this is the case what a harsh lesson to be taught.
Somebody, please enlighten me on trinitariansim. I know the Pentecost was the first occurrence of the Holy Ghost, but it seems to me there are three separate entities and perhaps they all have different agendas. Is Christianity really a monotheistic religion?
Bless the students at Virginia Tech, be it God, Gabrielle or Raphael.
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Hi Victor,
My 2 cents worth.
The way I look at the trinity is to look at an egg. The egg has 3 parts, the yolk, the white, and the shell. But, they are all together one egg, at the same time. If you read the Old Testament, you can see that the Holy Spirit was active then too, just in a different way. Before Jesus, God selected individuals through which he wanted to do his work and gave them his Spirit. You can see this at work in King Saul in 1 Samuel, where you see what happens to a man when God gives the Spirit, and then what happens when that man goes bad, and God withdraws his Spirit.
But, because of Jesus' sacrificial death and ressurection, the Holy Spirit has been made available to all who believe. In fact, Paul says that when we put our faith in Christ, we are "sealed"(Ephesians 4:30) with the Holy Spirit. I like to think of it like a stamp, or brand of ownership. But then as the believer connects on another level, there is an activation of that Holy Spirit and a release of spiritual gifting specific to the individual.
That is how I look at it.
Also, the Bible, or the Story of the Ages, is meant to be viewed as a whole. It represents the Plan for the Ages. The God of the Old Testament is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Its just that he set a plan in motion for the redemption of all humanity way back after the fall in the garden of Eden, and Satan didn't play fair, both in the incident in the garden, and later also, in his interference in human affairs. So, for God to accomplish the overall plan, drastic measures had to occur at times. We don't totally understand it because we don't share God's eternal, outside our four dimensions thinking.
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