The way I think of it is this: We were created in God's image. God is three separate being in one, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We have a mind, body, and soul. They are three distinc things that when working properly are in unison. But, they can be away from eachother (when you die for instance), and they can be subject to one another. How many times do you do something stupid because its what your body wanted at the time? Thankfully, God (all three persons of God) are perfect and in union at all times so we don't have to worry about them conflicting eachother.

This passage is one of many taken into account when the doctrine of the Trinity was formulated. Since God, who is not "made of" anything, is "made of" spirit, we can't pretend to understand it, just to formulate it. Within one overarching Being called God there are three persons--not just personalities--and they are in definite relationships to each other. Someone may be in completely voluntary subjection to someone else. We don't have to understand God to believe in him, any more than we have to understand DNA to know that that's where we all came from.

God is a corporate entity eternally existing in 3 distinctly different persons: The Father - The Word - The Holy Spirit. 1st John 5:7 Each one by Himself incorporates the fullness of all 3 together. This means that each one has ALL the power of all 3 together and shares in the same divine nature making each one God all by himself. In order to become the Savior of mankind, God The Word decided to become human so that He could die to pay the price for the redemption of humanity. The ONLY legal way He could enter the physical realm and live and die on earth as human being was to be born of a human woman through the natural way. So, about 2,000 years ago God The Father miraculously fertilized the Ovum of a virgin human female named Mary making her pregnant with His Seed. This Seed was actually God The Word who entered into the body of that Child and literally became a Human Being called Jesus (which simply means Savior). But because of WHO He was and HOW he was conceived His nature became two-fold, both Human (from His Mother) and Divine (from His Father). Therefore, He could live and interact fully as a human being having all the normal human experiences yet still remain completely sinless because of His divine nature. This is the reason why this being, Jesus Christ, who is totally God in every way could also submit Himself to God The Father as a human being without any controversy whatsoever.

God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost are all One God in Three Divine Persons. The Father and Jesus are two distinct personalities but One Supreme Being. Please read Hebrews 1:8 and you shall see that Jesus the Son is called God by God the Father. I hope that this is helpful. -In the Master's service. Thank you and God bless you!

Jesus and God are the same. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word is God". Jesus is the word(He brought forth the gospel message to the world that through Him, we might be saved from hell's fire.

That and many other verses from scriptures prove that Jesus is not the same as God. If a Christian can clearly state that God is three persons, and identify the three persons that together constitute God why did God not do so Himself in the OT? He had plenty of opportunity, as the OT has more books than and covers a much longer time span than the NT. The Holy Qur’an which came a few centuries later puts the record straight regarding the unadulterated oneness of God as taught by the OT. Why ignore previous scripture and introduce a deviation that was not taught by Jesus and is very difficult to explain.

Mal 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. God is immutable and will never change. He does not have subordinates within himself. A Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonedes had trouble with the christian God because of the trinity. He agreed that the Quran described God essentially the same as the Jewish God. Therein lies the problem. As a oneness pentecostal we see in the early church Philip Schaff has shown in the history of christianity that most bishops and overseers were modalistic. This is in complete keeping with the Monotheism of God. He never changed. He became flesh to reveal himself more fully and to redeem mankind back from sin. Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. This body that God prepared for himself was born of the egg of a woman and the seed of God therefore sinless. This is the dual nature of God, completely human and completely God. We do not say that God Changed when he manifested himslef in theophanies in Old Testament times. Nor do we say God changed when he showed himself in the form of a burning bush, pillar of fire, cloud, shekinah glory. These were only visible manifestations of God wanting to reveal himself. A childis born from woman, a son is given from God. God is spirit so when he overshadows Mary it is the Holy Ghost. If not then who is the real father. Mat 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. But Jesus is different He was not only Son of God, he was also son of man. Everything God could do Jesus could do. All that humans needed he also needed, a mother to feed him hunger, learn to walk, tired & needed sleep, felt every emotion. Though infinite he limited himself to place, Though omniscient he learned, though omnipotent he wearied. So if Jesus was to have given up all his attributes to become a man then God would not be immutable. God continued to exist outside of Jesus, yet he was inside of him. One day when all things are fulfilled then redemtion will no longer be necessary. Jesus as man will have fulfilled his mediatorial role then we won't need know God through Jesus for we shall be like him and see him just as he is. When the other manifestations were no longer necessary he continued to be God though those manifestations were no longer needed. It was only for the purpose of revealing himself for that time. He is eternal and dwells outside of time. Joh 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Trinity. "The Christian doctrine of the Trinity teaches the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead. The doctrine states that God is the Triune God, existing as three persons, or in the Greek hypostases, but one being. Each of the persons is understood as having the one identical essence or nature, not merely similar natures. Since the beginning of the third century the doctrine of the Trinity has been stated as "the one God exists in three Persons and one substance, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." Trinitarianism, belief in the Trinity, is a mark of Oriental and Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism and all the mainstream traditions arising from the Protestant Reformation, such as Anglicanism, Lutheranism and Presbyterianism. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church describes the Trinity as "the central dogma of Christian theology". This doctrine is in contrast to Nontrinitarian positions which include Binitarianism (one deity/two persons), Unitarianism (one deity/one person), the Oneness belief held by certain Pentecostal groups, Modalism, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' view of the Godhead as three separate beings who are one in purpose rather than essence." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity

I was always taught that god was the father and jesus was the son of god, or god, jr. Actually he was only a half-god, or demi-god.

Jesus became a human...yet hes the son of God. God and Jesus are the same...they share the same beliefs and wont budge on them, cuz its the way it is... but he is still subject for he was a man.