Mystery of the Holy Trinity explained entirely using free will & conscience & in just 8 pages

 Author: Eulalio Eguia Jr.

Abstract: Whatever analogy one uses to explain the Holy Trinity, it should be able to explain that while the Son is God, the Son was also begotten by the Father and that the Father is greater than the Son. And to make it more complicated, it  should also explain why sin or blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable while sin or blasphemy against the Father or the Son is forgivable.


All the analogies I have read or heard about the Holy Trinity failed to do this, and they all end up by saying that the mystery is unfathomable and unrelatable to humans. So let me now introduce to you what I believe will completely explain the mystery of the Holy Trinity in a way humans can understand.


This is the transcript to my Youtube video with the same title.



The Holy Trinity is a Christian doctrine concerning the nature of God, which defines one God existing in three distinct divine persons, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Many theologians have tried to explain this mystery using analogies that are relatable to human experience, but none, in my humble opinion, were able to harmonize several scriptures about the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These scriptures are the following:


John 1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.


John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son…

  

John 14:28 “The Father is greater than I”


Matthew 12: 31-32 … every sin or blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven him, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or the age to come.


Gospel of Thomas saying 44: Jesus said: He who blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and he who blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven, but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in earth or in heaven.


Whatever analogy one uses to explain the Holy Trinity, it should be able to explain that while the Son is God, the Son was also begotten by the Father and that the Father is greater than the Son. And to make it more complicated, it  should also explain why sin or blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable while sin or blasphemy against the Father or the Son is forgivable.


All the analogies I have read or heard about the Holy Trinity failed to do this, and they all end up by saying that the mystery is unfathomable and unrelatable to humans. So let me now introduce to you what I believe will completely explain the mystery of the Holy Trinity in a way humans can understand.


Every human has free will and conscience, and both are faculties of the same mind, the same person. The conscience is initiated as soon as a person starts to formulate a course of action dictated by his free will. This conscience tends to give a person an alternative course of action, that will either: completely stop the person from pursuing his free will, or make an action entirely opposite from his intended action, or pursue a mellowed down version of his intended action.


For example, a person sees a piece of cake, and the person immediately has the desire to eat that cake even though he is diabetic. Immediately his conscience starts to tell him, this is unhealthy for him, so the person either: ignores the cake totally, or chooses to eat healthier food instead, or perhaps, makes a compromise by eating only a small portion of the cake.


Now the person’s free will and his conscience are telling him two different courses of actions, and yet both free will and conscience are faculties of the same mind, coming from the same person. Now I would like to compare the Father with the free will, and the Son to the conscience. But why would an Almighty God need to have a conscience or a contrasting voice in his mind? In my opinion, it is exactly because the Father is Almighty that he needs an inner voice to put a brake on what he can do. An unbridled free will capable of doing anything could lead to excess, and an independent conscience will help moderate his infinite power.


Now just like the conscience is triggered whenever a free will is made, so is the Son begotten by the Father as soon as the Father decided to act according to the Father’s free will. I believe the Son was begotten by the Father in that moment in the far distant past when the Father decided to start creating as dictated by the Father’s free will.


And because the Father begets the Son, and the Father becomes the initiator while the Son becomes the reactor, it is in this sense that the Father is greater than the Son. As the reactor to what the Father wills, the Son can only either agree to what the Father wants or suggest an alternative to what the Father wants. Thus, the Son cannot initiate anything on his own:


John 5:19-20 The Son can do nothing by himself; he can only do what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does, the Son also does. 


Thus during creation, the Son acted as counselor to the Father on how each creation should be designed and made. And it is when the Father and the Son come to agreement with each other on how each action in the universe should be done, is also only the time when the Holy Spirit is sent to carry out that action. Thus the Holy Spirit represents the meeting of the minds of both the Father and the Son. Because of this, when a Christian receives the Holy Spirit, that Christian is receiving not just the Spirit of the Father, but the Spirit of both the Father and the Son:


John 14: 23 Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.


This also explains why sin or blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable, while the sin or blasphemy against either the Father or the Son is not. If you sin against the Son, and the Father wants to punish you immediately, the Son can intercede for you like what Christ did on the cross asking God to forgive those who impaled him for “they know not what they do”. And if you sin against the Father, again, the Son can intercede for you reminding the Father that he was sent as sin offering for the forgiveness of the world. But, if you sin against the Holy Spirit which represents the meeting of the minds of both the Father and the Son, then who is there to intercede for you? Neither the Father nor the Son will forgive you.


One good example of sinning against the Holy Spirit is the case of the Persian king Cyrus whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit to liberate the exiled Israelites, and to rebuild the Temple - see Isaiah 45. King Belshazzar of Babylon resisted the anointed Cyrus and thus sinned against the Holy Spirit, and was therefore immediately judged by God - see Daniel 5.


Now does the Bible say anything about God having a counsellor, or someone acting like his conscience giving him an alternative course of action different from his original free will? We see many cases in the Bible where God listened to someone else before making his final judgment: Genesis 18 where Abraham bargained with God in order to spare Sodom and Gomorrah, Exodus 32 where Moses pleads God to spare Israel after they worshipped the golden calf, and of course Luke 23 where Christ asked the Father to forgive those who impaled him “for they know not what they do”.


Isaiah 40: 13-14 asks this question: Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or who instructs the lord as his counselor?


Isaiah 9:6 answers this very question: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.


The child whom Isaiah referred to is of course the Son, whom Isaiah said will also be called Everlasting Father in the future when the Father finally allows the Son to initiate actions according to the Son’s free will, and no longer have to wait for the Father’s free will before the Son can react. And yes, Isaiah also emphasized the Son’s role as Wonderful Counselor to the Father. After all, the Son can only act as counselor or adviser to someone greater than the Son, and not someone lesser than the Son. 


(Remember, a superior gives orders to inferiors, not advice, although a superior can ask advice or counsel from an inferior before making a final command to his inferiors). And the only one greater than the Son is the Father.


Paul also suggests that the mind of the Son fathoms or understands the mind of the Father, and therefore can act as counselor to the Father. And because the mind of Christ dwells in Christians, they in turn can also fathom the mind of the Father and the Holy Spirit:


1 Corinthians 2: 14-16 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him,and they are not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.


The Son, from the beginning, has served as counselor to the Father, but Isaiah said that the Son will become a Wonderful Counselor to the father when he is born as a human child. This is because while the Son understands the divine mind of the Father since the Son shares the Father’s divinity, the Son was able to experientially understand the mind of Man only after the divine Son became flesh.  And while the Father technically knows the mind of Man since he created Man, the Father does not know Man in the same level that the incarnated Son knows mankind. And because of this the incarnated Son became an invaluable and Wonderful Counselor to the Father.

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