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> > You are correct in saying that Jesus is the son of God. Lynette is also correct in saying that Jesus is God Himself. The concept is called Trinity. It consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are three separate entites, but can also be thought of as one, and can each be correctly referred to as "God."
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> Wouldn't it be better to say that God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit *are* the same entity, and that the different names are just indicative of focusing on different aspects of God at different times? For example, when we want to think about God manifesting himself as a human who died for our sins, we'd refer to him as "Jesus", and when we want to talk about how God is present in all of us, we'd refer to him as "the Holy Spirit".
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> In that sense the Trinity is not a triad of three entities, but a triad of three different but interrelated concepts, all pertaining to the same supreme entity.

That is certainly a very legitimate way of thinking about the Trinity. It is true that the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit are one entity. However, there have been a number of occasions when God refers to Himself as "us." For example:

Gen. 3:22 - "And the LORD God said, 'The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.'"

Gen. 11:7 - "Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

Jesus even prayed to God the Father at Gethsemane prior to his crucifixion, depicted in Matthew 26:36-45, Mark 14 32-41, Luke 22:39-46, and John 17.

So, you see, while the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one, they are also three. The idea is almost completely mind-boggling to a human. Think of the Trinity as a triangle. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are each one side. Together, they form one triangle. In that sense, they are one entity. However, they are, each of them, distinct line segments. In that sense, they can be thought of as three entities. I guess the reason we can think of it both ways is that the three separate entities are so unified in thought that they act as one.

I like to think of the Trinity as three entities in unity. This is similar to how member of the church should come together in unity to make up the body of Christ. So, you see, God set an example for the church through being a Trinity.

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