The Holy Trinity concept does not make sense to me. I guess I am low IQ loser....
Not understanding the Trinity doesn't make you low IQ.
The Trinity was trying to understand how there could be One God and yet Jesus being God at the same time as the Father being God and God's spirit being God. Three distinct personas yet one God.
And at the same time how could Jesus be God (which He said He was; He accepted people worshiping Him; and He did things only God can do (forgiving sins)) and yet also be Man.
Me either. He wouldn't be ascending to the same person. Nor would the scriptural account of his baptism where the Holy Spirit descends in the form of a dove and his father's voice from heaven announcing approval make sense if they were all the same person. But you an I are heretics and not in fashion these days. Or so I am told.
. . . and I’ll add that my reading of that verse is that he had not yet ascended to his father God to complete the resurrection process so he didn’t want to freak Mary out by touching a spirit.
**The Holy Trinity concept does not make sense to me. I guess I am low IQ loser....**
Listen to any number of trinitarian vs modalist debates, and notice that both avoid certain verses; and there are verses both use to arrive at a different outcome. And there are many verses and passages that both completely agree on.
It is best to push ideas out of our heads and just believe the Word as it is written.
It’s essence is impenetrable. It’s a flat out mystery. Don’t be too tough on yourself. You have ton of company. The question us whether you can believe the teaching without completely understanding it—i.e., take it on faith.