The Holy Trinity Is Not Just For Non Christians

The Holy Trinity is a difficult thing to understand, much less to explain. This is true not just for non-Christians, but Christians themselves. The best explanation many young Christians get when they are growing up is that God is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are all one, but are different in their own ways (such was the case with my own upbringing in a Catholic household, so I speak from experience). This doesn’t seem to make much sense, especially considering that it is similar to another Holy Mystery that is often brought up: that of Jesus Christ being wholly man and wholly God at the same time. The answers are more often than not unsatisfying, seemingly feeling like placeholders, and this frustration is only†¦show more content†¦Still, this did not satisfy Constantine, as his intention as Emperor was to have a united empire, and this included Christians. Christians were divided on many issues at the time, with many following varying schools of thought that, while similar enough, were different around core ideas. In order to rectify this, Constantine organized the First Ecumenical Council—the First Council of Nicaea—in 325 CE. He had invited nearly 2,000 bishops from all of Christendom to come to Nicaea to see if agreements could be made over old disagreements and unite all of the Christians under one, united Church, with Constantine himself acting as a mediator as much as a host. Many of the issues brought up at this council were of an organizational and structural nature as to how and when and what things should be done how and when and where and so on and so forth: when Easter should be celebrated, prohibition of kneeling on Sundays, baptism of heretics, ordination of eunuchs, etc. The biggest issue, however, was the question of Jesus Christ and His nature, His relationship to God the Father, and whether or not he was â€Å"created† or not. This issue had come to a head between two schools of thought: Alexander of Alexandria believed that God the Father and God the Son were both one and the same and different,