The Trinity, God (Elohim)

Mankind has always had difficulty understanding how God can be a Trinity and one simultaneously, thus, it has been challenging to describe it with any solid conviction. While it can be interpreted that they are separate, they are indeed not. I have heard a few attempts to explain the Trinity, such as: "God is one like H2O: one element that has three different forms; steam, ice, and liquid," and "God is like a pie or cake divided into three pieces; all the pieces are the same pie but three parts." And while these descriptions may be used as examples, they fail to describe the divine Trinity of God.

     We must understand the Trinity of God to understand who we are as human beings created in His image. How can we know man's image if we do not know the image of God? Is man a mere body with a life force? Is God only a Spirit wandering around the heavens? No!

     When I Am Who I Am created "the heavens and the earth," He did something significant that we cannot fully comprehend. He who is timeless made a "beginning!" Let that rest on your mind for a moment! He who is timeless created a "beginning!" A starting point for His Creation of the heavens and the earth. The beginning of our time as we understand it to be. Scripture does not read that the first thing He created was the heavens and the earth; instead, it reads, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  He made the beginning first! Time! We know this because Genesis 1:3-5 reads,

“Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening and there was morning, one day.”

     Before that new beginning, He knew that He would present Himself in a way He could be intimate with all that would be created. Thus, before starting this new beginning, His expression through the Trinity of God was already in existence. And therefore, the Trinity of God was present at the birth of creation. it is understandable that first, I Am, Who I Am decided to create what we know as "the heavens and the earth." Then I Am, Who I Am presented Himself as The Trinity, with whom He would express who He is to all that He was going to create. He then made a beginning and began to create the heavens and earth He had planned.

     We do not read the word "Trinity" in scripture; however, the term is used to describe the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Hebrew word Elohim is translated into God used in Genesis 1:1. It is a plural form of God, not a singular. The writer did not use the word Gods to infer that there are multiple gods, but rather God (Elohim) to describe a singular God in plural form.

     I Am Who I Am did not divide Himself into three persons with degrees of who He is. For lack of a better example, the Father is not fifty percent, the Son thirty percent, and the Holy Spirit twenty percent. Impossible! The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one hundred percent I Am Who I Am: They are not separate from one another; rather, they are one another. What makes them different is their expression to us, as He has always existed and will always exist. I Am Who I Am wants us to see Him as our Father and wants us to experience His presence and teachings through His Holy Spirit. Through His Son Jesus, He wants to walk and live among us and let us look into His eyes and feel His hands. We can never bypass the Trinity in our relationship with I Am Who I Am.  He is the Trinity, and the Trinity is Him. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are His complete expression to all His creation and most importantly mankind.

     Together, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit created the heavens and the earth because they are I Am Who I Am. One God! It is taught in the Christian belief system that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have always existed. This is true, but not because they were expressed by, I Am Who I Am as a Trinity before He decided to create the heavens and the earth, but because they are I Am Who I Am. They are not three separate parts of I Am Who I Am, but instead, I Am Who I Am presenting Himself through the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!

     Why would I Am Who I Am want to express Himself through the Trinity, not just as God (Yahweh)? To find and understand the answer to the question, we must look at creation itself, for only when we know His design can we understand why God chose to express Himself through the Trinity.

     He knew what and who He was going to create in the heavens and the earth and what human beings would be like. He knew humans' distinction among all created life: those living in the heavens and those residing on earth. He knew mankind would be made from and live on the dust of the earth. He knew how humans would multiply. Humans would produce humans and thus have human fathers and mothers. He knew we would have brothers and sisters and extended families. He knew this before the foundations of the earth. So, before He created what we know as the heavens and the earth, He chose to express Himself as God, the Trinity.

     Therefore, before time began as we know it, He knew He would create the heavens and earth and all the life it contained, and He would have an intimate relationship with it all! He would make Adam and be his Father and thus be the Father of all mankind. He knew that mankind would multiply on the earth and populate it. I Am Who I Am knew that through the Holy Spirit, His presence would be felt in us. And He would teach us about Himself through the connection of His Spirit to the spirit contained within every living man and woman. Before planting the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden and instructing Adam not to eat the fruit of it, I Am Who I Am knew Adam would disobey His instructions. Thus, He knew that Adam would corrupt all life by disobeying his Creator and Father. So I Am Who I Am would come to earth as the Son of God and a son of man and show how much He loves us and would allow the ones He created to kill the body of their Creator. He demonstrated His unfailing love to us and showed us how far we should go to demonstrate our love for our fellow man. God Himself became a Savior to live amongst men as a man Himself.

     We read that mankind would be created in His image in Genesis 1:26–27,

 “Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.” So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

  Just as I Am, Who I Am" would be a Trinity through the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the Son, so man would be a trinity through the spirit, soul, and body.  Thus, the expression of I Am Who I Am is revealed to us as God the Trinity when he says, “Let Us make man in our own image.”

     Many believe that "He is the good Lord above" or "there is a God or life force." However, the story of God, I Am Who I Am, who always existed and always will exist, as our Father, our teacher, and our Savior, is beyond any description of beauty, love, and wonder.