Personal Narrative: The Son And The Holy Spirit

I remember when I was little I used to say the trinitarian formula before and after every prayer I said, before meals, before bed, when I woke up, I would end up saying “In the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit…” about 12 times in a day. Now despite this relentless repetition I didn’t really understand exactly what I was saying. It was only until I was in about 8th grade when I began to understand the doctrine behind the Holy Trinity. Along with this initial understanding, I have gained a new knowledge of it in this class. We’ve learned that the three persons posses one nature which is God. The persons, The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit all coexist, and were never really created for they simply exist, yet are said to have …show more content…
There was a time after Adam disobeyed the will of God, when man was in discord with God. During this time there were many people who were not able, and will never be able to be truly saved. These people are stuck in a sort of philosophical limbo in which they never truly get to see the fullness of God’s intellect, but also are not stuck in eternal suffering. An interesting example of this is the great writer, Virgil, who died around 19 BC, and wrote the legendary tale “Dante’s Inferno”. He is believed to have been a good christian who pondered many of the mysteries of the faith and truly delved deeper into the knowledge of God more the majority of people in his time. And it was because of this adherence to the faith that he is in this sort of middle or neutral ground between salvation and hell. This is a great illustration of how God on earth is the key to the salvation of man, yet since God is purely spiritual he had to use the holy spirit to fecundate the Son of God in Mary herself, in order to bring such a powerful being into the physical world, thus saving mankind from their fallen