Isn't it unjust to let someone suffer for the sins others did? It is not our fault that Adam sinned so why are we guilty of it? What is the relationship between god and Isa? Why is the holy spirit included in the trinity?
Answer:
Let me answer your questions one by one. Many persons suffering the consequences of one person's act of sin seems like injustice in our eyes. But we see it in our day to day life all the time. The very nature of sin is destructive and therefore because of one person's sin many do end up paying the price. When a husband is an alcoholic the wife and the children suffer because of it. When one terrorist gets brainwashed with false teachings many people die. A drunkard riding a car rashly ends up killing an innocent mother. Such instances in day to day life tells us that when one person commits a serious sin it is inevitable to prevent the consequences of that sin from affecting others.
Adam was a representative of the entire human race and therefore his act of disobedience affected the whole human race. On the other hand Jesus Christ also became a human being and paid for the sins of the entire human race so that all of us can receive the benefit of His act of obedience.
I assume by Isa you mean Jesus Christ. This will help me to answer your second and third question together. The Bible presents God as a triune person. God is one but He has revealed Himself in the form of three distinct persons - Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. All three of them are part of the Godhead and are equal to each other and same in essence. But they are distinct in personality. Jesus Christ is God and so is the Holy Spirit. It is not that we have included them in the Trinity. Our Triune God has always existed from everlasting to everlasting in this manner. While the Christian faith is Theistic (belief in one God) but yet we believe in the Trinity. Our One God has revealed Himself in three persons.
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Greetings Ashwin
With all due respect,
the Bible does not present GOD as a triune person.
But rather presents Him as ONE Person!
Deut 6.4
The Jews have understood this for centuries. And Jesus Christ, our Lord and Master, is a Jew.
And he confirmed & affirmed this unitary monotheism before a Jewish scribe in
Mark 12:28-32.
Note the scribe's response:
(Mark 12:32) And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
Obviously then, neither Jesus nor the scribe believed their GOD was triune!?!
Jesus of Nazareth, therefore, is the Messiah, the Son of the ONE GOD.
[Matt 16.16]
Jesus, clearly identified his Father, as the only true GOD!
[John 17.3]
Jesus therefore, is the Son of the Father.
[2 John 3]
Before, he ascended, Jesus sent word to his disciples:
(John 20:17) ... go to my brethren, and say unto them,
I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
So Jesus was to ascend to the Father, who is not only the GOD and Father of his disciples, but also, the GOD and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
[2 Cor 11.31, Eph 1.3, Col 1.3, 1 Pet 1.3]
Right now, Jesus Christ is in Heaven at the right hand of the ONE GOD.
When John was recording the book of Revelation; the ascended Jesus declared to him:
(Rev 3:12) Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Jesus Christ clearly then has a GOD above him and there can only be ONE GOD!!
Therefore, the ONE GOD, is the Father, as Paul & the early church concurred:
(1 Cor 8:4) ... that there is none other God but one.
(1 Cor 8:6) But to us there is but one God, the Father, ...
Paul & the early church believed their GOD to be ONE Person, that is, the Father.
Therefore, Ashwin,
For more info on this wondrous subject,
I recommend this video:
The Human Jesus
Take a couple of hours to watch it; and prayerfully it will aid you in your quest for truth.
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