Paula

If God is truly a Trinity and not three gods as the cults declare, then it follows that it is utterly impossible to pray to one Person of the Trinity without praying to them all, because all Three compose one God. To think otherwise would be as absurd as the popular sarcastic phrase, “Talk to the hand!”

The apostle John wrote that whoever has the Son has the Father as well, and that whoever rejects the Son rejects the Father. Paul wrote that Jesus is the exact representation of the invisible God– not merely of the invisible Father. And note that it took both the Spirit and “the power of the Most High” to conceive Jesus in Mary. Jesus Himself said on various occasions that He would raise himself from the dead, and also that God would raise him. The Persons do various things, but they sometimes overlap, such that it is not scriptural to claim the Father only ever does this while the Son only ever does that, and the Spirit never does either of those things.

Last, it is logically impossible for there to be “roles” among persons of equal being and essence on a permanent basis. Phil. 2:5-11 clearly shows Jesus voluntarily laying his equality aside for a time, then taking it back up again. Hebrews shows God becoming “Father” to the “Son” at a point in time, not from eternity past. Please also see These Articles on a Trinity debate held this past year.

Rest assured as well that none of this talk of “roles” within the Trinity would be heard at all without one goal in mind: justifying permanent, intrinsic male authority over female by arguing for the possibility of equality of being but inequality of permanent role. The ones who wish male preeminence are the ones causing this division.