But how can three be God and yet God be one? There is no escaping the fact that the biblical authors assert both truths. Second, the Bible is no less clear that the Father is God, as is the Son, as well as the Holy Spirit. In summary, there is but one God and one God only. "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one" (Deut. That there is but one God is an assertion at the very heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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It is a mystery that transcends reason, in the sense that we cannot exhaustively comprehend it, yet does not violate reason or require that we believe a logical contradiction.ĭoes the doctrine of the Trinity demand that the Christian perform some sort of convoluted spiritual arithmetic? After all, how can 1 + 1 + 1 = 1? To answer this, we must give full weight to three lines of evidence in the Bible.įirst, the Bible is decidedly monotheistic. The concept of the one God as a trinity of co-equal, yet distinct, persons is the most intellectually taxing and baffling doctrine in Scripture.
Try to deny it, and you'll lose your soul!" I agree. Someone once said of the doctrine of the Trinity: "Try to explain it, and you'll lose your mind. "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all" (v. But before we go any further, let's read the text: And from the Spirit, fellowship or communion one with another. On the other hand, there is profound practical encouragement to be gained from what Paul says that our great triune God does for us. The doctrine of God simply cannot be dismissed as theoretical or irrelevant. On the one hand, I cannot (and do not want to) avoid saying something about the triune portrayal of God that Paul provides. We have come to the final verse of this remarkable New Testament epistle, and I am faced with a monumental, two-fold, task.
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