Trinity (4)

Perhaps the most common difficulty with the Trinity is that the numbers just don’t seem to add up. Certainly, there are those who are content to resolve the difficulty by waving a white flag and surrendering with, "God is a mystery.” Yet while the notion of one God who is three Persons is profoundly mysterious, believing in mystery does not mean believing in something that is unreasonable or illogical. To assert that something is a mystery is to say we don’t have the capacity to ever know it completely. A mystery isn’t something we can’t know anything about; rather it is something we can’t know everything about.  Moreover, God would not mock us by revealing something about Himself from which we could not derive more insights.

In Christ, Ken.

Trinity (3)

God did not have to reveal to us his Trinitarian nature. It’s reasonable to conclude we could be saved without knowing it. However, it is a profound sign of love to want to be known; the revelation of the Trinity is the greatest evidence of God’s love for us apart from Calvary. And since He clearly wants to be known by us, we should respond and make an effort to know Him as he has revealed himself. To understand the doctrine of the Trinity better - to get more light on it as wells as from it - is to know God better.

And while the dogma of the Trinity surpasses human reason, hopefully this series of articles will demonstrate that is does not contradict human reason.

In Christ, Ken.

Trinity (2)

The First Vatican Council taught that while mankind can, by reason alone, come to know God exists, we cannot reason to the conclusion that God is a Trinity of three persons. The doctrine of the Trinity is God’s profoundest secret. If God had not revealed this truth to us, we would still be ignorant of it. Even when He has told us, we may feel that it is altogether beyond us. The tendency is to say “Uhm, OK.” and go on to think about other things. 

But the doctrine of the Trinity gives us significant insights into the innermost life of God and to not think about the Trinity at all seems, well… irresponsible.

In Christ, Ken.