What About the Trinity?

It’s the question nobody can quite answer. It’s a question nobody can quite understand. It seems as if the question doesn’t make much sense at all. How can there be a triune God? How can one God be three persons? As believers, this can be a very challenging task to give an answer in defense of our faith. Sure we can explain away the theory of evolution in a few minutes by showing some simple facts. An explanation of the existence of hell can be laid out in a logical manner. Even showing the Bible to be historically reliable is as easy as pointing out scholarly evidence. Yet, explaining one of the core truths of our faith—the Trinity—can be on the edge of impossible.

What does this have to say about our faith if we can’t even explain one of the central beliefs of our God? I suppose it is similar to the many daily activities we experience throughout our lives. I go to work and use the fax machine nearly everyday, yet I have no idea how it works. When I visit relatives in Florida, I fly on an airplane that I have no clue how it stays in the air. There are many things that we can’t explain but know to be true. We can give examples to help make the Trinity clearer such as an apple with its core and seed. H20 is liquid, solid and gas. The best we can do as believers is simply rely on God’s word being true. Jesus definitely believed He was a person within the triune God. “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.” If Jesus Himself is telling us to believe something, that is all the reason we need to believe it. Jesus’ life was proof the He is God. Creation is proof that the Father is God. Our lives prove that the Holy Spirit is God. We don’t necessarily need to know how the Trinity works. We just need to know that it works.

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