Q: Can someone explain to me the doctrine of the trinity?
A: It's something of a mental framework through which to filter what we find in the Bible. It’s a hedge, something you come to not something you begin with. Ultimately, however, it is more experiential than anything else.
Q: Why are some Christians so attached to it?
A: Perhaps they've never thought much about it. Perhaps it has been hammered into them from childhood and they’ve accepted it without questions.
Perhaps it is the most sensible explanation for the Biblical text.
Perhaps the Church Fathers who struggled for about 300 years or more to put into language what is deeper than words came up with the best explanation of a framework in which to provide a structure that would enable a Church to survive for 2,000 years.
Q: Do you really lose anything by just saying that God is one person, not three persons?
A: How do you understand the term person?
Saturday, February 14, 2009
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