We are engaged in a brief consideration of the Trinity. Some outside the Christian faith reject it because they consider the triune nature of God illogical or even heretical. We respond by saying the infinite, eternal God functions on a level of logic that transcends the level of the human. Perhaps the composition of God’s very being is chiefest among the differences that separate the Creator from His creatures. And, it is also true, we admitted, that there is no clear passage of Scripture that expresses God as One, yet subsisting in three Persons. However, there are numerous passages that declare the Oneness of God, and many that also declare the deity of the Spirit of God as well as the deity of the Son of God. These cannot be ignored. In putting the several references together with the claims each make as to God’s Oneness, plus the Father being God, the Son being God, and the Spirit being God, what possible conclusion could be reached other than that of the Trinity? One God, subsisting in three distinct Persons. We who embrace the Trinitarian concept of God’s being do not do so because it seems perfectly logical to us, but because the revelation God has given leaves no other choice. I can assure you of this: The Trinity is not a concept contrived by humans. Humans never would have thought of it. And, if they had, they would not have dared to put it forth because of its seeming impossibility.
Mere humans would have contrived something much easier to accept and propagate than the Trinity, but there it is, an object of reality rooted in divine revelation. This is way historic Christianity has always embraced the Trinitarian concept of God. It is what God has clearly and consistently revealed about Himself, one God subsisting in three equal Persons: a Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
And these three Persons are not to be confused but are distinct. The Son is not the Father, and the Father is not the Spirit. The Spirit is not the Son. Each has a distinct personhood while yet comprising the one God. And, no, each is not one-third God with the three comprising the whole. Each is fully God in His own right. Each is coequal and co-eternal with the others. Surely, if this be so, if this is an apt description of the Trinity, it must stand completely alone and all the universe. But, then, that God’s constitution being all by itself in the universe, is that not what we should expect of the Creator? Each of us mortals possesses a body, a spirit, and a soul. We are comprised of three components, yet, there is a oneness about the being of each of us that no one disputes. However, truth be told, we don’t come close to understanding the very makeup of ourselves, and, yet, some feel fully qualified to say what God can and cannot be. Unbridled arrogance, to be sure.
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