tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4789413143901458666.post6202021720965401728..comments2013-05-07T11:54:26.121-07:00Comments on Welcome To Left Field: The Trinity simplified (somewhat)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05338139888319635632noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4789413143901458666.post-1987615945566995192012-10-06T09:36:56.841-07:002012-10-06T09:36:56.841-07:00Wow, could not have said this better myself. The t...Wow, could not have said this better myself. The thesis that I'll be defending here shortly is based around just this idea. I believe that God did choose to exist as a community, and in this act made Himself the archetype for community. The Trinity, therefore, becomes amodel for how christians should relate to each other. I follow two statements in John "As the Father has loved me so have I loved you;" and "Love one another as I have loved you." This leads to a Trinitarian church, not in structure or polity, but in relationships.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05338139888319635632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4789413143901458666.post-73165314620603460902012-10-06T03:54:43.144-07:002012-10-06T03:54:43.144-07:00Hey Jonathan,
This is a really good explanation o...Hey Jonathan,<br /><br />This is a really good explanation of the origin of concept of Trinity. A few years ago I went through a mental shift that has completely transformed the way I approach theology and my identity as a Christian. Instead of seeing the doctrine of the Trinity as some side belief in the Christian faith, some impossible math problem that was kind of a nuisance but yet necesary to being a Christian, I began to see the doctrine of the Trinity as the fundamental belief of the Christian faith from which everything else we believe flows. The doctrine of the Trinity not only seeks to explain the seeming Biblical contradictions that God is one and that the Father, Son and Spirit are all God, it also points to the most fundamental facet of God's nature-that God is in Himself relationship, and this is what really points to his character as being, above all else, love. And that this is what holiness is about. God's distintiveness as holy is really a distintiveness in Him being love. Furthermore, God doesn't just exist as a relationship, but he wills to be this, he has chosent to exist in relationship.<br /><br />This idenity of God as relationship is the ultimate explantion as to why he has interacteed with us the way he has. He has moved out to us through Christ to be in relationship with us because this is his nature. It also helps to understand the most beautiful truth of the Gospel-that we are brought into the God's relationship by virtue of Christ becoming human and uniting God and humanity in Himself. <br /><br />BenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com