sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Read the Nicene Creed.
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Christians Only: Explaining the Trinity
- Thread starter David1967
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I have read it. To be clear, I am not anti - Trinity. But the concept is a bit confusing within a monotheistic religion.
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
I think that’s because we tend to anthropomorphize God, that is, we tend to conceptualize God “like us.” And, since we are each individuals, each with our own physical body, it’s really difficult for us to think of our congregations and families as organic wholes — “things” in and of themselves, of which each of us is an integral part.
It makes sense to me to think of it as “God expressed in community.” Three Persons, each one fully God, and all three together fully God. It’s hard for us to imagine God like that, because we’re not like that. The Trinity is something we have to hold very gently, very loosely. We have to realize that it, largely, is a metaphor, and metaphors can’t be sharply defined — just as the Trinity cannot be sharply defined. If we try, we only end up overthinking, and the essence of the metaphor is lost.