Now let me very briefly touch on another point you mentioned and that is causing confusion even among some Christians, the so-called ‘trinity’ of God. You could not have touched on a topic more difficult to comprehend. To understand this divine concept is equal to the attempt to understand who God Himself is. Let me say categorically that Christians are decidedly monotheists! We believe in one God, as our Bible teaches:
“The Lord our God is one Lord”. (Deuteronomy 6:4).
“I am the Lord your God . . . Thou shalt have no other gods before me”. (Exodus 20:2, 3).
“There is . . . one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all”. (Ephesians 4:4 – 6).
Both the Old and the New Testament are unanimous on this.
Allow me to simplify a complex concept: I am one person, and yet I am made up of three ‘components’: my body, my soul and my spirit. So I am actually a unity of three, i.e. a trinity. Visible is only my body. I am not I without my body, neither without my soul or spirit. Let me reverently try to use this metaphor on the person of God. The Bible speaks of God as the Creator, the Father. That needs little explanation.
But then it also speaks of God becoming incarnated in human form:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
“The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God — children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1: 1 – 5; 9 – 14)
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