Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Fred Sanders, entitled Five Myths About the Trinity.

Fred is the author of The Deep Things of God, How the Trinity Changes Everything from Crossway.

Five Myths about the Trinity.

Myth number one.

It's only for theology experts.

The doctrine of the Trinity is for everybody who is saved by Jesus.

Or to say this just a little more elaborately, it's for everybody who's been drawn to the

Father through faith in the Son by the power of the

Holy Spirit. See 2 Corinthians 1314. Or to say it again, it's for everyone who's been adopted by

the Father who sent the Son to redeem us and sent the Holy Spirit of adoption into our hearts to make us

cry out to God, Abba Father. see Galatians 4-4 through 6.

Or to say it another way, it's for everyone who is in communion with other believers through

our common access to the Father in Christ by the Spirit, see Ephesians 218.

Or, to be more precise, it's for everybody who wants to understand how any of this deep salvation

works and what the gospel reveals about the God who stands behind it.

That's because the doctrine of the Trinity is the only view of God that makes sense of Christian

salvation. That's one reason the church baptizes in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. See Matthew 2819.

It's the birthright of all the born again.

There are, of course, experts in the doctrine of the Trinity who've thought about it with precision in depth and studied it in an academic way.

But any subject can be apprehended simply on the one hand and

studied in depth on the other hand. There are experts in everything. And their expertise

doesn't mean the thing they've studied becomes their exclusive property. The Trinity

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