A mystery is something that we affirm is true, but we don't understand all of the ramifications of it.

Now, biblical Christianity certainly has its share of mysteries. We don't understand how God can be infinite in his

being and yet we affirm that he is and there are many truths that God reveals to us about himself

that are beyond our capacity to understand in fact some of these truths we may never

fully understand even in heaven.

Can you explain the Trinity that there is one God in three persons, Father, son, and Holy Spirit?

Because we cannot completely explain a truth, does that mean it's not true?

How do you respond to those who say belief in the Trinity is a belief in a contradiction?

Well I'm glad you're joining us on this Saturday edition of Renewing Remind as we continue this

series on the Trinity and consider the difference between a contradiction and a mystery.

If you'd like to study this topic further or help someone else understand what the Bible teaches about God and the Trinity,

you can request the complete series and R.C. Sproll's small book What Is the Trinity at renewing your mind

dot org? Well to respond to some objections to the Trinity including the claim that it's a

contradiction here's Dr. Sprawl.

As we continue now with our study of the Trinity, we've seen now something of the doctrine as it's found in the Old Testament

scriptures and then the New Testament scriptures and how the doctrine developed in terms of church

history in the early centuries of Christian reflection,

but we've noted along the way that the constant criticism of the Trinity is that it's irrational, that it involves a

contradiction.

And you recall earlier, I responded to that by saying that to call it a contradiction is to

misapply the law of non-contradiction to the formula because the formula for the Trinity teaches

that God is one in essence and three in person so that it's one in one thing three in another what we would say one in

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