Today, while we're doing your mind, how can God be one but three?

It may seem to be contradictory because we're saying God is one essence and three persons,

and we are accustomed in our vantage point as human beings to see one being is one person.

Now to that extent, the doctrine of the Trinity in this formulation is mysterious.

And that mystery has caused many to reach their hands to the sky in frustration.

How do we understand such a difficult topic?

Well, today I'm renewing your mind.

We continue our C-Sprull Series on systematic theology, and we'll learn that while the doctrine

of the Trinity is mysterious, it is by no means contradictory.

One time ago I had a conversation with a professor of philosophy in one of the American universities

and he told me that he was an atheist and that he couldn't understand how any intelligent

person could embrace Christianity because of the very heart of the Christian system of

thought was a manifest contradiction.

And I said, well, what's that? And he said, well, the doctrine of the Trinity.

He said, the doctrine of the Trinity is a contradiction and intelligent people don't embrace

contradictions.

So I said, well, I agree with part of that.

I said, I grant you that intelligent people ought not to embrace contradictions, though

many of them often do.

I agree with you that intelligent people should not embrace contradictions.

I said, but what surprises me is that you would classify and categorize the Christian

doctrine of the Trinity as a contradiction, not that it's surprising to me that people

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