The Trinity
The most complicated topic within the realm of Christian theology is the Trinity. There have been thousands of books written on the topic over the past 2000 plus years. We human beings can only use the skills that we have to try to make sense of God. One of those skills is language. God is a complicated construct. The concept of the Trinity claims that God is male, part human and part spirit. He consists of at least three parts – The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit. There may be many more parts to God than just three parts because the Hebrew word that best approximates to the Trinity is Elohim which means ‘gods’ but it can also mean ‘one god’ as well. Will there ever be enough words available to completely describe God? Probably not.

Concepts like the Trinity remind us, searchers of the truth, of just how many philosophical doors we have to unlock and then pass through in order to get a deeper and truer understanding of the entity we call God, the creator of all things. I met a young man not too long ago who shared with me his reasoning for wanting to learn more about God and to deepen his faith. As a child growing up he felt as though religion was something that he was forced to participate in. It didn’t make much sense to him and he really didn’t see the purpose for it. However, with age comes wisdom and insight. As he grew older he began contemplating some of the deeper questions of life. What am I here for? What is my purpose? Where is my life going? All very difficult questions that we all answer at some point in our lives. For him, he decided that the best way to find the answer to those questions was to embark on a journey of faith and to seek for answers along the way. To truly understand the Trinity you and I must engage on a journey of discovery. Will we ever get to the answer? Only God knows. Will we learn more about it and other complicated constructs of life along the path? Perhaps. Will the journey be worth it in the end? Most definitely. The unknown writer of the Taoist proverb states, and I believe it, ‘The journey is the reward.’
Amen.