The triple melody

687 the triple melodyDuring my studies, I took a class where we were asked to reflect on the Triune God. When it comes to explaining the Trinity, also known as the Trinity or Trinity, we reach our limits. Over the centuries, different people have tried to explain this central mystery of our Christian faith. In Ireland, St. Patrick used a three-leaf clover to explain how God who is composed of three different persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - can be only one God Being at the same time. Others explained it in a scientific way, with the elements water, ice and steam, which can have different states and consist of one element.

Duke University theology professor Jeremy Begbie compared the difference and unity of the Trinity of God to a basic chord on a piano. It consists of three different tones that are played simultaneously to form a unified tone. We have the Father (one note), the Son (a second note), and the Holy Spirit (the third note). They sound together in a unified tone. The three notes are so intertwined that they create a beautiful and harmonious sound, a chord. These comparisons, of course, lag behind. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not parts of God; each of them is God.

Is the Doctrine of the Trinity Biblical? The word trinity does not appear in the Bible. This does not mean that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are not found in Scripture. Let us look at an example from Paul: “It is the message from Jesus his Son. He was born a human being and according to his origins belongs to the family of David. Jesus Christ, our Lord, was confirmed as the Son of God when God raised him from the dead with great power through the Holy Spirit »(Romans 1,3-4 New Life Bible).

Did you discover the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit? We can also see the working together of the triune God in the following biblical passage: "According to the providence of God the Father, through the sanctification of the Spirit to obedience and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ" (1. Petrus 1,2).

We see the Trinity at the baptism of Jesus: «It came to pass, when all the people were baptized, and Jesus had also been baptized and prayed, that heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove , and a voice came out of heaven: You are my dear son, I am well pleased in you ”(Luke 3,21-22).

God the Father spoke from heaven, God the Son was baptized, and God the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus like a dove. All three Persons of the Trinity are present while Jesus lived on this earth. Let me repeat a passage from the Gospel of Matthew: "Therefore go and teach all the peoples: baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28,19). Our Father God sent his Son to bring us into communion with him and this sanctifying work is continued by the power of the Holy Spirit.

An infinite God cannot be perfectly described by finite examples. Instead of focusing on the Trinity, try to focus on the fact of God's greatness and His infinitely higher being than we are. «O what a depth of riches, both of wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments and how unsearchable are his ways! For who recognized the mind of the Lord, or who was his counselor? " (Romans 11,33-34).

In other words, as Martin Luther put it: "It is better to worship the mysteries of the Trinity than to describe them!"

by Joseph Tkach