Well I am in a sense, but there needs to be added an asterisk. God is One, yet there is a complexity there. The trinity is a doctrine that is pretty much fully neglected from what I see, yet in my opinion it sets the foundation of what makes Christianity so different from every other religion.
Basically in all world views that affirm the existence of God, the existence and nature of the deity or deities can be located according to where it falls in the scale of a transcendent, or immanent (meaning close) polarity. Thus..
- God Transcendent------------------------------------------------------God immanent
Thus, deism for example asserts God's transcendence over his creation, but denies his closeness. He set the universe in motion, endowed it with certain natural principles and laws, then stood back and now watches it run.
Pantheists though would identify god with the universe. He or she affirms the closeness of god in all that is around us, but denies his transcendence over the universe.
Yet, how amazing the triune God is!!! God the Father, perfectly transcendent as the creator. God the Son, who would be in the middle, breaking into our world as a man, living and dying amongst us. God the Spirit, living literally within us, pressing God's will upon our hearts.
Now where would Christianity lie in this scale? I suppose the middle would be the best answer, but that is also incomplete.
I want to share some verses... Acts 17:24-28 this is Paul preaching to gentiles.
24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
I read this and I think, how amazingly BIG God is! How sovereign, how transcendent, how powerful! Then i read more and i think How amazingly CLOSE God is. IN him we live, we breath, we move, we have our being. We are his offspring! We have a God, worthy of worship, to be honored, praised, and feared. Yet he is so close, a friend, a shepherd, a Father. A monotheistic God cannot accomplish this amazing balance.....a Triune God can.... How absolutely amazing....think and work that out!
*This is only part 1, i'm gonna keep going into the trinity. If it bores you i'm sorry. I'm trying to put into words what i've been thinking. I strongly believe the trinity need to be understood by all Christians.
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Paul: "As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'"
Solid pertinent speech to the gentiles.
This verse has given much affirmation to the importance of the trinity. To me at least
Revelation 1:4-5
4John to the seven churches that are in Asia:
Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
5and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
http://www.monergism.com/Trinity.html
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