Do you? Do you know what God is? The Church says that the Holy Trinity is incomprehensible to human minds and cannot be understood (or as the Orthodox like to put it "where words fall silent"). God is the Supreme Mystery, "beyond everything and all".
It must be believed. Not taught, but "revealed." So, not even the Church can describe the undescirbable, or explain the incomprehensible, or know the unknowable. No one can. For the Church, God is a supreme Mystery. Man is limited to knowng God by knowing what God is not, and not what God is.
***Remember that the formulation of the Trinity took hundreds of years to get their arms around and still to this day, many if not most Christians really don’t have a clue as to what the Trinity is.
Do you? Do you know what God is? The Church says that the Holy Trinity is incomprehensible to human minds and cannot be understood (or as the Orthodox like to put it “where words fall silent”). God is the Supreme Mystery, “beyond everything and all”.
It must be believed. Not taught, but “revealed.” So, not even the Church can describe the undescirbable, or explain the incomprehensible, or know the unknowable. No one can. For the Church, God is a supreme Mystery. Man is limited to knowng God by knowing what God is not, and not what God is.***
Do I? I believe what the Church believes; what the Creeds say and that God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are one God, the Trinity. I was speaking to the beliefs of many that God the Father is the stern Jovian overlord of the OT, killing and maiming at whim; Jesus is the messenger subordinate and androgenous, who loves all of mankind and came to us as friend and helper; and the Holy Spirit who is the messenger boy of Jesus who is faceless and nameless and merely acts as Jesus or God the Father dictate.
We have certain things that the Church says IS. Agreed, we have more things that the Church says IS NOT. But there are some positive statements that are embraced by the Faith.