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To: Dutch-Comfort
If anything, the Christian concept of the trinity is perhaps the most difficult one to logically justify. It took centuries for the Church to clarify it's teaching on it, and even today it is clearly evident among Christian churches that their is no clear and consistant interpretation of it's meaning.

Well, yes. That's to be expected. To postulate that there is a God who preceded creation and will exist after creation is gone, who is external to space and time, and who is both omiscient and omnipotent, and then to expect to find His nature to be easily comprehensible, is absurd on the face of it.

Complicated apologetics are the unavoidable consequence.

273 posted on 11/29/2002 8:50:09 AM PST by Oberon
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To: Oberon; Dutch-Comfort
Dutch-Comfort: If anything, the Christian concept of the trinity is perhaps the most difficult one to logically justify.

Oberon: Well, yes. That's to be expected. To postulate that there is a God who preceded creation and will exist after creation is gone, who is external to space and time, and who is both omiscient and omnipotent, and then to expect to find His nature to be easily comprehensible, is absurd on the face of it.

Our inability to understand or grasp a concept does not negate or limit the "concept." Unfortunately, because our brains have a limited ability to understand or grasp things of this magnitude, many people use this to either justify their disbelief or limit the power of God.

274 posted on 11/29/2002 9:33:52 AM PST by nicmarlo
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