Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.~Most people who are born again don’t really understand the Trinity. How important can it be?
~Most people who are born again don’t view the Trinity as being centrally connected to their ethics or the nature of the universe. How important can it be?
~Though Christians give lip service to it as being a true and Biblical doctrine, I doubt one in twenty Christians could explain how anything about their spiritual lives and the nature of the universe would be fundamentally different if the Bible had instead proclaimed mere monotheism or tritheism instead of this idea. In other words, they know they’re supposed to believe it’s really important (and they sort of do), but they don’t really know why.
~How can something be so important and yet so dastardly difficult to describe accurately?
~Why don’t we find more natural metaphors for something supposedly so central to all of reality?
~Is it worth dividing between us and Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Oneness Pentecostals, and Unitarians, not to mention Jews?
Links:
Trinity (Wikipedia)
Trinity (Good links below) (Theopedia)
Implications of the Trinity (Blog)
What does the Bible say about the Trinity (Blog)
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Sermon) (Tim Keller)
The Trinity (CARM)
Doctrine of the Trinity
What is the doctrine of the Trinity? (Desiring God)
A brief definition of the Trinity (James White)
Passages showing Jesus is God (CARM)
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