Can anyone give me a good reason for ‘trinity’ ?
How does trinity really help to ‘understand God’ ?
How does trinity really help to describe God as the Bible says ?
How does trinity help anyone see their sin, come to repentance, accept Jesus as their Savior ?
How does trinity help anyone want and experience a closer walk with Jesus ?
How does trinity inspire anyone to tell others to believe as a child—required to reach heaven ?
How does trinity not raise questions ?
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As I have written in lots of ways, trinity always brings out new attempts to explain it, including ridiculous terms that are laughable to anyone outside theological ivory towers.
Trinity doctrine ‘developed’ over centuries—why doesn’t anyone consider ‘undeveloping’ trinity, for lack of useful function to the great commission.
Is there really any defense of trinity other than “we’ve always [almost always] done it [taught it] this way ?
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Reading/studying about trinity immediately gets into verbal weeds—so thick it creates the soil in Jesus’ parable where weeds choke out the chance of the Word producing fruit.
Effective evangelism necessarily avoids trinity, because it is a liability for telling people to believe.
Yet, as I said before, trinity continually rolls off the tongues of teachers, without a thought of how it comes across to listeners.
What DO they think when they hear trinity ?—probably nothing.
Trinity—just accept it—don’t question it—don’t ask questions—don’t make anyone make it complicated by asking and expecting answers to your questions. (Read that again, slowly.)
So—please—what in the world is wrong with just skipping trinity ?—and just using Bible verses with the Father and the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit ? ? ?
Does the Bible have enough for preachers, teachers, listeners. small groups, personal reading and study—without trinity ?
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Test with this summary:
Bible passages warm the heart and challenge the mind and strengthen the faith.
Trinity does ‘neither’ of the three above.
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