Every time ‘the trinity’ rolls off the tongue of a preacher, does anybody stop to consider what the listener thinks when he hears ‘the trinity’?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can guarantee what the average person thinks about ‘the trinity’—NOTHING !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People can’t ever think anything about ‘the trinity’ unless some theologian ‘explains’ it, or tries to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No lay person can understand ‘the trinity’ at all by reading his Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fact is, nobody—layman or educated professional—can understand ‘the trinity’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If anyone who is supposed to know, paused to explain ‘the trinity’ every time he used this foreign term, he would immediately get on a merry-go-round and go around in circles without going anywhere, either spiritually or intellectually—and then he would never get to finish his message or teaching.
So they all just use the word routinely, over and over without thinking.
Just plug the words in, as though it counts for something, adds something.
And what would that be ? ? ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What continues to amaze me is how EVERYBODY continues to go along with ‘the trinity’ without understanding it or questioning it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They somehow sense how embarrassing are the the classic configurations used to explain ‘the trinity’—all thirty million of them.
And so ‘the trinity’ keeps getting used in nearly every sermon, without a pause, without a clue, without a comprehension—by speaker or listener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why ?
Because ‘the trinity’ is an end in itself, man-made, invented—not to make the Bible and God more clear—to give ‘theologians’ something to write hundreds of books about, that only entrenched theological students could possibly be interested in.
And most get read because they are required, to keep the merry-go-round turning for another generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would like for someone to see how silly this whole system is, and dare to challenge it.
That’s why I’m compelled to write when I hear ‘the trinity’, knowing it is meaningless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skip ‘the trinity’, and everything created with it.
Read the Bible—about God, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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