{"id":6517,"date":"2024-05-09T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T05:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2024-05-18T21:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T02:07:10","slug":"why-did-you-just-now-say-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6517","title":{"rendered":"WHY DID YOU JUST NOW SAY &#8220;TRINITY&#8221; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every time I hear a preacher or Bible teacher say &#8220;trinity&#8221; in the middle of a sentence, I want to ask some questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you consciously say &#8220;trinity&#8221;, on purpose, with a purpose ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, why did you say &#8220;trinity&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you ever stop to think about why you said &#8220;trinity&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did saying &#8220;trinity&#8221; add to your message ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What difference did it make to you when you said &#8220;trinity&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What difference did it make to your listeners when you said &#8220;trinity&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do your listeners know what you mean when you say &#8220;trinity&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if your listeners asked what you mean when you say &#8220;trinity&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever explained &#8220;trinity&#8221; when you said it ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many ways have people explained &#8220;trinity&#8221; ?<br>(over thirty million different <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">attempts<\/span> listed on the internet, and counting)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who tells you to say &#8220;trinity&#8221; in your message ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if you did not say &#8220;trinity&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would your listeners lose anything in their relationship with Jesus if you did not say &#8220;trinity&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so tempted to answer these questions, but some theologians need to think about &#8220;Why say &#8216;trinity?'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I hear a preacher or Bible teacher say &#8220;trinity&#8221; in the middle of a sentence, I want to ask some questions. Did you consciously say &#8220;trinity&#8221;, on purpose, with a purpose ? So, why did you say &#8220;trinity&#8221; ? Did you ever stop to think about why you said &#8220;trinity&#8221; ? What did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6535,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}