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Author: Al
Posted: 2006-05-27 02:19:51
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I've been reading a bit of anti-trinitarian apologetics lately. That is an area that I have never truly researched. By anti-trinitarian, I mean Christian groups. Mohammedans and Jewish folks have good reasons to not be trinitarians, and thus write very little on the matter. Of those that call themselves Christians and for whatever reason do not believe in the trinity, they have quite a bit to say about it.
I can understand their views. In my early childhood experiences with religion, I was instinctively Unitarian. I have come to understand and believe in the trinity over a number of years and through many experiences. It has been a slow process that I must admit is not yet complete. My solidifying influence is G.K. Chesterton. I had worked things out logically on my own, but the real emotional value had escaped me until I read his passages in Orthodoxy that dealt with it.
He said, in effect, that a god without a corporeal form is an incomplete god. Reflect on this for a moment and see if you find this as enlightening as I have.
Is it important that your god come down and walk with man?
Is it vital to your theology that your deity humble himself infinitely and hold your hand?
Can you stand the presence of such a being should it exist?
This is what Lewis called the unbearable love. To be such a lowly creature and hold such a high place in the eyes of your creator is almost insufferable when truly examined. God knows exactly what kind of creature you are. He also knows the kind of creature that you are capable of becoming. According to Trinitarian Christianity he has sacrificed all to make you into that creature. He will demand nothing less than the same from you.
That is what the Unitarian faiths lack for me. They lack the presence of God in my transformation. Without God in our midst at some point, be it in the past, present or future, we are alone. Our connection to him could not be solid.
Sure, the trinity is hard to understand. Can you understand anything else about God so certainly? Is your god simple to comprehend? Does he fit nicely into a creed? A handful of creeds? Is his interest in and connection to humanity so esoteric?
To me, the complexity and near incomprehension of the trinity implies that it is the closest thing that we have to the truth of God. If the trinity is mathematically impossible as one brazen young man once told me, then that clenches it. My God is not bound by any mathematical equation. The God of most of Christendom is bigger than the entire universe. He is both outside of it and in. Tell me that you could not imagine such a thing were possible. I will tell you that unimaginable is exactly the word that I would use to describe my lord. |
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