Trinitarianisticism

Trinitarianism is a crucial theological issue, which many Christians find hard to wrap their minds around. I myself have troubles understanding it beyond the Sunday school lesson explanations. I believe comparing the perfect unity of the Trinity to other theistic beliefs is important to do, to strengthens ones own understanding of it.

In order to come to an understanding of the theology of God and more specifically the Trinity we must have a God with contours and edges. We must know who God is and who God isn’t. We can only do this with much prayer and petitioning to God that he would enlighten our minds so that we can see his grace for what it really is. We must also view scripture as inherently God’s word and respect it as a double edged sword that can cut through our hard hearts.

The trinity is the belief that God exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The three persons of the Trinity are constantly working together as one to accomplish the same goal, to give glory to Themselves. The Father created the world and sent his Son to save the world that rejected him. The Son experienced an excruciating death and is now seated beside the father in heaven, which we worship through the help of the Holy Spirit.

Atheism is the belief that there is no God or gods/goddesses. A belief system that would have been completely unbelievable in Old Testament times, which assumes that everyone believes in God, the God of the Trinity. Psalm 14:1 and 53:1 state “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.” The failure of atheism is that it requires our fallen minds to have complete knowledge of all things. 2 Corinthians states: The God of this age has blinded the mind of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Believers in Agnosticism state that we only have access to the physical world around, and cannot begin to know the spiritual world or God. The bible states the exact opposite. Agnosticism being almost right states that we can’t know God, however errors by not thinking that God can reveal himself to us, which allows us to know him, specifically Jesus who came in human form to earth.

Polytheism states that there are and can be many gods or goddesses. We see over and over again the consequences of this belief by reading almost any portion of scripture. One example would be the story of Jeroboam in 1 Kings 12. He constructed idols to worship and as a result dogs and birds ended up eating his family. An extreme example, but not nearly as extreme as spending eternity in hell for worshipping the wrong god or goddess.

Monotheism is the belief in one God. Monotheism is very close to Christianity. Christianity is more than another monotheistic religion however. God is not satisfied with a belief in a God. Many people believe in one god, be it money, power or sex. God requires us to worship him alone, the one true God exactly how he is revealed to us through the scriptures.

With so many views of what and who God is, the world has so many choices as to whom to worship. I argue along with Christ that there is only one true God, which we should worship. Christ states in John 14:6 “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Amen.

Who am I?...I don't know. Looks like you've got some things to ponder

In the upcoming weeks i will be posting papers that i've been required to write for the deacon process at Mars Hill Church. I hope you find them educational and informational. I'm sorry for the long absence too, writer's block and too much going on are bad combinations.

Proving the existence of God:
The existence of God can be proven in several different ways; following is a summary of arguments for the existence of the true God.

Ontological: Brought forth by the philosopher Anselm of Canterbury, this argument proves the existence of God by stating that humans are constantly aware of a perfect and greater being than themselves. This being is as perfect as humanly imaginable. Also, since humans are only able to envision that which exists, God must exist. To summarize this argument states that God exists because humans can imagine he exists.

Teleological: This argument takes the avenue of creation and the intelligent mind that created it. It is hard to escape the beauty and order of creation, and to ignore that is to ignore its creator. The amount of intricacies and exactness in the world are not mechanical but creative processes being orchestrated by God. The illustrations of a watch or an airplane have commonly been used to illustrate this point. Watches and airplanes are not randomly brought together by powers outside of them, they are however created by humans, much like the world was created by the hand of God.

Cosmological: Simply stated this argument follows the relationship between cause and effect. There is no reaction if there is no action. God spoke the world into existence, and the world was created. Things are not created from themselves, but rather things or in this case, beings outside of them. God is eternal; he has no beginning or end allowing him to be the creator and sovereign ruler of the world.

Kalam: This argument originated with medieval Muslim philosophers, which argued that since time exists God must exist. Similar to the Cosmological argument in that in order for time to exist, something outside of time had to create it. The reference point of time beginning was created by God.

Morality: Every (sane) created being has a sense of right and wrong built in, referred to commonly as a conscience. Where does this conscience come from? We are created in the image of God, which gives a moral compass helping us to determine what is right and wrong. It is when we ignore our consciences that we fall into sin and reject God.