THE UNBEARABLE UNIQUENESS OF THE TRIUNE GOD

By Alba-Maria Grembi

By Valentino Mazziarelo

How many God is? Various cultures have set to answer this eternal question in their own way: some find many gods in separation and collaboration; others find one in absolute terms. To this latter category, the idea of the Trinity found in the Christian faith becomes unbearable. Others may copy it, but not reasonably enough to express its uniqueness.

By Didno Didno

 To what can we compare the Triune God; what is He like? 

To nothing; like no-thing. The Triune God is unlike anything in His creation. His uniqueness is so intense that it lacks a basic tenant of our capacity to conceive anything: frames of reference that resemble His nature. Visualising God as One in essence and Three in person is a task so strange to humanity that it could never dwell in it alone, not even through its most enlightened brains.

By Marek Piwnicki

In the words of our enlightened Einstein: “I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?”

By Nikita Khandelwal

Yet, in its repeated attempts to understand the inconceivable, the human mind insists on describing it in its own likeness. It creates a god in its own image and rejects everything it — with its vast limitations — fails to understand; it therefore rests in the unbearable prison of its own matter. In this prison, the view of the Triune God is blasphemous: it blasphemes against an egocentric obsession of the human person with its own subject.

By Mike Bird

Since humanity can only find its expression in itself (one being, one person), the deity that dares to escape this image and likeness is a threat. In this ungraceful perspective of the human lens, the supreme power loses its supremacy: it can only do what the mind commands it to do — and it cannot even partake in its own creation.

By Hakeem James Hausley

Amongst a confused struggle between concepts, some — tangled between the soul and the spirit — don’t understand how God can have a Spirit; others — tangled between the spirit and the flesh — don’t understand how God can have a Son. Fighting against themselves, they challenge God’s love and His will to enter the human experience, or to declare life over the death of His own flesh. They remain thus trapped in this poetic oxymoron: the divine is inconceivable — it stands out as our creator; yet we must be able to conceive it to accept it.

By Mike Bird

How can the human mind, tangled in its own brain, approach a distant understanding of the God of creation? One way is following His own instructions: “You will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:16). One of the fruits of God’s blessed work is this human being — so desperately enclosed in its one-ness, yet so commune in its expressions. And, if only we expand beyond this self, we do see a great example of a selfless concept that speaks volumes: the family.

By Jonathan Borba

A home of two means partnership. A home of more — with spiritual or/and biological bonds — means family. The family is one regardless of how many persons are added in it. In this addition, some roles become greater: the sons and daughters always learn from their parents, transferring these teachings (whether good or bad) into society. They may carry different names; they may move and become distant — but, so long as these bonds continue to exist, the family is still one. The family is many (persons).

How many (persons) God is?

Photo by Jonas Ferlin

 Much can be cited to describe the Triune God. But it fails, also in glory. He Is beyond imagination — He Is: incomparable, inconceivable, incomprehensible. This is how one knows He Is the one God. And we, trapped in the vast limitations of our simple reality, may only approach Him through His own grace: the Father is revealed only through the Son’s love; the Son is given only by the Father’s will; the Spirit is seen only under the Son’s light. 

This is the greatest miracle.

By Bahram Bayat

The Unbearable Uniqueness of the Triune God

 By Alba-Maria Grembi