23 Jun The Mystery of One God
Its easier to see in the Bible how Jesus and the Father are separate. Jesus prays to the Father, so they must be separate, and indeed they are. Yet it is hard for us to wrap our minds around how together, how inseparable, how agreed and how unified they also are.
For example. In Isaiah 45:22-24 it says this about God:
“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear. They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone are deliverance and strength.’”
This passage shows that everyone will bow before God and say “In the Lord alone are deliverance and strength.” In that verse God is Lord.
Then you have Philippians 2:9-11 9:
“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
In this passage we now see that Jesus Christ is Lord and everyone bows to Him. Are these two passages describing two gods, or the same God. It is the same God as other passages of scripture such as Deuteronomy 6:4 declare, “The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”
This is why the trinity is a mystery. God is something we don’t understand, and that in fact is a comforting idea. We worship a God who is beyond understanding, and isn’t made up. The ancient Greek and Roman gods were understandable, something you could make up, like Marvel characters, but our God has aspects of him which don’t make sense. And that is a wonderful thing.
Sometimes Christians are accused of inventing the idea of the trinity, but you can be assured nobody would probably have even thought of it, if it were in fact not revealed to us.