Holy Trinity, Holy One

Our God is a Trinitarian God. as Christians, we may be able to accept all of this, but when you are asked by a non-believer, how are you going to be able to answer? Perhaps one way to consider the trinity of God is to consider the elements on Earth. For example, here on earth, water is naturally found as a solid, liquid, and a gas. Water is water in all these different states. It never fails to be water at any point, and it always maintains its integrity throughout. While these different states of matter change in how they may look and feel and be experienced depending on the circumstance, they are all nonetheless water. This is not an answer to the question of the trinity, but it does make it easier to accept. God the Father is one state or form of God; God the Son, and all of them have different purposes. None ever ceased to exist, and all will continue to exist. We do serve one God, but in three different persons, or forms. J.I.Packer writes, "The practical importance of the doctrine of the Trinity is that it requires us to pay equal attention, and give equal honor, to all three persons in the unity of their gracious ministry to us. That ministry is the subject matter of the gospel." We may not know why God exists the way He does or how. What we do know, however, is that the existence of the Trinity is important, and that is what we need to be focusing on. Living Life