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And God said,
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Let us make man in our image
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according to our likeness.
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75 years ago or so in her essay
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The Dogma Is the Drama,
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Dorothy Sayers' included a
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hypothetical exam paper testing
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the average Englishman's
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knowledge of basic Christian
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doctrine.
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After a question and answer,
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each about the Father,
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Son and Holy Ghost comes to
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fourth question what is the
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doctrine of the Trinity?
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Answer the Father
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incomprehensible,
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the Son incomprehensible,
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and the whole thing
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incomprehensible.
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Something put in by theologians
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to make it more difficult,
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nothing to do with daily
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life or ethics.
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With her characteristic wit,
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Sayers decried the remarkable
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ignorance of Christian teaching
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in a supposedly Christian
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nation.
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And we all know that such
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ignorance has only grown.
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Indeed,
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I suppose it's not inconceivable
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that similar exam results could
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appear on a seminary
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entrance test,
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even if not openly expressed.
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The sentiment is certainly
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there for most people,
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even Christian people.
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The doctrine of the Trinity is
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not only baffling but mostly
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irrelevant. One God,
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and yet three persons.
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There's nothing logical,
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reasonable or practical
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about it.
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It is all just incomprehensible.
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Have you felt the sense of
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foreboding and bewildered awe
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that emanates from the
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congregation each spring when
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the Athenation Creed gets
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dutifully rolled out for its
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annual command performance?
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The perplexity is matched only
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by the relief after
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the deed is done,
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and rare is the parishioner who
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will dare to say much about it
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for fear of exposing his
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ignorance or confusion and
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giving others reason to question
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his orthodoxy over some odd but
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apparently important
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point of doctrine.
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Given the obvious difficulty
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of the doctrine,
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it is no wonder that religious
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people like Joseph Smith and
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Charles Tayes Russell saw the
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doctrine of the Trinity as an
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impediment to faith and declared
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it a concocted teaching,
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which is ironic,
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considering the wanton creation
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of unique doctrine common among
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both their Latter day Saints
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and Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Yet, whether easy or difficult,
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orthodox believers confess one
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God in Trinity and
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Trinity in unity,
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neither confusing the persons
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nor dividing the substance.
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We confess
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what we do not and cannot
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understand.
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And that's just fine,
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because faith is not predicated
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on understanding. In fact,
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faith demands the opposite.
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Faith demands ignorance.
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But that doesn't sound
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quite right,
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especially not in a place
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committed to imparting
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knowledge about God.
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Maybe we should say it this way
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our goal is to make Christians
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not who understand.
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Our goal is to make Christians
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who don't know. Our goal,
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in other words,
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is to make Christian agnostics.
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That sounds even worse.
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See, the thing is, though,
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that no matter how it sounds,
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it's true.
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Gnosis is not the goal.
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Knowing is not the objective.
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To require knowing and
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understanding is to thwart
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and kill faith.
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St.
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Augustine made the same point
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some 15 centuries ago.
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What then, brethren,
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shall we say of God?
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For if you have been able to
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comprehend what you
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wanted to say,
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it is not God.
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If you have been able
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to comprehend it,
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you have comprehended something
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else instead of God.
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If you have been able to
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comprehend Him as you think,
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by so thinking,
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you have deceived yourself.
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This, then,
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is not God if you have
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comprehended it.
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But if it is God,
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you have not comprehended it.
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How, therefore,
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would you speak of that which
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you cannot comprehend?
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So it is that at the very core
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of our Christian faith,
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the foundation and bedrock of
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our lives is a mystery we
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cannot ever comprehend.
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You cannot wrap your
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mind around God.
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It simply can't be done.
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Augustine reminds us of the
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truth implicit in every Trinity
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Sunday. Indeed,
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in every trinitarian,
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invocation benediction or
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doxology. God is ineffable,
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incomprehensible,
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and beyond all human capacity.
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Or,
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as Hauerwas and his
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typically pithy prose puts it
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theology is a discipline whose
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subject should always put in
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doubt the very idea that those
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who practice it know what
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they are doing.
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It is the first and abiding
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lesson of all theology
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God is God, and you are not it.
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Stop trying to figure God
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out.
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But if confessing the
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Trinity is hard,
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it's probably even harder to
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resist trying to figure out
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this trinitarian God.
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Ever since our first parents
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reached for the fruit and tried
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to grab hold of divinity
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for themselves,
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we have all been prone
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to follow suit.
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We don't like being limited it.
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We don't like being ignorant.
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We don't like being told there
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are things we can't know because
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we cannot ever understand them.
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We're incapable of it.
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We don't like being limited
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to being human.
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The inclination to grasp and
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conquer the truth of God is not
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only the sin of rationalist
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Aryan heretics like Smith and
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Russell and all their followers
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and it's not just the unique
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temptation of the rarefied
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handful of exceedingly brilliant
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human beings who contemplate the
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truths of existence in this
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universe and reach conclusions
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about what God must or must not
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be like based on their thinking.
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No, even the most ordinary,
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down to earth, common sense,
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loving human beings are all
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prone to think about God and
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reach conclusions about God
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based on what seems
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right to them.
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You do it too.
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When God does things or allows
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things that don't line up with
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your sense of justice or your
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ideas about goodness.
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You'd like to know why.
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You want to understand this God
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who's not doing what you
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believe God should do.
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You want God to meet your
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expectations and live up to your
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standards of rights and
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wrong and compassion.
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You want God to do what you know
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God is supposed to do.
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God, though, is God.
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You are not going to get your
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mind around his reality.
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You can't figure Him out
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or comprehend Him.
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You can't know all there is to
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know about his being or his
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truth. And when you try,
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you sin.
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You don't need to know why
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God does what he does.
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You don't need to know how he
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can be three persons
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and yet one God.
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You don't need to know how a God
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who is complete and self
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sufficient and unchanging can
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act in time and respond to
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creatures he has made.
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You don't need to know
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any of this.
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You don't need to know the
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answers to the mysteries of the
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universe or the secrets
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of its creator.
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You you only need to know what
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God wants you to know.
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Only need to know the part of
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the story that he has told
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you and shown you.
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You don't need the God of the
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heretics or the rationalists or
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the philosophers or even the
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theologians who just end up
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worshipping their own
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understanding.
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You just need the God
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of the story.
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You just need the God who
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reveals him self in his work.
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The God who simply is speaks and
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light flashes into existence.
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He speaks again and space opens
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up in his new world.
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He speaks another time and
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there's dry land and then stars
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and planets and birds and fish
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and a best zoo ever
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Jurassic park jammed
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full of animals.
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He does all of that
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just by speaking.
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All of that just by the
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power of His Word.
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And then the God who simply is
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does a remarkable thing.
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He reaches into the world he has
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made digs into the dust and mud
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crafts a body breathes into
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that body his spirits,
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his wack and makes a man
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the Lord God.
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God's eternal word and his
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eternal spirits make man.
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He makes you.
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That's what God does.
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That's the God who is.
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You don't need a God that
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straddles the heights of your
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greatest thoughts or who
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conforms to your understanding.
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No.
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You need the only true God who
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does whatever he chooses,
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however he chooses.
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You need the one God who creates
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and engages and loves
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his creation.
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This is the God you can know the
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One who has made Himself known.
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You need this God.
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You need the only God who
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creates and cares.
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Because when you make a mess of
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being a creature and you will
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you need the God who alone is
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able to make you right again.
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You need the God who did even
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more than stoop down to form
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you out of the mud.
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You need the God who actually
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joined himself to his creation
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by becoming just as
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human as you are.
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That is a truth that no human
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could ever conjure.
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That the only true God who is
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creator and Lord of all.
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Would enter fully into
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his creation,
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would become part
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of his creation.
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It is an idea even more
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inconceivable,
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incomprehensible than one God
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who is three persons.
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Doctrine of the Trinity
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not easy.
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It might seem esoteric and
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unnecessarily confusing,
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like a trick played by someone
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trying to make things difficult.
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But the complexity or the
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sublimity of the doctrine
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is not the point.
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Whether or not God makes
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sense is not the point.
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Whether or not God does what we
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think he should do
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is not the point.
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The point is for you to confess
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the one God who acts in time and
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space, the God who creates,
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who loves, who sacrifices,
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who redeems, who dies,
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and who rises for you.
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That's the point.
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You confess the Trinity because
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that is the reality that God
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has made known to you.
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It is the truth declared by
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Jesus. God the Father,
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God the Son,
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and God the Holy Spirit,
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created you, redeemed you,
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and will raise and glorify you.
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He is the only God you need.
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Today you celebrate the
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only God you need.
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The festival of the Trinity is
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not a celebration of the
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ineffable or the sublime or the
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God of philosophers or kitchen
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table thinkers.
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The festival of the Trinity is
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the celebration of the God who
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is, who makes Himself known,
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known,
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in and with and for
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his creation.
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You do not need to understand
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or figure out the Trinity.
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You just need to receive
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the truth he gives you.
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Celebrating the Trinity means
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there's nothing to
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be figured out.
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There's just God's glory to
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praise and God's gifts
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to receive.
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To be trinitarian is not a
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matter of knowing or explaining.
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To be trinitarian is simply to
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live and tell God's story the
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way that he has unfolded it.
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That true story is the only one
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you need. That true
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God is the only one you need.
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Amen.