Incoming large post: Hard disagree on knowing trinitarianism is true by faith. It is obvious from scripture, it can be demonstrated from scripture. A thing does not have to be understood exhaustively to know it. Any christian who “knows it by faith” is in danger, just as any Christian who knows any other aspect of Christianity on faith. (Faith being defined as that gross and lazy “blind and unjustified acceptance of a claim”) I KNOW trinitarianism is true because the Bible records a God who is the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Bible depicts each as distinct persons. The Bible claims God is one, yes. But it uses the same word for God is one, as it does for a husband and wife becoming one: Echad. A oneness of being, not personhood. So when God said let us make man in our Image in the beginning, and then John tells us that Jesus was with God and was God in the beginning, well… I don’t know what to tell you other than, the Bible teaches God is a Trinity. I don’t have to understand how it’s possible, or how it works, thats only tangentially relevant. The Bible says the above things, it does not contradict them, they are internally consistent, and therefore logic dictates that God must be triune in nature.
Incoming large post: Hard disagree on knowing trinitarianism is true by faith. It is obvious from scripture, it can be demonstrated from scripture. A thing does not have to be understood exhaustively to know it. Any christian who “knows it by faith” is in danger, just as any Christian who knows any other aspect of Christianity on faith. (Faith being defined as that gross and lazy “blind and unjustified acceptance of a claim”)
I KNOW trinitarianism is true because the Bible records a God who is the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Bible depicts each as distinct persons. The Bible claims God is one, yes. But it uses the same word for God is one, as it does for a husband and wife becoming one: Echad. A oneness of being, not personhood. So when God said let us make man in our Image in the beginning, and then John tells us that Jesus was with God and was God in the beginning, well… I don’t know what to tell you other than, the Bible teaches God is a Trinity.
I don’t have to understand how it’s possible, or how it works, thats only tangentially relevant. The Bible says the above things, it does not contradict them, they are internally consistent, and therefore logic dictates that God must be triune in nature.