There are two points with which I agree: one is, when Selwyn says: ‘The story of Israel is really the battle of the gods – which god is the real God. Not until belief in one God was laid deep in the consciousness of the Jewish nation was God ready to reveal more clearly to humankind the sublime truth of the Trinity.’
The second point is this: ‘It is a strange thing, but I have observed it as a fact of the Christian life that when this truth is modified or pushed aside, it is as if the door is opened to the inrush of all kinds of absurd ideas, bizarre theories, and half-truths.’
In addition, I’ve noticed that when people talk as if they fully understand the doctrine of the Trinity they also appear to branch out into the realm of the bizarre. Have you experienced the same thing?
A watershed truth
There are two points with which I agree: one is, when Selwyn says: ‘The story of Israel is really the battle of the gods – which god is the real God. Not until belief in one God was laid deep in the consciousness of the Jewish nation was God ready to reveal more clearly to humankind the sublime truth of the Trinity.’
The second point is this: ‘It is a strange thing, but I have observed it as a fact of the Christian life that when this truth is modified or pushed aside, it is as if the door is opened to the inrush of all kinds of absurd ideas, bizarre theories, and half-truths.’
In addition, I’ve noticed that when people talk as if they fully understand the doctrine of the Trinity they also appear to branch out into the realm of the bizarre. Have you experienced the same thing?