Last week... introductions and God... Creator... Father...
Shared the idea of Trinity... knowing what was ahead... a new concept for a new faith...
Today's treadmill reading confirmed the teaching of Jesus and Spirit in one...
Compelled to take King's Cross to the treadmill... a new book... unopened... inside... Timothy Keller ignited my mind with brain-bursting truths of Triune...
The Christian teaching of the Trinity is mysterious and cognitively challenging. The doctrine of the Trinity is that God is one God, eternally existent in three persons. That's not tritheism, with three gods who work in harmony; neither is it unipersonalism, the notion that sometimes God takes one form and sometimes he takes another, but that these are simply different manifestations of one God. Instead, trinitarianism holds that there is one God in three persons who know and love one another. God is not more fundamentally one than he is three, and he is not more fundamentally three than he is one.
--- Timothy Keller, King's Cross
Thoughts returned to last week's lesson... ideas to build on the question... what does it mean...
...new faith understanding: how He imagined... He created...
The Potter creates a pot... forethought... intention... something completely outside Himself... different... but of Himself... in His image... what He imagines... emerges from the clay...
... theologically sound understanding: like Himself... He created...
The Author creates a story... characters... in His image... ones with whom He can relate... yet... completely outside Himself...
Creator... always greater than the creation...
Potter to pot...
Author to book...
A unique Being... a mystery to the created...God created the entire universe... a three-dimensional creation... therefore He must be greater... more complex... multi-dimensional... something the created can never fully comprehend... something profoundly different... a mystery... the threshold for entering the gates of faith...
Pictures and words... building to explain the unexplainable... to new faith...
God's faithfulness never ceases to amaze...
a simple question...
an answer received... in an unexpected way...
a great God...
"Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives;
he who seeks finds;
and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
---Jesus
Matthew 7:7-8
No comments:
Post a Comment