Hey again from the Institute!

            This past week in the Institute we were able to discuss the Trinity. Glen Kreider, from Dallas Theological Seminary, came in and taught the material and I learned a ton.  The Trinity is something that I have always heard about growing up in church but I had never really taken the time to sit down and study it. The more we dove into the topic this week the more I realized how little I actually know about the Trinity. The Trinity is the Biblical doctrine that God is one unified God that is made up of 3 separate persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. These persons are all distinct from one another, yet are all one God. I have always heard this and believed it but this is the first time I really sat down to think about the details of it. The trinity truly is something that is uncomprehend able. To think that there can be 3 separate beings, yet be one person at the same time is hard to grasp. We know that there are 3 separate being from Matthew 28:19-20 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” We see here the trinity clearly described as 3 separate entities. Although, we know that they are all one being because of Isaiah “Declare and set forth your case;
 Indeed, let them consult together.
Who has announced this from of old?
Who has long since declared it?
Is it not I, the Lord?
And there is no other God besides Me, 
A righteous God and a Savior;
 There is none except Me. Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; 
For I am God, and there is no other.” So we have these both being described as 1 being and 3 separate beings at the same time. Definitely a hard concept to grasp but we also have to understand that we can never fully know God living in this broken world, so these mysteries will remain a mystery until we will be ultimately glorified by God someday.