UNITY IN DIVERSITY: A CASE FOR TRINITY

A proponent for Buddhism once said “it is all about brotherhood, we are to seek brotherhood” and He was right, the problem is that in the human experience there are more “hoods” than “brothers”. What is the source of this hoodishness? (That word is not in the dictionary!).

In earlier notes, I have explained that in studying every religious world view, it must be able to answer the question of

Origin

Condition

Salvation and

Destiny

And the answers must cohere after that.

The Christian entry point is that God created man(Origin) , man sinned (explaining our condition) and God sent Jesus (the Son of God) to die for sinful man, anyone that accepts this salvation token in Christ receives eternal life (which is Life with God). Eternal life is more than just a physical place (which it is) but also includes the indwelling of God in the saved one.

That is the Christian world view, but how do I explain the trinity. This answer is for the seeker, it is noteworthy here to state that in Life there is a principle of cause and effect; Causality.

Someone said that the evolution of man from the big bang is like saying a Boeing 747 emerged from a junkyard after an explosion happened, when you look at the effect and the cause (an explosion). It doesn’t add up.

So it is with man, evolution can attempt to explain our unity, but it can’t explain our diversity. Man is essentially diverse; a male cannot exist without a female. (It takes both to be Human).

In humans, there is a diversity of feelings, of thirsts and affection. The satiety experienced in feeding the body is very different from that of the mind and spirit, the exhilaration of our sexuality cannot be compared with the spirituality of a worship experience. The tastiness of food and the blandness of water, all tell the tale of unity in diversity. Years ago Socrates’ students asked him of the essence of Life, he answered air, water, fire and air. They then asked for the unifying essence, the “quintessence” of life, the truth that unifies all truths.

To explain unity in diversity in the effect (i.e. us). There has to be unity in diversity in the first cause (Origin; God).

And the only system that has unity in diversity is in the Christian Faith, We find unity, diversity and community in the Trinity. How else can we say that God spoke or that God is Love, who was he speaking to, who was He loving?

Minus Trinity, we find a God that needed to create in order to speak or Love. So when God said “Let us create Man in our own image” we had the “first cause”.

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Okwonna N. Nelson