The uncomplicated truth of the Trinity
Trinity Sunday | John 3:1-17
What is the Trinity? she asked with such seriousness. I don’t get it. How can God be three and one at the same time?
I wasn’t a priest then. I just happened to be the one Christian she knew. I was 22. She was 20 or so. We were both working at Barnes and Noble.
And I want to punctuate the openness of this moment. People around, she’s asking a tough question, and also is showing willingness to figure it out. This wasn’t a gotcha moment or an expression of naivete. She was genuine.
My responses didn’t satisfy. But we shouldn’t expect it to. Not with the way we think of things now.
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