Unraveling the mystery of the holy trinity

[Artiom8010]

Unraveling the mystery of the Holy Trinity.

God is a Thought. Holy Spirit is Thinking. Christ is a Word or Action.

Unraveling the mystery of Holy Trinity in one sentence: Christ is the ultimate goal of contemplation of a thought. (intellect)

Explanation: Now, to make the unravelling of this mystery more comprehensible to you, let‘s take one practical example.

Example . Carpenter is making a table.

First of all we need to understand that before making a table, the carpenter has to get an image of an idea of a table in his head (God is a Thought). Then he thinks that image over (Holy Spirit is Thinking). And eventually a table is made (Christ is a Word or Action. Christ is the ultimate goal of contemplation of a thought)

 

[Stylites]

Thank you for unraveling and making the mystery of the Holy Trinity more comprehensible to us, but the Holy Trinity ought not be pigeon-holed into mere 'thought-thinking-action."

Certainly all of creation is happening because God is thinking of us, but He is much more than thought.

For us mere mortals, thoughts get in the way of contemplating and reaching God. I’ve heard it said that the mind is like a lake, and the thoughts are like waves or ripples upon its surface. The ripples scatter the Light, but once the lake becomes calm then it is able to reflect the Light perfectly.

 

[laszlo]

The mystery is mystery because we cannot undestand it, it is above us.

My favorite approach to the Trinity is:

God knows Himself perfectly, this knowledge is perfect He is the Son. The Father and the Son love each other, this love is perfect, He is the Holy Spirit.

 

[GloriousOrder]

S. Augustine tried very hard to make the Father a Thought, the Son One Word, and the Spirit the Love that binds the two (like a nervous system), but we cannot think like that. He was taking the Roman legalistic tradition to its very height: applying law, formula, and distinction to God Himself. Let us never hope to unravel the mystery of the blessed Trinity. We don’t even know the mysteries of our own human bodies, yet, nor can we pierce our own consciences most of the time. How much more should we let God have His interior “privacy” of generation?

I often think that trying to define, unravel, and understand the blessed Trinity is like looking in on someone through a keyhole while they’re changing clothes. We have no right to look in at a person doing that, and God is in such an intimate act of perfect love, relationship, and community within Himself that we cannot possibly spy on Him. What a voyeuristic and sacrilegious thought! I will be happy to know the blessed Trinity’s interior union when He invites me into His mansion and shows me the bridal bed…

 

[laszlo]

I often think that trying to define, unravel, and understand the blessed Trinity is like looking in on someone through a keyhole while they’re changing clothes. We have no right to look in at a person doing that, and God is in such an intimate act of perfect love, relationship, and community within Himself that we cannot possibly spy on Him. What a voyeuristic and sacrilegious thought! I will be happy to know the blessed Trinity’s interior union when He invites me into His mansion and shows me the bridal bed…

A saint (may be St Anselm) was thinking about the Holy Trinity had seen a child at the shore of the Ocean, who with a spoon dipped the water to a little hole.

What are you doing, child.

I dry the Ocean.

At that moment the saint realized that he cannot understood the Trinity.

However there is an other point. The child get a spoonful of the water every time, he dipped the spoon there. So do our meditations.

 

[GloriousOrder]

I believe that story was St. Augustine, laszlo. He called the child a fool for trying to drain the ocean into a small pit on the beach, but realised that he was doing the same thing with the blessed Trinity.

 

[SunnaB16]

Unraveling the mystery of the Holy Trinity.

God is a Thought. Holy Spirit is Thinking. Christ is a Word or Action.

Unraveling the mystery of Holy Trinity in one sentence: Christ is the ultimate goal of contemplation of a thought. (intellect)

Thats a bit misleading: The Father is the Thinker; the Son is the Thought in the Mind of the Thinker (the Thinkers Self-Knowledge); the Holy Spirit is the Love between Father and Son: laszlo`s one-liner in slightly different words.

The Father is perfect, infinite and eternal, and possesses the fullness of the Godhead.
The Son possesses the fullness of the Godhead because Everything that the Father is is contained in His Self-Knowledge.
The Holy Spirit possesses the fullness of the Godhead because Father and Son give Themselves totally (perfectly, infinitely and eternally) to Each Other.

Frank Sheed`s book: “Theology and Sanity”, published by Ignatius Press, devotes more than 30 pages to the Myatery of The Blessed Trinity. Those 30+ pages are a good (but heavy!) read.

There`s nothing wrong with probing the inner Life of God: He wants us to do just that! As Frank Sheed says: “The Lover [God} wants to be known by His beloved [ourselves].”. Intimacy with God.

Understanding something about Gods inner Life makes it easier for us to accept the Churchs teachings on marriage and family life, the relationship between Christ: the Bridegroom and His Bride: the Church, and every other aspect of His undefiled (pre-angelic rebellion/pre-Fall) creation. All of Creation ultimately reflects the inner Life of God.