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The Blessed Trinity is like ice, water, and steam; Different stages/species, types etc. but they are still in the same field as water.
The doctrine of the Trinity is consistently among the first of those teachings to be banefully attacked by the opponents of the historic, Christian faith. Cultists and religious devotees of multitudinous persuasions come against Trinitarianism with a venom uncommon in most other arenas of doctrinal controversy. Missionaries for the Mormon church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Islam, for example, often receive training in specific methods targeted at “refuting” the Trinity.
Why is this? Why all the hubbub? What is so threatening about a doctrine which some would care to deem merely “academic,” “heady,” “too speculative,” “contradictory” or “confusing”? The answer is really quite simple: If the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is not true, then Jesus Christ is not Who He said He was, namely, God the Savior. But if it is true, resistless logic points to the inescapable conclusion that Jesus Christ is indeed, the logos sarx, the Word in human flesh Who “made His dwelling among us” (John 1:14). Enemies of the Holy Trinity know that if the fabric of Trinitarianism can be torn down, then Jesus was but a mere man, perhaps a prophet at best, but certainly not the Theanthropos, the Godman–100 percent man, 100 percent Deity (Philippians 2:5-7) as the Bible and the historic creeds of Christendom affirm. And if Christ was not these things, then He did not render sufficient satisfaction for our sins by virtue of His death and on the cross and victorious resurrection three days later. Indeed, as Paul affirms, “if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins” (1 Corinthians 15:17). If the Trinity is not true, then Christ is not God the Son resurrected and, plain and simple, Christians worldwide are worshipping a dead man. So how important is the Trinity and its defense? I’d say it doesn’t get more important than this!
The doctrine of the Trinity is consistently among the first of those teachings to be banefully attacked by the opponents of the historic, Christian faith. Cultists and religious devotees of multitudinous persuasions come against Trinitarianism with a venom uncommon in most other arenas of doctrinal controversy. Missionaries for the Mormon church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Islam, for example, often receive training in specific methods targeted at “refuting” the Trinity.
Why is this? Why all the hubbub? What is so threatening about a doctrine which some would care to deem merely “academic,” “heady,” “too speculative,” “contradictory” or “confusing”? The answer is really quite simple: If the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is not true, then Jesus Christ is not Who He said He was, namely, God the Savior. But if it is true, resistless logic points to the inescapable conclusion that Jesus Christ is indeed, the logos sarx, the Word in human flesh Who “made His dwelling among us” (John 1:14). Enemies of the Holy Trinity know that if the fabric of Trinitarianism can be torn down, then Jesus was but a mere man, perhaps a prophet at best, but certainly not the Theanthropos, the Godman–100 percent man, 100 percent Deity (Philippians 2:5-7) as the Bible and the historic creeds of Christendom affirm. And if Christ was not these things, then He did not render sufficient satisfaction for our sins by virtue of His death and on the cross and victorious resurrection three days later. Indeed, as Paul affirms, “if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins” (1 Corinthians 15:17). If the Trinity is not true, then Christ is not God the Son resurrected and, plain and simple, Christians worldwide are worshipping a dead man. So how important is the Trinity and its defense? I’d say it doesn’t get more important than this!