The Trinity Mystery

The Trinity is a mystery because it is about God, and God is a mystery. 

1 Timothy 3:16   ¹⁶ And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.

God cannot be reduced to human logic. The finite can never fully understand the infinite.  Now we should try to understand all of God that we can, but we will never understand all of God that there is.  God Himself said:

Isaiah 55:8–9   ⁸ “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. ⁹ “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

You see it is not that God is illogical, rather God is beyond logic. 

The great Methodist preacher, John Wesley, once said:  “Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will bring you a man that can comprehend the triune God!”

God has even left us clues throughout this universe of His trinitarian nature.

There are three basic features of this universe.  There is space, matter, and time.  Space is length, breadth, and height.  Matter is energy, motion, and phenomena. Time is past, present, and future.  We even see it in ourselves.  Man is body, soul, and spirit.  Likewise, God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 

Now even though we have clues to the Trinity, the reason it is so difficult to understand and comprehend is because there is no comparison to the Trinity.  There is nothing to which the Trinity can be compared to because God cannot be compared to anything, because there is only one God. 

The infinite will not fit into the finite.  You really can never understand the Trinity, but as one person has wisely said:  “Define the Trinity, you will lose your mind, but deny the Trinity, you will lose your soul.”

You can compare one football player with another one, one singer with another one, one athlete with another one, but you cannot compare God to any other god, for there is no other god except the one God.

Isaiah 40:18   ¹⁸ To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him? 

The infinite will not fit into the finite.  You really can never understand the Trinity, but as one person has wisely said:  “Define the Trinity, you will lose your mind, but deny the Trinity, you will lose your soul.”