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Originally Posted by OBW
The better answer is to recognize One God who is Three. Appreciate the leading and filling of the Spirit, the sacrifice of the Son, and the headship of the Father. (Don't bother suggesting what I forgot. We all forgot more than we remembered. These are just examples.) The revelation of the specific things is meaningful in an important way while figuring out how it all fits together is not. That is the reason that there is no doctrine of the Trinity in scripture. We can argue that it is there — just between the lines. But just like the "ground," it isn't really.
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I understand the "don't comment where scripture is silent" motif. At the same time, we do interpret Scripture, and this requires some guesswork. I don't think God begrudges us wondering aloud what the Trinity means. Of course, he wants us to not argue about it.
The Bible reveals that God is three and one. To say there is no doctrine of the Trinity in scripture is somewhat misleading. No orthodox theologian denies that scripture reveals Trinity. Scripture gives us some ideas of the roles of the Three. It says one is the image of the other. It shows the first two in a loving relationship, but seems to leave the third out of this relationship.
I think any thoughtful person would ask, "What does this mean?"
And since the Bible says we are in the image of God, how does that relate to this Three-One being? Are we three-one? If so, how? Body-soul-spirit? Maybe, but that's not quite satisfactory, is it? Is there another way we are three-one? Yes, self, self-image, and relationship between self and self-image. This seems to fit much better into the roles of the Trinity. In fact, the parallels are quite striking in many ways. Is that just a coincidence? If so, it's an amazing one, and so probably not.