[Cal]

I'm all for awe and wonder. And I think our wondering is okay as long as it is an sincere expression of wonder (as in, I wonder how that wonderful thing works?).

It's when we replace the object of wonder with the conclusions of our wondering that we get into trouble.

I didn't mean to suggest that I had solved the Trinity. It's just we've discussed the subject many times and the Edwards/Piper description was never posted. (Although, I have suggested, via C.S. Lewis, that the Spirit is the relationship between the Father and the Son.)

I just wanted readers to have the benefit of this information.

Before I really started thinking about the Trinity in depth, I could see why there was a Father, and I could sort of see why there was a Son. What I never understood was what the Spirit was for--I mean in God in eternity past before man was created. While the Father and the Son were loving each other, was he just standing around with his hand in his pockets with no point of being? Was he just hanging around until God created man so that then he could get involved with God's economy? This is what Lee suggested--that God's triune-ness was all about his economy with man.

It wasn't until I read what Lewis said about the Spirit being the relationship, the esprit de corps, of the Godhead, that He made sense to me.

This, in turn, showed me that Lee's less-than-satisfactory explanation for why God is Triune should make way for that better alternative.