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Originally Posted by aron
"Well it's a mystery". Why even write words then if they have no meaning?
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They have meaning. You just don't understand the meaning yet. And are possibly looking in the wrong direction for answers.
You can just as well be talking about someone who says, "Light is a particle and light is a wave." Science tells us light has characteristics of both. But the two are incompatible in our conceptualization. Perhaps the problem is that we really don't understand what "particle" and "wave" really imply.
The problem is not that such statements are absurd, but that we don't understand what they are are actually implying. Sometimes words and ideas fall short to describe phenomenon that we have few points of reference for. For example, four dimensions are possible. But we can't visualize four dimensions.
I think one reason the Trinity is such puzzle for some is that they are looking in the wrong places for answers. They try to figure it out in spatial terms, when it is really explained, I believe, in
relational terms. God is not spatial. Everything he is about is about persons and relationships. When we say the Son is at the right hand of God we mean he shares God's throne of authority, not that he is physically sitting there. When we say the Son is walking among the lampstands, we mean that he is closely concerned for them, not that he's actually walking around.
When I started to picture the Trinity from the perspective of a self-conscious person who has a relationship with himself, it began to make much more sense to me.