Another Look at the Trinity

[OBW]

aron,

It was not clear where you were going with that last post. I will start by saying that everything you said it true.

But I am not sure how it interacts with what I was saying.

For example, you quoted Psalm 32:9. Based on this one verse alone, there is an unclear meaning. It could be construed to indicate that we need to know everything. But there is a context. Verse 8 says:

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

It did not say "I will instruct you in the mysteries of God." Instead it was "in the way you should go."

In my life, that would mean "I will instruct you in how you should live. How you should act." I don't need to understand the Trinity to gain that instruction. If I take the leadership of the one I believe (Christ) and the help of the Holy Spirit, together with the instruction provided in the scripture, I should come to understand "the way [I] should go."

It does help to know what the scripture actually says. And it says many things concerning our lives. And concerning Christ. And concerning the Spirit. Each of those is helpful. Devising a construct of the interworking of the Father, Son and Spirit that is more than what is revealed is hardly "profitable for teaching." It doesn't help me in the way I should go. Rather it sends me to "things I should know that do not actually affect the way I should go."

Doesn't mean that the devised understanding is wrong. But it does me no functional good (unless my goal in life is to devise ways to exclude people from my tight-knight fellowship).

We probably are not at odds here. I just couldn't tell what it was about my post that lead to this one.