Dear Christian friends:

What do you know about God? What is He like? Many answer, "I don't know. He is too great, too deep for me. I can't understand Him. I'm afraid of Him." Do you love God? Does He love you? Many say yes, but they are not sure.

Yes God is very great and high and far above our knowledge and understanding. We will never know everything about Him in this life. Even in heaven we will never fully know and understand His greatness and goodness. But we need to know some things or we can't love:


The Bible teaches there is One God. "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord." (Deuteronomy 6:4-15) Hindus have many Gods and Greek mythology also as well as many others.

Yet three persons in this One God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Jesus said, "I and my Father are one." (John 10:30) "That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." (John 5:23-24)

The Anthanasian Creed explains it very beautifully: "Father eternal, Son eternal, Holy Spirit eternal; and yet They are not three Eternals but one Eternal." The Father is almighty, the Son is almighty, and the Holy Spirit is almighty. Analogies in nature to the Trinity: The Sun, Orbit, light and heat yet one sun. Man, Body, mind and spirit, yet one Man.

So why bother teaching about the Trinity, such a hard and deep teaching? Some think it makes no difference Bishop Pike, and others. But if we give up that teaching we also lose Jesus Christ our Savior. You cannot have the right faith in Jesus Christ if you deny the Holy Trinity. Our Savior must be God or we can't be saved.

Why did the Jews refuse to believe in Jesus? He said He was the Son of God, that He came from heaven, and lived before Abraham etc.

Why let the deep teaching of the Trinity bother us? There are many other things about God we can't understand. Eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent. Infinite like space. There are many things in nature we can't understand also. The secret of life, cancer, etc. Yet we believe it and use it. We should expect God to be greater than ourselves or He would be a very poor God.

Let us humble ourselves before Him and His Holy Word and like children believe what He says and teaches although we cannot fully understand it.

Let us say with reverence and praise like Paul, "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen." (Romans 11:33,36)