Trinity Sunday (5)

Trinity

spring waters faith

beginning river faith

WHAT God

Being, Truth, Goodness

Oft unspoken WHO is

One Thing 3 persons: Trinity

CCC 234 “[Trinity] is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the “hierarchy of the truths of faith.””

From this all waters faith flow

signature of this author on all reality

Trinity Sunday

‘no say b/c mystery’ bleh!

BUT mystery DOESNT contradictory/irration

not knowing doesnt make unreasonable

what an ego if say otherwise

Church says all truths reasonable even if some mysterious

Nevertheless:

know by faith somethings of Trinity; and

some fallible evidence from reason

By faith

Personhood +Thingness

3 persons, 1 thing

rock -human - God

since 1 thing, persons ~diff things, yet somehow distinct

How?

CCC 255 “the real distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them to one another”

father, son, spirit only diff by relation to others

real relatives or relativities

principle reality relational and singular absolute truth

typically want one o other

relative or objective truth

Reality only understood in both unified.

[‘Proof’]

Thats central dogma,

BUT

some saints gave proofs Trinity and refuted claims illogical

belief more in revelation than logical demonstration

but at least interesting

St. Thomas proof

know God, Being, Truth, Goodness, but these terms refer to the same meaning and differ only relatively

Conclusion

drink spring all doctrine flows

see reality thru Trinity

relationality and objectivity in all

3 relational persons, one God, Holy Trinity

Notes

Me

of OT

Gen 18. (God appears as 3 persons)

Gen 1,3,11. (God speaks as we or us)

(Elohim, plural for gods or divines and Adonai plural, but always accompanied as singular verbs)

psalm 110 David says: Yhwh speaks to my Adonai (Christ later points this out)

thrice for maximal in hebrew (holy holy holy)

Commentators

CCC

234 “It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them. It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the “hierarchy of the truths of faith.””

239 “He is neither man nor woman”

253 “the term “relation” to designate the fact that their distinction lies in the relationship of each to the others”

255 “Because it does not divide the divine unity, the real distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them to one another”

Pitre

Proverbs word here “create” is “qanah” in Hebrew which means beget (diff from word for create in Hebrew)