The Triune God: a Brief Explication
(The simple necessity for the Trinity from the standpoint of man’s salvation explained plainly for the common man and scholastic gloaters.)
God, being love and existing eternally, must necessarily exist in two persons. There must be at least one subject of love and one object of love. The Son, in order to save fallen humanity (those creatures of His image in need of rescue), had to die in payment for the penalty for their sin so that they could live. The Son’s true death would have left the Father alone, a non-God by virtue of the absence of second person to complete the existence of God (as necessarily subjective and objective in his being). The would-be impairment was thwarted by the simple existence of the Third person, the Spirit, who co-exists eternally with the Son and the Father. God, then, as necessarily a plurality, was not extinguished by death of the Son. He continued to live (in communion; i.e. in plurality) at the Son’s death, as Father and Spirit.
1 Aug., 2022
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