{"id":8782,"date":"2020-06-19T00:29:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8782"},"modified":"2020-07-17T13:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T18:31:19","slug":"make-the-trinity-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8782","title":{"rendered":"MAKE THE TRINITY GREAT AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I find the trinity attractive, compelling, and there are desires we all have for community and individual impact that showcase we are created in the image of a triune God. My next door neighbor who is not a Christian said this made sense to him.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our culture emphasizes a faux unity that kills true diversity or a faux diversity that kills true unity. The trinity elevates both in glorious splendor. There is much Christians have to offer our chaotic culture. Sadly, I&#8217;m not convinced many Christians are that interested in having both diversity and unity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sadly, I&#8217;ve found many Christians confused in their thinking about the trinity. Here are five errors I&#8217;ve heard the most in my conversations with a number of Christians:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thinking that the incomprehensible nature of the trinity means I can&#8217;t say anything meaningful about the trinity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thinking the trinity is illogical.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thinking the trinity is impractical.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thinking the trinity is something Christians can disagree about like other unimportant matters such as the proper mode of baptism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thinking the trinity is simply a river in Texas.(HT: To my friend, Helen Reeves!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MAKE THE TRINITY GREAT AGAIN! Hey lawyer friends: Can I copyright that?! \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find the trinity attractive, compelling, and there are desires we all have for community and individual impact that showcase we are created in the image of a triune God. My next door neighbor who is not a Christian said this made sense to him.\u00a0 Our culture emphasizes a faux unity that kills true diversity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","category-trinity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8810,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions\/8810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}