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The Trinity is endlessly complex -- sometimes, I'll try and wrap my mind around the idea of God in three persons, united yet separate, and it just makes my brain hurt. It's not the first conclusion anyone jumps to -- but it's where the text leads us. The early church didn't start with the Trinity and work backwards -- they started with the text and worked forwards, and eventually, the Trinity was the only conclusion that could explain where Scripture was pointing. The Trinity allows us explain the ongoing and eternal relationship between God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
It's the best way to understand anything -- we start with the text, and then work our way forward. So often, we want to start with our lives, but then we end up reading things into the text because we want them to be there. It's easy to do so, but Scripture's goal is to give us a source of Truth through which we see the world and our lives, and we can cope with the challenging things in there because we know the story ends in hope and that God is for us! So when we come to hard things, remember that it's rooted in God, which means that it's rooted in eternal love, greater than anything you or I can imagine.
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