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Delighting In The Trinity: Just Why Are Father, Son And Spirit Such Good News? QUOTES

1 " Wright talks about how, in his role as chaplain, he would talk with students about their beliefs. Many would defiantly announce to him that they did not believe in God. So he would ask them to describe the "God" they did not believe in. Usually, they described a remote, deistic "God". "I don't believe in that 'God' either," he would reply. And then he would begin to talk about Jesus Christ. "

― Tim Chester , Delighting In The Trinity: Just Why Are Father, Son And Spirit Such Good News?

2 " Another form that this tendency to tritheism takes concerns our views of other religions. Some people suggest that non-Christians can genuinely know God apart from Jesus- an idea sometimes called "anonymous Christianity". But the unity of the Trinity means we cannot know God without Jesus. They cannot be divided so that one person of the Trinity can be known apart from the others. "

― Tim Chester , Delighting In The Trinity: Just Why Are Father, Son And Spirit Such Good News?

3 " Consider the alternatives to God being eternally triune. We could say God does not have personal relationships, in which case we have a capacity (for relationships) that the omnipotent God does not have. Or we could say that God in eternity was only potentially personal, in which case relationships are something God adds to Himself, but which are not essentially part of how He is, making God ultimately impersonal. Or we would have to say God needed to create the world to perfect the relational lack in Himself. But if God needed to create the world, then God's love is not gracious (for God then acts out of His inner need) and creation is not free (for creation would have to meet the divine need). So if God is not eternally triune, then "we are left with a lesser God, because we are left with a God for whom personhood is unsatisfied in his essential being for creation". "

― Tim Chester , Delighting In The Trinity: Just Why Are Father, Son And Spirit Such Good News?