I have heard so much discussion around the doctrine of Trinity, debates between Muslims and Christians, and a multitude of proofs and explanations. My only question is "Why does it matter"? I am not saying that it is okay to IGNORE or COMPROMISE on truth. But all truth is not necessary, especially when it can cause one to discredit Christianity - on the sole basis of a "logical fallacy" called Trinity.
I am a Christian and I personally understand the three-person entity and completely believe in the trinity. Although, I have always had the question of why do we need to know or understand this? I know people who do not take a next step when they come across a Christian trying to explain the Trinity. It is kind of like not letting a person ride an airplane because he/she doesn't know how the airplane was made.
Please let me know your thoughts on this. I want to know if I am wrong in thinking that. I just want to know if this doctrine could be a red herring to the argument for Christianity. Jesus is the Son of God and came to bail us out of our mess. He asks us to believe in in One God. He asked us to follow Him and to obey His Father. Isn't that enough to be a Christian?
He never said that we HAVE to know that He was part of a Trinity. God the father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in their own roles fulfill what their purpose is without us having to know how it all works.
I have said this before, and I will continue to repeat it.
If all one needs to do is believe that Jesus is, in some round-a-bout sense, the “Son of God” with disregard of the remainder of things the NT has to say about Him then the authors of the NT wasted their time combating many myths/untruths about Jesus. What would have been the point for Paul, or any other to write entire letters which entail so much detail about the person and being of Jesus Christ, if all that one needs to believe is that He is the “Son of God”?
One must believe that Jesus is the Son of God to the
very extent and in the same light that the Apostles also believed and whom they discuss in so much detail throughout the NT, or else your view of Jesus as the “Son of God” is distorted. You cannot say that you know Christ if you do not truly know Him in the way that Scripture depicts Him. How can you love someone you do not know?
In the salutation of 2 Peter, the author says,
“Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 1.1)
Notice those that he is addressing are “those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours,” and further goes on to address Jesus as “God and Savior.” It seems clear that he is addressing a body of believers that are like-minded in faith, and share together the belief of the divinity of Jesus.