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Kay

2009-10-25

To me, projection is particularly problematic in at least some theories of the Trinity because what is projected onto God is immediately reflected back onto the world, and this reverse projection is said to be what is in fact important about the doctrine.

Usually, the theorist’s concept of the Trinity is filled out suggestively with notions borrowed from our own experience of relationships and relatedness. And then is presented as a resource Christian theology has to offer the wider world in its reflections upon relationships and relatedness. Couldn’t very different conclusions be drawn from one and the same understanding of God because of a person’s cultural background and personal relationships?

I seek to know the Lord, as do my fellow believers, but I struggle to understand why it is not sufficient to simply declare HOW God has revealed Himself without moving into making implications of this revelation to the very inner life of Deity. In my view, God is just too OMNI-Everything to nail down, box up, and categorize so neatly in our finite understanding. It is when that move is made from the revelation of the Trinity to proposed implications on the Divine inner life that I question.
Do we really think we can know everything that goes on in the inner life of God?
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways” declares the Lord” “how unsearchable are His judgments, and unfathomable His ways. For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?”

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