A Few Trinitarian Thoughts

I think we often take for granted that when we, as Christians, refer to ‘God’, we don’t have a just generic concept in mind. I think we may take it for granted when speaking to people that when we both, both us and the other person, say “God” we are generally referring to the same type of Being. But this is certainly not the case. Not only do we refer to a different God by what He has done in the course of history (the God who raised Jesus from the dead, for example), but we are altogether referring to a totally different concept of His Essence. When we say ‘God’, we are talking about the Triune God; a God who is not only personal, but Tri-personal; a God who is not only one in some sense, but also three in some sense. And not only do we say that He is tri-personal, but that he is NECESSARILY tri-personal; it couldn‘t be the case that He be different. I also think that the Triune God of the Universe is probably only fully revealed by His activity in and through Jesus. It makes little sense, from my point of view, to talk about the One God that exists without talking about the nature of the God who exists. Since His nature is necessarily Triune, it makes no sense at all to talk about God without talking about Jesus since that's the only way that God is fully revealed to us.