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I Believe
Comments on Galatians with an ear to Luther’s commentary
Scripture Text: Galatians 3:6 and Matthew 28:19
Series: Comments on Galatians
“If you can explain to me how the Trinity is possible, how it works, I will become a Christian,” a follower of Shinto challenged.
The idea of explaining God is ludicrous. We could not even know who God is unless he revealed himself to us. He is beyond our ability to comprehend, let alone explain to someone who seems to want to not believe. Still, time and again, God has revealed himself in Scripture as Trinity. But he did not explain how that works, for he requires faith, not reason.
The best we can do is have faith, believing that God is who he says he is. It is summed up early in the Athanasian Creed. “The catholic faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Essence.” That is the Trinity of “persons” whom we confess in the creed to be God. Reason says this is impossible. Faith says, “I believe.”
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Rev. Dr. Mark E. Ryman has served as Pastor for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury, NC, since 2021. Previously, Pastor Ryman served congregations in North Carolina and Ohio, as well as a call to specialized ministry with Sola Publishing.
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