TCR 163 - The Divine Trinity

TCR 163

I have discussed God the Creator, 
and at the same time the creation, 
and then the Lord the Redeemer, 
and at the same time the process of redemption; 
and now finally the Holy Spirit, 
and at the same time how God works. 
So having discussed God the Three-in-one, 
I must now also discuss the Divine Trinity, 
a subject familiar to Christian people, 
yet actually one they know nothing about. 
For this is the only way 
of acquiring a correct idea of God; 
and a correct idea of God is to the congregation 
like the sanctuary and altar in a church, 
or like a crown on the head 
and a scepter in the hand of a king, 
as he sits upon his throne.
From this hangs the whole body of theology, 
like a chain from its anchor-point. 
If you are prepared to believe me, 
the idea everyone has of God 
determines his place in the heavens. 
It is like the touchstone 
used to test gold and silver, that is to say, 
it tests the nature of 
the good and truth a person has. 
For he cannot have any good 
which leads to salvation except from God, 
nor any truth which does not get its quality 
from the good deep within it.