Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Trinity: What is a normal God?

"Christians believe God was in a Womb!"
This is one of the kinder things Muslims say about the incarnation of Jesus.

Muslims and people from that culture find it very difficult to accept God as a trinity, while people who have grown up in the west typically have no such problems.
My own view is this: you should really have no particular expectations as to what God is like.  When it comes to things we see in everyday life we can make statements about what we can expect.  We can say that tossing a coin 10 times in a row and getting 'heads' is not normal.  A person with more than 5 fingers, that is not normal either.  We see the result of coin tosses. We see hands all the time, so we know what to expect.  But how many gods have you seen lately?  How would you know what is normal?  You really have no idea what God is like.

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