A Guide for the Perplexed: Three Incomprehensibles

From prolific philosopher-theologian Keith Ward’s God: A Guide for the Perplexed:

[The so-called Athanasian creed] is usually not now said in churches. One reason for this is suggested by my own experience—the last, and only, time I tried to get an Anglican congregation to recite it aloud in church. When they got to the phrase, “the Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible... and yet there are not three incomprehensibles”, they all burst out laughing. The whole thing was just too incomprehensible, and so the Trinity still seems to many people.

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Author: Dale Tuggy

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Bible reference(s): Matthew 28:19, John 1:1-3, John 1:14, John 1:18, Joh 10:30, Joh 17:3, Joh 20:28, 1Co 8:6, Eph 4:6, 1 Tim 2:5, 1 Tim 3:16, 1 John 5:7-8

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