This is the story of two people who left comments on a video about the Trinity delivered by a Catholic priest.
I shared the Word of God with the second person.
(“Praised be the Triune God of love… Father, thank you for your homily on the Gospel.”)
(“It’s very difficult. Explaining the Trinity is not easy. Is there not a simpler and clearer way an answer?”)
The way of salvation that God has ordained is so simple that if all the people of this earth heard it,
they could understand and believe.
The only reason they do not understand is that they do not desire it in their hearts.
What the prophets of the Old Testament saw from afar and were convinced of
was the gospel—that Yahweh would become man and rise again from the dead.
“All these died in faith, without receiving the promises,
but having seen them and welcomed them from a distance,
and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.” (Hebrews 11:13–14)
“Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you
made careful searches and inquiries, seeking to know what person or time
the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you,
in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you
by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven things into which angels long to look.” (1 Peter 1:10–12)
Someone once told me that they read the Bible five times a year,
yet no matter how much they read, nothing was truly understood in their heart.
Now, they said, they have begun copying the Bible by hand.
If the God spoken of in the Bible is one,
yet the god one believes is three-in-one in a way different from what Scripture declares,
will understanding come even if one reads the Bible with all one’s strength?
How many can stand honestly before this Word?
“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life;
it is these that testify about Me…
If you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” (John 5:39, 46–47)