We talk so much in Christianity about the Trinity and how it is the three persons of God, but in western thought we have kind of lost an idea of what the Trinity truly is and the character it has. We have just come to a place that we have accepted the idea, …show more content…
It is not a being, thing or object; rather it is how God acts towards us. It is how God reveals Himself to us and has a relationship with His people. It is a way to be able to talk and understand God, even though words themselves limit God. We cannot talk about God without acknowledging the reality of His persons and who He is, and in order to talk about this idea Christianity developed the idea of the Trinity as a God who is three persons, but indivisible within it. Therefore, you cannot separate any one aspect from another, which is why the Athanasian Creed is so important within the church because it focuses on this very