Second Sunday of Pentecost - Trinity Sunday

There is no explaining theology. Not in a simple way that won't get you into realms of heresy. I have tried for years to explain things like the Trinity but every time I do I slip into trite phrases, convoluted sentences that seem to run on forever, and, well, I'm already starting down that road. But let me show you an example of how difficult it might be. Here is the lead section on Wikipedia about the Trinity:

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity teaches the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead. The doctrine states that God is the Triune God, existing as three persons, or in the Greek hypostases, but one being. Each of the persons is understood as having the one identical essence or nature, not merely similar natures. Since the beginning of the third century the doctrine of the Trinity has been stated as "the one God exists in three Persons and one substance, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." Trinitarianism, belief in the Trinity, is a mark of Oriental and Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism and all the mainstream traditions arising from the Protestant Reformation, such as Anglicanism, Lutheranism and Presbyterianism. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church describes the Trinity as "the central dogma of Christian theology".

This doctrine is in contrast to Nontrinitarian positions which include Binitarianism (one deity/two persons), Unitarianism (one deity/one person), the Oneness belief held by certain Pentecostal groups, Modalism, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' view of the Godhead as three separate beings who are one in purpose rather than essence. ...

Like other terms expressing fundamental Christianity concepts, such as monotheism, the word trinity is not found in the Bible. The doctrine developed from the biblical language used in New Testament passages such as the baptismal formula in Matthew 28:19 and took substantially its present form by the end of the 4th century as a result of controversies in which some theologians, when speaking of God, used terms such as "person", "nature", "essence", "substance", terms that had never been used by the Apostolic Fathers, in a way that the Church authorities considered to be erroneous.

Some deny that the doctrine that developed in the fourth century was based on Christian ideas, and hold instead that it was a deviation from early Christian teaching on the nature of God or even that it was borrowed from a pre-Christian conception of a divine trinity held by Plato (428/427 – 348/347 BC).

Got it? (Test next week.)

But I have a hunch that all this is simply our human way to deal with seemingly irreconcilable paradoxes. God as a human being- even as a tiny, helpless baby. God as a breath of fresh air or a push of strong wind moving across the formless waters. God dying on a cross. God in flames or doves landing on average people making them into something more than they ever thought possible.

Can you put all that together in your mind? Can you keep those contrasting views in the same picture? Can you describe what it means?

Neither can I- so I won't go any further with this and instead let it happen, let it be, let it sink into my soul and go from there.

It's all about God and as I have said here before, I'm not sure I could worship a God who I could explain and understand in my poor, almost useless human language.