God as Trinity and our Humanity - The End!

Conclusion

God’s being is inherently relational. His being is dynamic in the eternal movement of love within himself. His being is relational and the distinctness of the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit - is also dynamically and eternally relational, not being able to exist or be defined without the other. We understand God’s deep love for his people by seeing how God loved the world so much that gave of himself to humanity in the form of the fleshly Jesus so we may be reconciled to him (John 3:16).

This has profound effects on our understanding of personhood and community as we see that a trinitarian-shaped community is other-centred, communicative, fair, accepting of diversity and ‘the other’, reconciled to God, seeking others to be and to be reconciled to each other also, with Christ is its head.

There are limits to trinitarian application but clearly God as Trinity is a cornerstone to marking out our personhood and community as the Spirit draws followers of Christ into ontological eternal communion with the Father and Son. In the words of J.B. Torrance:

'To hold out Jesus Christ gives back to people their humanity’.[1]

[1] J.B. Torrance, Worship, 93.