Doghouse

Credit where credit is due

This little guy has been missing any meals.



Why the salamander? It's a TenNepal trademark. I put it here instead of sending him flowers.




I have been critical of Doug TenNepal's politics for a good long year, but occasionally he comes out with something appreciable. In the interest of fairness that needs to be pointed out.

His post today at tennepal.com on a Trinitarian God is a good one. God is inherently relational within God's own Self and seems to desire that we participate in that. Why? God only knows.

But we ourselves mirror this Trinitarian-ness. We are an indissoluble and mysterious trinity of mind, spirit and body. No scientist has ever been able to explain where one starts or leaves off in relation to the others.

There are many other examples, and I encourage you to look for three-patterns in relationship because we have become all-too Greek minded and dualistic. Yahweh (er, God) often reveals Himself in dualistic ways, but also not. There is a lot of room for mystery after reading the Bible. Trinity is a good example in that there is no overt doctrine taught about it in scripture. It's a later extrapolation from biblical texts by people who felt the need to "explain" the unexplainable (as Beuchner says, God trying to explain God's own self to us is like you or I trying to explain humanity to a "little-necked clam").

Well, I happen to buy into their explanation and extrapolation. It's a fine piece of "inferred theology" (as opposed to "stated thelogy"). And a Trinitarian God is both something we would not project, yet ever-more expansive. To hone in on TenNepal's bead, it is simply more "poetic". And poetry is not necessary...it's just truth and grace.

posted by Obi-Mac BakDon @ 5:56 AM