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A Trinitarian worldview is a revealed worldview, a perspective that comes to us as personal knowledge, which is granted to us by grace.

Psalm 19:1-6 reminds us that God is not stingy in revealing himself!

Why should Christians alone be required to render the inscrutable scrutable?

everyone faces mystery ... and all men cannot overcome the fact that they live by faith.
Ludwig Wittgenstien: ' If you are not certain of any fact, you cannot be certain of the meaning of your words either.'
and
'If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.'

The truth of the Trinity requires us to accept what we cannot fully comprehend. Why should that be thought so extraordinary? There is no branch of knowledge, be it physics or biology or history or literature, that does not confront us with paradox in some form or other. Why should the Christian doctrine of God the triune Creator be any less difficult to state and comprehend ...?

What are our grounds for believing God to be Triune?
a) the Bible ['Unless a person believes that the Bible is revelation from God Himself - inscripturated truth - there could be no compelling reasons for believing in a mystery so sublime']
b) Jesus ['To know Jesus is to know Him to be God the Son. Because we believe in Him, we receive His testimony about the Father and the Spirit.']

Two propositions: Jesus is my Saviour and Only God can save. The inescapable conclusion was reflected in the faith of the first Christians: Jesus is Lord (1 Corinthians 12:3).