A Trinitarian God

Like the monotheistic religions who claim that there is one God, Christianity professes the belief that God is one. In fact, in the Creed we Christians state: "We believe in one God". Seen from this perspective our faith shares the same belief of monotheistic religions. On the other hand, the Christian faith presents a God who is not just one but a Trinity. In this respect, it departs completely and is entirely different from other religions, including monotheistic ones. For Christianity to say that God is one is not even the bare minimum of what one has to say about God. God is not simply one. God is Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

In the Christian Creed we also profess: "We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth... we believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God... we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life". Thus, God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three Persons in one God. Such a God is a family of divine Persons, a perfect communion of love and life.

The three Persons give themselves to each other completely. Since love generates life, the greatest result of the love of this Trinitarian God was manifested in the incarnation event, when the Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, became flesh and blood for us and for our salvation. In the mystery of the incarnation, God showed us he is not a God who is removed from us, a God who is our master and we are his submissive servants. No. That is not the God of the Christians. The God of the Christians became man and inserted himself in his creation in order to fulfill and sanctify it by his very presence in the person of Jesus Christ, his Son. In Jesus Christ, we are children of God and brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ, the only Son of God.

By becoming a human being, the Christian God knows what being a human person is all about, what living in this world means and how it feels when one suffers up to the point of death. Yet, the Christian God is still sensitive and caring for all of us, precisely by becoming himself our food and drink every time a Eucharist is celebrated. He becomes our nourishment so that we might have eternal life from this world. This shows that the Christian God is not only removed from us but has become one of us in that his flesh and blood become one with ours when we receive him in the Blessed Eucharist.

The Christian faith has every right not only to claim itself as the true and only faith that leads one to become fully united and saved by God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit but also to be a vehicle of hope and salvation for this broken humanity. In a world where egoism, hatred, religious fundamentalism, retaliation, isolation and indifference have become the rule of the day, no other God, other than the Trinitarian God of the Christians, who is himself a family and perfect communion of love, can give unending hope and eternal life already from this world. Also this God has become and still becomes one of us through the incarnation of Jesus Christ and the latter's real presence in the Eucharist.

The Christian faith has a bright future ahead of it. Although persecuted from other religions and agnostic people, the Trinitarian God is its hope, saviour and life. The political, economical, cultural and scientific arenas are craving for salvation. There is no hope for real salvation other than the Christian God who is himself communion.

The Christian Trinitarian God is the God the world of today needs. Moreover, in the person of Jesus Christ, this one and only true Trinitarian God gives himself to us everyday as food and drink in the Blessed Eucharist in order to change us in him and perfects us on his real self: the Trinity. Let us show our gratitude, love and commitment to this true Trinitarian God by exalting him forever. Let us pray that He enlightens other people to come to know the real faith about God: that God is not just one. God is a Trinity. God becomes a human being in the person of Jesus Christ, both in the latter's incarnation as well as in his real presence in the Eucharist.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end. AMEN.