Can you fully understand the Blessed Trinity?

Answer 1

A:This should be no problem. Hinduism also has a godhead that is three gods in one. And the ancient Egyptian syncretism of its gods was far more complex than anything imagined in the Christian Trinity. The Church describes the Holy Trinity as a mystery, often continuing with an explanation that only serves to make the Trinity seem more difficult to understand. But, I have no difficulty in understanding the concept of the Holy Trinity, so for me it is not a mystery. The Blessed Trinity is simply understood as three persons in one God: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

What could be hard to understand is why the Church took so long to decide that the Holy Trinity was an explanation for God. The earliest known proponent of the Holy Trinity was Tertullian, a Latin theologian who wrote in the early third century. The new concept gradually gained adherents throughout the third century but also faced opposition, particularly from Arius, a popular Libyan priest at the beginning of the fourth century. The Trinity was adopted as Christian doctrine at the Council of Nicaea in 325, but the Church remained divinded until Emperor Theodosius made belief in the Trinity a requirement for all Christians, around 380 CE.

The Blessed Trinity supposedly has scriptural support in the 'Johannine Comma', 1 John 5:7-8 ("For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."), but that passage was never in the early Greek manuscripts. It appeared in the Latin translation of the fifth century, after the Trinity doctrine had been accepted by the Council of Nicaea.