At the time I read Robb’s book in 2012, I was not processing the Trinity or analyzing these thoughts. I was just absorbing the rich essence of what Robb was saying as my soul healed knowing that someone experienced the same kind of transformation I was going through. It was great to connect with Robb on Facebook and participate in his blog review book launch.

I think I need to read this book again and analyze it.

Someone asked me to share some thoughts on Robb’s part of the book about the Trinity (which is a large theme in this book). So here are some key quotes that stand out to me now about the Trinity (around location 1914 in Kindle edition).

“For generations Christians have struggled to find the right analogy to help express their trinitarian faith. Many analogies and word pictures have been told and retold in sermons and Sunday school classes. We have been told that the Trinity is like the different states of water (solid, liquid, gas) or like the three parts of an egg (shell, white, yolk). These word pictures just haven’t resonated with me for a long time. But one does now. It is the analogy of a song. To have music, you have to have a source, somewhere from which the music comes. You also have to have a score, the notes that make up the song. And to have music, you have to have the sound. The Father is the source. The Son is the score. The Spirit is the sound. God is one and three, at the same time, but not in the same way.”

“Historic, orthodox Christian theology has always affirmed that the oneness of God refers to a unity in divine essence and purpose. There is one divine character. The attributes of God are shared by all members of the trinitarian community. In terms of essence and purpose, that which can be said about one member of the Trinity can be said of all the members of the Trinity. God is just. God is holy. God is merciful. God is present. God is one. The threeness of God refers to the actions of the members of the Trinity. Each member of the trinitarian community functions in harmonious yet distinct ways. When we unreflectively pray, “Dear heavenly Father, thank you for dying on the cross for us,” or when the logo of our ministry is a dove, symbolic of the Spirit, on a cross, we are failing to recognize the diversity in the unity that is God.”

According to Danaher and others, modernism has caused much of the Church to absolutely believe what they believe to be the Truth, and then applying what they believe on others. They mistake their own conception of belief in the Truth for the Truth. They cling to their own brand of belief with absolute tenacity as though their brand of the truth is the absolute truth and the only truth. This creates Phariseeism that just makes Christianity, Christians and the Church reek with stench, and come across like intolerant, self-righteous, sanctimonious jerks. I know because I lived like this for a quarter of a century!

Such an image of Christians is virtually the opposite of Christ who is always gentle and humble in heart (Mt 11:29), and always condescending himself before others (Phil 2:6-8).