Humanity's Treatment of God

Today is Trinity Sunday in the liturgical year, when the work of the trinity is emphasized.  We acknowledge through the trinity that God was revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--three persons of one substance.

As we acknowledge that God and Christ are one substance, what was done to Jesus when he walked this earth was also done to God.  This represents a profound indictment of our political, social, and religious systems, and reveals the depth of our individual and collective sin.  Rome's judicial process, which it took so much pride in, resulted in the conviction and execution of the God that Rome endorsed when it endorsed the Nicene Creed, from which our orthodox understanding of the trinity ultimately derives.  The Jewish religious establishment concluded that God was a blasphemer, was irreligious, and would not have permitted God from entering locations in the temple in Jerusalem reserved for the priestly class.

God, in Christ, would have received the same reception in every culture and in every age, including ours.  And here we arrive at the foundation of discipleship; a recognition of our depravity and need for redemption.  In order to live under the Lordship of Christ, we must first acknowledge the depth of our need for God's Kingdom and that we enter into God's Kingdom solely through God's grace