IS THE TRINITY AN IDOL?
On The Hidden God is a dialogue written by Nicholas of Cusa (a cardinal in the 15th century) which draws into question a huge issue in orthodox Christianity.
Cusa reasons that no name can fully encompass God since God is absolutely infinite. Such reasoning, namely that we cannot fully know God, points a finger directly at two pillars that Christians stand on: firstly, that that the nature of God was revealed in the son of a carpenter in the first century; secondly, that God is a triune being.
The dialogue is rather brilliant and I'm left wondering: by formulating the trinity in the third century (it appears to have no historical reference before then), has Christianity broken the second commandment?
"You shall have no other gods besides Me...Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..."
Cusa reasons that no name can fully encompass God since God is absolutely infinite. Such reasoning, namely that we cannot fully know God, points a finger directly at two pillars that Christians stand on: firstly, that that the nature of God was revealed in the son of a carpenter in the first century; secondly, that God is a triune being.
The dialogue is rather brilliant and I'm left wondering: by formulating the trinity in the third century (it appears to have no historical reference before then), has Christianity broken the second commandment?
"You shall have no other gods besides Me...Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..."
