Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition - Mentor's Guide

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David’s testimony in the little Psalm 131 is a veritable gold mine of insight for us as we seek to delve into the depths of the Lord’s own person: Ps. 131.1-3 – O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. [2] But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. [3] O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore. Let us then assert the plain language of the Bible: God is one. Deut. 6.4 – Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 1 Kings 8.60 – . . . that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other. Isa. 44.6 – Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.” But let us also assert that Jesus is the Word made flesh (John 1.14), and affirm the Holy Spirit as Lord and life-giver to the Church (2 Cor. 3.17-18). Let’s allow the authors of our textbooks to have the last word here: The Church has not hesitated to teach the doctrine of the Trinity. Without pretending to understand, she has given her witness, she has repeated what the Holy Scriptures teach. Some deny that the Scriptures teach the Trinity of the Godhead on the ground that the whole idea of trinity in unity is a contradiction in terms; but since we cannot understand the fall of a leaf by the roadside or the hatching of a robin’s egg in the nest yonder, why should the Trinity be a problem to us? “We think more loftily of God,” says Michael de Molinos, “by knowing that he is incomprehensible, and above our understanding, than by conceiving him under any image, and creature beauty, according to our rude understanding.”

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~ A. W. Tozer. The Knowledge of the Holy. New York: Harper San Francisco, 1961. p. 18-19.

“Glory be to the Father,” sings the Church, “and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.”What is this? we ask – praise to three gods? No; praise to one