Always attentive to the *ways* the Bible teaches the Trinity. Here's another:
1. Ask *who* knows/does divine thing x (Isa 40:13-14; Rev 5:2).
2. Rule out *all* creaturely candidates (Isa 40:15ff; 1 Cor 2:11; Rev 5:3-4).
1. Ask *who* knows/does divine thing x (Isa 40:13-14; Rev 5:2).
2. Rule out *all* creaturely candidates (Isa 40:15ff; 1 Cor 2:11; Rev 5:3-4).
3. Answer with a *person* of the Trinity, e.g.,: the Lamb of God, the Spirit of God (1 Cor 2:11; Rev 5:5).
What's great is that these are questions that Scripture does not presume we would be able to answer. Scripture asks and answers its own questions!
In one case, Paul quotes a prophetic question (Isaiah) and gives an apostolic answer (1 Corinthians). OT riddles find NT solutions.
We are so dumb. We can't even comprehend God's works, which are a distant revelation of his glorious being. But God is so good that he speaks to us by the very Word that knows his being and effects his works; he teaches us by the very Spirit that searches his eternal depths.
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