How can God be one and three? How can Jesus be God and yet not another God? And what about the Spirit, where does he fit in?

In the last episode of Thinking Theology, we saw that God promised in the Old Testament that a day would arrive when he would come in person to save his people and be with them. But astonishingly, that happened in the coming of the man Jesus. Jesus did all the things that only God himself does like creating the world, miracles and forgiving sins. Jesus showed himself to be God, distinct from the Father. But how does that work?

That’s what we’re thinking about in this episode of Thinking Theology. We’re thinking about the Trinity—one God in three persons.

Who is Jesus? The identity of Jesus lies at the very heart of Christianity. But what is it about Jesus that’s so important?

In the last episode we looked at the problem of sin. God made the world good. He made a world without death and decay. He made a world in which humanity could dwell with him in love and fellowship, ruling over and developing God’s world under him. But the world is not like that anymore. It’s broken. And the reason it’s broken is because human beings have sought to rule themselves and God’s world without God. We’ve tried to get rid of God.

The result is judgement, which is seen immediately in death and decay, and in a world groaning under the wrath of God. But ultimately, the result is eternal separation from God.

So what’s the solution? The solution, quite simply, is Jesus. And not just what Jesus has done, but who he is.

But who is Jesus?

That’s what we’re beginning to think about this episode of Thinking Theology.

What is sin? Where did it come from? How has it affected us as human beings? How has it effected the world in which we live?

In the last episodes of Thinking Theology we saw that God created human beings. He created human beings to reflect him, to rule over the world under him. He made us to relate to him. But things are no longer as they were created to be. Our world is broken and we are broken.

But what happened to get us from there to here?

That’s what we’re thinking about in this episode of Thinking Theology.