Theodicy Soteriology, Hermeneutics

TRINITY : M. M. NINAN
monadic God is an imaginary God, an abstraction. It is essentially a singularity of which we cannot
guess or know. The only God we can know must be a real non-singular God. God has to be
complexity within him.
3. Scientific reason
Consider a single particle (in Physics terms) before everything. Will that particle be White? Black?
Good? Evil? We cannot assign any property to it. In other words a single particle or an element alone
cannot exist by itself. Properties are defined in terms of relationships. There has to be at least two
particles to define a relationship. The same applied to God. God has to be complex within him in order
that he may have property and be active.
Objects, molecules, atoms etc have properties because they are complex within themselves.
Scientifically therefore it will not make sense to talk about a monad God existing before anything.
Such a God cannot have any properties and is nonexistent for all purposes. So a real God will have to
coexistent with a complex structure within himself which gives God his characteristics.
4. From Person
Now we go a step further. God is the first cause of all creation. Creation implies purpose. God had
or/and has a purpose. Purpose implies Personality. We therefore consider God as the first cause - not
a principle- not a Force but as a person.
The very fact that God wants to create implies something desirable outside of him. If we define God
as self-existent, omnipotent and complete in every way there is nothing outside of God, which he can
desire or want. So God cannot be the creator God and be a unique single person.
Again we will have a problem defining the concept of Person.
Person is something, which has a direction and purpose. This property is usually termed as Freedom
of will. A person will have freedom of will. He can make choices. Making choices implies that he can
make a choice either A or B. If he is all knowing (Omniscient), he knows what he is going to choose at
every step. Then he himself is predestined and therefore has no freedom to choose. So if we want a
free Omnipotent Person as God, this property of omniscience cannot be resident on one person. God
cannot be a single person and be a sovereign. Omniscience and Sovereignty cannot go together.
They are mutually exclusive if they reside in one person. This problem is solved if we assume plurality
of persons in Godhead in exactly the same way Christianity define trinity - each independent person
with an organic unity forming One God.
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