Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 65
The Role of the Holy Ghost 65 tion for believing in paradoxes. It is here that the problem be- comes complicated. I can believe in something that I do not understand, but I cannot believe in something that is contradic- tory in itself, nor I hope, can any other person in his senses. For instance, I cannot understand how a watch is made; that is alright, but I have no right to believe that a watch is simultaneously a live barking and kicking dog. This is not a mysterious dogma, but simply a glaring contradiction. When there is any contradiction between two or more attrib- utes of God, or when there are inconsistencies between the word of God and the act of God, then the limits of mystery are trans- gressed by a large margin and one finds oneself drifting out of the sphere of mystery and into a world of fantasy. When so proved, it is but natural to expect that the believers in contradictions should make amends in their beliefs and accordingly effect a reform in their faith. Unfortunately, however, in our dialogues with some Christian ministers we find them tenaciously holding the view that belief in Jesus as as a god and simultaneously as a man is not contradictory. Nor does it appear contradictory to them that one person can be three persons simultaneously without there being the slightest difference in their character. They insist that to believe in one God and also to believe in a three pronged god- head, composed of God, the Holy Ghost and the Son, is not a paradox but simply a mystery. They shut their eyes to the contradictions in their claim that God remains a single entity despite the fact that the person of God, ‘The Father,’ is distinctly different from the person of Jesus as , the ‘Son’, and the ‘Holy Ghost’. When we point out to them, in