A Question to Ponder

I am excited by the questions. For example, what is the answer to the question that goes something like this?:

I believe in the Triune God, the Trinity, consisting of the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. The question is, were the Spirit and the Son simultaneously existent with the Father? Or, did the Father preexist. Someone of the Gnostic mind set, tradition or school of thought postulated that the Father, who is so immense in scope (unfathomable, unknown except to Himself) saw His reflection in a pool of some sort, and upon that reflection emanated from Him the Spirit. The Spirit is assumed to be the female representation of God. Together as one, yet two distinct beings, they produced the Son. Now, the Son joins the Father and the Spirit as one being, yet separate personhoods.

OR, indeed, were they always coexistent, as one, never separate? And, if that were the case, how, then, can we say one is Father (Begetter) and the other is Son (Begotten) ?  I mean, let’s go right to John 3:16 KJV:

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Please know, I do not think anyone on earth short of a divine revelation, such as John himself, can know the answer to this. Maybe it is not one of those things Paul was talking about when he said more will be revealed

So, ultimately, if we believe in the Trinity then each element is equal, but how can they be equal if one or the other pre-existed and another is progeny to the others?

Then the next question is how did God come to being? How can any living thing not be created at some point, and we know Him as the Living God. We believe, clearly we can believe, but we do not fully comprehend or understand, that He is THE Creator; always was, always is, always will be.

These are questions to ponder. However, that said, it should not have an impact on our faith. We confess, submit to and otherwise worship God, as we understand Him – to coin a phrase from the recovery rooms. Christians understand God as that Trinity; we accept on faith the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. At the risk of repeating myself – yet again – presently we see through a glass darkly. I can’t help but believe that God enjoys our effort to understand, the fact that we are seeking Him, seeking to go deeper in our relationship with Him and know Him as that friend, as well as Savior, Creator. And King