May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all (2 Corinthians 13:14).

It’s Monday, July 16, 1945. It’s 5:30 in the morning. A blinding flash suddenly awakens the sleepy village of Carrizozo, New Mexico. Two minutes later there is a deafening roar. The first atomic bomb has been detonated 35 miles away, and a new age has been ushered in.

Less than a month later, on August 6, President Harry Truman announced to the nation that an atomic bomb had been dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Oddly enough, the code name for the atomic bomb project was Trinity.

Would most people equate the Christian doctrine of the Trinity with the power of an atomic blast? Probably not. Many Christians deliberately avoid the doctrine. “We can’t understand it,” they argue, “and what difference does it make in our lives anyway?” Even Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them, and no man has a distinct idea of the Trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus” (Edwin S. Gausted, Sworn on the Altar of God, 1996, p.139).

Some people say, “The word trinity isn’t even found in the Bible, so why make an issue of it?” But if the silence of the Bible is evidence of nonexistence, then we are really in trouble, for there are many words not found in Scripture that describe things that certainly exist.

But if the silence of the Bible is evidence of nonexistence, then we are really in trouble, for there are many words not found in Scripture that describe things that certainly exist.

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The benediction (or blessing) of 2 Corinthians 13:14 is a trinity of trinities. When we understand what Paul wrote, it will help us to better relate to the Lord we worship and to live a better Christian life in this world.