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In Lewis Carroll’s novel "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland", he tells the story of a young girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world.
At one point in the story, Alice says: “There’s no use trying, one can’t believe impossible things.” But the Queen disagrees with Alice, saying: “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
How many impossible things have you believed today? Logic tells us that the Trinity is an impossibility—how can there be three distinct persons in one God? Logic tells us that it is impossible for a virgin to conceive a child or for an ordinary piece of bread to become the body of Christ. Logic might even tell us that it is impossible for the eternal, divine, Holy Spirit to live in human hearts.
But all these points only serve to show the limitations of human logic when it comes to the realm of faith. Put simply, sometimes we just have to take Jesus at his…
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