This actually went up yesterday for Trinity Sunday, but there was already a lot being posted yesterday:

Intentionally or not, this charmingly surreal fable illustrates an important truth: when dealing with a higher nature than oneself, one will necessarily encounter seeming contradictions and mysteries. It would indeed be a strong grounds for suspicion if one didn’t. A less abstract and less extreme example of this would be if you imagined trying to explain the concept of money to your dog: for all his virtues, the good woofer would have no capacity to understand what you are talking about (though to be fair, it’s a concept many humans have trouble with as well).

 The Holy Trinity, being the inner life of God, must by hypothesis be the supreme mystery; incomprehensible to us. The angel who met St. Augustine on the beach in the guise of a child likened his efforts to understand this most sublime of dogmas to trying to pour the ocean into a small hole in the sand.

 This is one of the essential difficulties in speaking of the things of God. If God be real, He must, on hypothesis, be immeasurably above us. Which means that we can never comprehend or understand Him. There will always seem to be contradictions, snares, and things that just ‘don’t make sense’. Which means that it will always be possible – if not strictly logical at least intellectually feasible – to argue against His existence.

So, on the one hand, if God could be explained in such a way as to seem perfectly clear and rational, then that would be strong evidence that what we were describing wasn’t God. On the other hand, anything above our own nature must seem strange and incoherent to us in many ways, so that the intelligent Atheist will never lack for apparent contradictions and intellectual knots when he wants to dismiss the idea.

Read the rest here.