A quote for pondering

According to John Wesley, the writer Jonathan Swift said that “all those who endeavour to explain the Trinity have utterly lost their way … and have hurt the cause which they intended to promote”. Wesley went on to say, in his sermon on the Trinity, that there were many aspects of the natural world which could not be fully understood – such as the nature of light, and what causes the force of gravity. Why, then, should we worry about not understanding the Trinity? Now to modern ears that’s a dangerous argument. Today we have far more confidence in the power of science to explain the world around us than in Wesley’s time, over 200 years ago. People therefore tend to think that if we can’t explain something, it’s probably not true. So if a religious belief – doctrine - can’t easily be explained, people are far more inclined now than when Wesley was preaching to conclude that there must be something wrong with it. Scepticism starts to prevail over faith.