A good friend has remarked that my article infers that the Trinity was proposed as an explanation with the modern difficulty with God's actions in the physical world. He is right, it was not. It is interesting though, that the doctrine is more useful that its originators had thought.

The question is: How does God work in the world!

Judging by the majority of replies above, he doesn’t work in the world at all, since that majority scoff at the mere idea God exists at all.

So this question only applies to believers. That particular group of believers can be further dissected into two categories, those that truely believe, and those that proffer their religion as a status symbol of goodness, and are not actually true believers in the real sense.

It was customary in early history, to look for symbolic representations of Gods hand in daily life, through signs of his will and wish. Superstition.
Thankfully, the modern world has moved into the enlightened age of reasoning, mostly using science, particularly of physics, to sort out the confusion superstition caused, and to explain previously inexplicable phenomena such as volcanics, plagues, pestilences and weather events.

So what is left? The true believer. They are identifiable to God alone, since that condition requires the alignment of harmony between another triad, the body the sole and the spirit, which is connected to the will of God.

That roughly answers the question in the Christian sense.

Dan

Saw a picture the other day of a mother telling her upset little daughter "your imaginary friend is not real" !
The next photo showed them both sitting in church, mother with bowed head & little daughter looking perplexed !

Bazz,
Is the author still around ?

Individua; Yes for now. he sometimes has a Youtube debate with an imman.

Well, one can see Satan's hand in many of today's outcomes and some of the foregoing commentary? Dan's unrequited hate is inspired by the latter, in my view.

Therefore, it then follows that the God of unconditional love also exists? And is everywhere present!

While life may not be a bowl of cookies for many right now?

They are where they are meant to be and in a situation, they've earned somewhere at some time? And may need to return time and again to absorb the lessons life is laying on them.

Albeit, there is a finite limit to all those second chances to be a good person for no other reason than, it is the right thing to aspire to be!

When you are on the bottom? Say as a 78-year cripple and on your own (over twenty solitary years now) and housebound! The only way left is up! And what doesn't kill you? Only makes you stronger!

At life's end, there will be a day of judgment for all! And that judge the hardest judge of all! That judge is the guy or gal you see in the mirror and the only one who knows everything you've done, including what is in your heart! The latter is what really matters!

I say this as a returning eyewitness!
Alan B.