theoretical thinking or as an attempt to solve a problem.67 Christians ended up believing in the complicated, mysterious and apparently illogical doctrine of the Trinity because for all its disadvantages, it was the best way of making sense of the account of God in the Scriptures. In Paul’s adaptation of the Shemaʿ, the description of God as Father denotes God’s relationship to his people, and Luke’s version of the prayer that Jesus gave his disciples begins with the simple invocation “Father” (Lk