How can I answer my children's questions about God's omnipotence and the trinity?

When talking to our kids about how God is different from us, we need to be careful not to make our children feel far away from God by explaining these differences in a way that makes it impossible for them to relate to or comprehend. Instead, we can focus on how God's differences benefit us and make him all the more wonderful, powerful, and available as a loving Father.

It's important to cover three very basic facts about God to begin with: first, God has no beginning and no end; he has always existed and always will. Second, God created everything that exists, and nothing that exists came into existence apart from him. Third, there's no other God; he's the only one.

We all, at some point in our lives, struggle to try to make sense of these three facts about God and about other ways in which God differs from us. Our thoughts seem to trip over themselves as we wrestle with understanding these concepts.

It's certainly reasonable for our minds to spin a bit when thinking of these things. But it's not reasonable to conclude that because we have trouble comprehending or proving them, God can't be real.