How can you explain Matthew 24:36?
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The Trinity, simply because it gets at the very heart of God's being, is essentially outside the grasp of human explanation: Theology, philosophy, metaphysical exploration all fall short. And yet we must try.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. - Proverbs 25:2
One way to think about the Trinity is to start with God as having infinite, eternal, perfect integrity. Because His integrity is perfect, there is no ontological difference between who He is, what He says, and what He does. Because He is infinite, each of the three are fully God. Because He is eternal, each of the three have always been.
The Father is who He is; The Son (Logos) is what He says; The Spirit is what He does (or how He does it)
This conception also allows for the theological ideas of the procession of the Son and the spiration (or second generation) of the Spirit as exemplified in Jesus' statement (there are many such statements):
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. - John 14:26-28
The Father is not more God than the Son or the Spirit but has primacy in the order of eternal procession. In this way, though the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God (1 Cor. 2:10) there is no requirement for the Spirit to a-priori know all things.
It is quite all right for the Father to know something that the Spirit does not.
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