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Give me your best way (or should I say the best way) of explaining the trinity.
I seem to have a hard time explaining this to muslims.
I seem to have a hard time explaining this to muslims.
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Slice an apple down the center, and you see the skin, the pulp, and the seed. They're all parts of the apple, yet when you look at the whole, you see an apple. Same with the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.Originally posted by In His Grace:
Give me your best way (or should I say the best way) of explaining the trinity.
I agree that most analogies when taken to logical conclusions are incorrect analogies of the Trinity bordering on heresy. However, they are useful as small glimpses into the mystery of the Trinity.Originally posted by Humblesmith:
Most analogies break down and shouldn't be used, such as ice/water/steam. Even the best analogies don't work exactly, since nothing is like God.
Believing God is a God of division I believe the equation of One divided by One divided by One = One could fit. I cannot find where God will add to Himself or multiply, but He has divided Himself for us. And the Word became flesh. The “Comforter” is sent.Originally posted by In His Grace:
Give me your best way (or should I say the best way) of explaining the trinity.
I seem to have a hard time explaining this to muslims.
Originally posted by tinytim:
I think that the reason we cannot understand the Trinity is because we live in a diminsion that has both space and time. God created them, so He can exist without both.
The properties of time are that things happen in sequence. There is past, present, and future. God exists in eternity where time does not. Therefore God transcends past, present, and future.
Combine with this the properties of space where matter and anti-matter is needed. God does not need space to exist. He existed before He created space. Therefore He can be 3 persons while at the same time 1 person.
oops, I used a property of time, I said "same time" .
Ok, I give up, He just is!!!
It is easy to follow, but we have anotehr problem. The biblical idea of the trinity is that there are 3 distinct Persons while there is one God in essence/substance. Modalism says that God just "appears" in different modes/roles. So the trinty has a bit more to it than just that.Originally posted by webdog:
I like the analogy that Barbara Bush is:
The First Lady
Wife
Mother
Three separate roles...but the same person.