This image, The Shield of the Trinity (which appears in your notes), is my favorite image for explaining the Trinity. No other analogy or picture that I know of does a better (and more accurate) job of taking this difficult concept and making it understandable. Remember it is all about keeping the "what" and the "whos" straight. God is the "what" and there is only one God. However there are three "whos" within that "what". Those three "whos" are co-equal and co-eternal. They are all God, but they are not identical to each other. The Trinity is perfect union, perfect love, perfect relationship ... perfect perfection! It may sound strange to you, but I think the Trinity is unbelievably beautiful and glorious. Any other view of God just falls short.
Some other pictures that have been used in history to explain the Trinity include the triangle (which really doesn't do a very good job at all), the clover (which is not so great because it seems to make it look like each person of the Trinity is simply 1/3 of God), and the Triquetra, which is shown here. The Triquetra is a neat shape; the way the three sides flow into one another does a better job of showing how the Persons of the Trinity indwell and surround each other in perfect unity. I think it looks really cool.
What are your thoughts?
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thought this might be a helpful source for what we talked about today in class : )
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp
That's an excellent link. Answers in Genesis has great information about all topics related to the Bible, science, evolution, etc.
By the way, if anyone posts on here, please use your name instead of 'anonymous' so I know who you are. :)
the Triquetra thingy is the sign that the christian band ApologetiX
uses for their CDs.
(They do parodies of non-christain songs)
I always wondered what that stood for.
Where does the word Trinity come from you said that it is actually not in the Bible?
How have people come up with the diagrams for the Trinity?
Jana! I am glad to hear from you. I have some ApologetiX songs on my computer. They are pretty good.
The IDEA of the Trinity IS in the Bible, but the actual word is not. The word comes from a Latin word for "threefold" or "triple". Notice how it begins with "tri" just like "tricycle" (which has three wheels) and "triathlon" (which has three events).
I don't know how exactly the different diagrams for the Trinity came about. I suppose Christians in the past kept trying to come up with good ways of explaining the idea. No diagram or analogy is perfect, but the Shield of the Trinity does the best job that I know of.
Does that answer your questions?
interesting story for science
http://green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1570
Jonas, that's really interesting. I will bring this up tomorrow in class.
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