[Serious] The Trinity

[zwanzig]

1. The three corners of a triangle. They are perceptually distinct and yet indivisible from each other. All three are the same triangle.

We're talking about something more complex than a triangle and it's corners. "Distinct" means what? Different personalities, individual thoughts, separate souls? What is the form that they're all a part of? You know, the "triangle" in this metaphor that connects all three together in one shape. Do they occupy the same space? Are they all connected in one form like the three headed dog, Cerberus? Does your God have three people in his head?

2. A person looking at three mirrors. There are three perceivable reflections, and each image provides a unique perspective, but all are still the same being.

This is weird. Because if each member of the Godhead is just a reflection of the same thing, then why is it three? I don't go around turning in front of people referring to "this is my right side and...this is my left side...and this is my front side."

It's as I said, in order for you to break it down for me, you have to simplify it so much that it changes what it is. We're talking about God. Is Jesus Christ simply his right angle and the Holy Ghost his left? Do they both occupy no other space other than an illusory picture that can only be viewed from outside himself? Or do both of his reflections have different personalities and individual minds?

If the God represented by the Trinity has a cosmic personality disorder, I'd still consider it polytheistic because each gets a separate representation in the lore. If it is all just metaphor and each are just facets of the one God's personality, then the Trinity is broken.

Ambiguity means you cannot draw a conclusion. Taking it as a no is as incorrect as taking it as a yes. I'm not interested in dishonesty. I'll save the remainder of my conversation for Five's respose.

Hrm. I meant for my last statement to be my concluding statements on this topic, but alright. I feel like you and I in your two new metaphors, are not seeing the same things or defining the terms in the same way.