an analogy my friend and I came up with...
the Trinity of much of christianity is like a tree with a trunk split into 3, and these splits act in some ways as separate trunks, in some ways as a collective one trunk, and they come together into a single base trunk.
where the Jewish view, (and, at least according to many people, this view is shared by Islam) God is more similar to a perfect, solid stone obelisk. one singular, perfect, undivided "object" of focus. where in the oblisk, there are facets to it, but that these facets are merely different angles of observing it, while it is still absolutley singular.
now to a person who prefers the split tree, and considers it to be "single" as it has a unified nature and a single base trunk, might look at the monolith and not see it to be signifigantly differently monotheistic.
where if one prefers the monolith, then by comparison, the tree would clearly be "more than one".
thoughts?
2007-04-30
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