So many people seem confused about the trinity. So I am going to try and explain. Have you heard of the triple point of water? This is specific conditions when water can exist as a solid, liquid, and gas all at once. While the water exists in all three forms the gas is not the liquid, the liquid is not the gas, neither the liquid or gas is the solid. They are individual states. However underlying all three forms is the same substance, h20. Regardless of form they are all water and not three distinct types of water. Just three forms of water.
The same is true of the trinity. You have one underlying nature or substance which is God. However God exists in three forms at the same time. He is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. One underlying substance but with three forms, just like water at the triple point. Only 1 God just like there is only 1 water. Yet having three distinct forms that all exist at once.
Make sense?
2007-11-22
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