Is God like water?

Question

Could God be somewhat like water? It could be poured into different vessels. It could be heated and represent the Holy spirit in the form of steam. It could change form and become a solid and could represent Jesus in human form. Do you know other ways to explain the trinity?

Answer 1

No one had ever described God, God can be transformed in whatever form as God wishes. I saw the God once in my dream, it was in a form of beautiful lights that I have never seen before and at a split of a second I saw a resemblance of a smile .....then it vanished..

Answer 2

"Do you know other ways to explain the trinity?"

‘Christ according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the holy Ghost the third. Each of these three persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father and Son, but was an equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say before he existed, but he is of the same age as the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.’

- Col. Robert G. Ingersoll

Answer 3

The way it was explained to me is that it's not 1+1+1=3; it's 1x1x1=1.

ETA: Also that before Jesus, God the Father communicated directly with mankind; then he left, and Jesus came; and after Jesus' ascension, the Holy Spirit descended at Pentecost and is still the part present here today.

Answer 4

a friend and I had a long discussion about this, more in a comparative way...

that the Christian God (trinity) is like a Tree in which the trunk forks into 3 sections, one tree, but 3 "branches"

and in comparison, the Jewish (and I guess, muslims believe in this God Concept as well) God is like a perfect stone Obelisk, absolutely 1, without division whatsoever.

(the facets being different angles of observation)

>>"Yet again, you are one in the same person...AND you are all three."<<

yet I'd be considered nutty if me-the child called me-employee at work and wondered why he wasn't in.. or expected to get an answer...

Answer 5

A another way of looking at the trinity or triunity is to look at 3 circles that are interlocked in the middle. 3 separate entities but all 3 together as 1. 1X1X1=1. They are all God.

Answer 6

That might be fine metaphorically with God as the ocean and all the humans as little streams flowing toward the big Oneness. But not literally. Only as a thought-tool.

Answer 7

Good thought. That seems like a good way to explain the trinity.

Answer 8

I wish I could draw a diagram here, because it's easier with a picture... but anyway...without it.

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Take you for example:

YOU are your parent's child

YOU are your children's parent

YOU are your employer's employee

Three separate jobs and classifications...but all the same person. As your parent's child you are not the parent nor an employee, as your child's parent you are not a child nor an employee, and as your employer's employee you are not a parent nor a child.

Yet again, you are one in the same person...AND you are all three.

Answer 9

A much better explanation: The trinity is contrived nonsense.

Answer 10

I think the water analogy works well. Three separate and distinct "things" with three distinct properties (water vapor, water liquid and ice) but still the same thing .... water.

Also interesting parrellels of Baptisim etc.