Salty Cracker on Nostr: I recently heard an analogy to describe how the Trinity works, and I found it worth ...

I recently heard an analogy to describe how the Trinity works, and I found it worth sharing.

You can think about the Trinity like you do with the sun.

Think about the thing we call "the sun," without any of its attributes that we can perceive.... if we were unable to experience it, it would still exist as a ball of burning gases and nuclear fusion. Its existence does not depend on its attributes or effects. Rather, everything we get from the sun is dependent upon its own existence.
In the Trinity, this would be God the Father.

Now let's consider what directly pours out of the sun: all that light, heat, and radiation. These thing are dependent upon the sun, and would not exist without it. In our perception of the sun, it is seemingly inextricable from what we call "the sun." The sun itself and what flows from it are in effect, one in the same. However they are technically two distinct things, and one's existence is wholly dependent upon the other's.
In the Trinity, this would be God the Son, or Jesus.

Lastly we'll look at the effects the sun has in our existence. We feel its warmth, it brings forth life, it energizes things, it has a demonstrable affect on our mood, etc... These things that the sun gives us are only brought to bear through what pours out of the sun, which is inseparable from the sun itself and also completely dependent upon the sun's existence in the first place.
In the Trinity, this would be the Holy Spirit.

It's not a perfect analogy, and I don't think there is one... but it is the best one I've ever heard.

Shout out to the Bible Project podcast for laying it out.

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