The Holy Trinity

Same substance, three unique realities. Sounds like you've got the basics. Most people have heard the Shamrock analogy too.

Quote: Wizard

Even in my most religious days, I never had a clear grasp of it. Everybody, but me, claimed to get it, but I'm not so sure they did..

Of course they didn't, there's nothing
to 'get'. If they got it, they could explain
it, and they cannot. The whole point of
it's invention is to make the clergy look
smart and the rabble look and feel stupid.

Look at FrG.

"the Trinity can be explained and is understood by everyone I know."

Aren't they the smart ones! And aren't we
the poor dumb ones who have to look up
to and respect the super smart clergy.

It's all a game of 3 card Monty. They constantly
shift the ball around so you never know where
it is, yet they always know. Trinity is a con, and
it really works. Xtions eat it up like candy, it
makes them feel warm and tingly that their
religion is oh so 'complicated'. lol

3 card Monty, I guess that could be another analogy for the Trinity. No analogy is perfect after all, but good job Evenbob.

The everyone I am referring to is the 2nd graders to the nursing home. It is not only priests. Come on you know this. You know many Christians and many that despise priests (maybe that is where you get it) surely they didn't rely on the likes of me to explain it to them.

Quote: FrGamble

No analogy is perfect after all,

The fact that it can only be
explained with analogy shows
how bogus and specious it is.
Bottom line, trilogy is a lie
concocted by the Church to
give power and mystery to
the clergy. FrG is doing it
right here; everybody he knows
understands and can explain
the trilogy. Aren't we dumbo's
that we don't 'get it'.

Want some entertainment, go
to a page where they try and
explain it. Nobody has the same
explanation, it's a huge cluster
frick of hyperbole and conjecture.

Be careful about curse words, even edited ones. I thought you've said you don't respect people who use them.

Again, this isn't about priests why do you continue to make it so? Analogy is a good way to understand something.

Quote: FrGamble

Analogy is a good way to understand something.

It's a copout way of explaining. Is
explaining flight or an atom bomb
or how a car works only understood
thru analogy? Of course not, we
understand completely how they
work. If trilogy was a real thing, analogy
wouldn't be needed.

As it stands, it's a concocted fairy tale
that is specifically meant NOT to be
understood. There have always been
very smart people, and for the longest
time those people turned their attention
to religion because there was no science
yet, no real science. Trinity is a concept
that was born in very smart and conniving
minds, a way to have dominion over, and
control people. It worked for a long time
and continues to work. You're using it
here whether you realize it or not. But
it's not working, there are no takers.

FrG.... I really don't understand the 'trinity' concept either. Make believe I'm a 3rd grader who asks..... "FrG, I thought there was only one God, indivisible, but you are telling me I'm wrong? Please explain!"

Quote: SOOPOO

FrG.... I really don't understand the 'trinity' concept either.

And you'll understand it even less
once he splain's it..

Quote: SOOPOO

FrG.... I really don't understand the 'trinity' concept either. Make believe I'm a 3rd grader who asks..... "FrG, I thought there was only one God, indivisible, but you are telling me I'm wrong? Please explain!"

A 3rd grader might best understand the Trinity by using St. Patrick's example. Think of a shamrock, it has three distinct leaves but is still one indivisible shamrock. They are all the same plant with three equal leaves.

Quote: FrGamble

A 3rd grader might best understand the Trinity by using St. Patrick's example. Think of a shamrock, it has three distinct leaves but is still one indivisible shamrock. They are all the same plant with three equal leaves.

Where does the stem come into it? Or the roots for that matter?