The Trinity
Over the years I have heard, and I am sure you have too, soooo many different ways of trying to explain the trinity. All of them fall short. Anything and any way we try to explain God will fall short. If we can fully explain God, then well how divine is He then? We will never 100% understand His ways, but we can try and find ways to explain. At the end of the day He is the One who helps us understand and believe that which we should understand and believe.
The below explaining of the trinity I read in a book that a missionary wrote, who was in Afghanistan for several years, until she had to flee the country, in fact her Muslim neighbours asked her to leave as they heard what was being planned for her, and they were fearing for her life.
In the land of Blue Burqas Kate McCord
It is probably one of the best explanations on the trinity that I have heard, but of course it is not perfect. It will also fall terribly short amongst people that believe in nature worship and such like things.
But anyways here goes:
The Trinity is God the Father, God the Son - Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
This can be likened to God the Father being the sun. The light that the sun gives is Jesus, and the warmth that the sun gives the Holy Spirit. It all comes from the sun, but different.
Of course the sun is a created thing by God, but we can use the metaphor to try and explain.
John 16:4 - 15 ESV
