Understanding The Mystery Of Trinity In The Human Level

Author: Walter Nuñez

Eureka! I think I have found a better way to bring down the mystery of the trinity of God into the level of human understanding, that is, by way of analogical reasoning, which, by the way, we can easily relate into and identify. But first before wading through the jungle of ideas, let me  disabuse the prevailing misconception in order to clear the coast that a mystery is incapable of being understood as has been widely upheld. Although, I must admit that a mystery cannot be fully understood in all its entirety but, nonetheless, it affords some partial and limited understanding.

The reality of God existing in three Persons: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit can be effectively compared with the three states of the substance “water.” Water comes in three states: solid, liquid and gas. But despite of whatever states it’s in, the essence or, for want of a better term, its chemical composition which is a composite of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, remains essentially and chemically the same.

On the other hand, we cannot infer that just because water comes in three states then we conclude that there are “three waters”. In the same way, that the mystery of the trinity of God: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit cannot be taken to mean as there are three distinct Gods. Like water in its manifold states: solid, liquid and gas, the trinity of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, may not, after all, be at odds with human reasoning. Since, it has found its validation through the events in nature in the light of natural reason.