This is a picture that compares a candle flame in normal gravity to one in microgravity. In earth gravity, convection causes a flame (left) to rise in the cone shape to which we are accustomed. In a microgravity environment, convection has no effect. As a result, the flame (right) of a candle becomes a dome shape. (From http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/sts-107/resourceguide/content/images/summary/images_gallery/flame.html)Depending upon the conditions under which it's viewed, the above candle flame appears to unify from at least three colors into one, yet it's still the same thing. Science is wonderful, isn't it?
The "three in one" concept:
The Trinity of God is a concept which many feel is difficult to grasp, however it may be helpful to start with something closer to home, that being ourselves. According to scripture, man was made in the "image of god", to wit, Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Gen 1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Please note that in the above context, either God was speaking in the plural sense (let us, in our) of his own entity, or else He was speaking to one or more others present at that time who was also an "image of God". To take the last words of the above paragraph literally, one would also have to suppose that God is also both "male and female", as both beings were created "in his own image". Although that may shock or distress many of some faiths, of the dozen or so translations of Genesis 1:27 provided by the above referenced link (if you then click on "V"), they all read the same in this respect.
As humans, we often tend to express our wellbeing in terms such as "mind, body and spirit", each being considered for separate aspects of health, THREE correlative conditions that combine to make each of us ONE human being - mental, physical and spiritual. It could therefore be said that we are a form of "trinity" in a more humble sense, the "image of God".
Any of these three aspects may have it's own strengths or weakness within an individual, however, the ideal is that we seek a balance of all three, mind, body and spirit for a complete picture of health as each will tend to reinforce the other. This is important regardless of the particular brand of spiritual strength one chooses to work with so long as it does not become a destructive force in your life or is otherwise cast into sudden doubt resulting in a loss of faith and loss of spiritual health. In this there is something to be said (one way or the other) for keeping within a family tradition or at least continuing to search for that solid faith you can hold onto regardless of what's happening with the physical world around you.
How then, unless the above suppositions are flatly denied, does anyone even remotely familiar with the multiple nature of human beings manage to deny that a similar manifestation could be present for an all powerful God, unless that person's position is to simply deny that God exists at all? For a discussion on the Trinity as most Christians recognize God, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity and http://everystudent.com/forum/trinity.html?OVRAW=Trinity&OVKEY=trinity&OVMTC=standard
Please note that in the above context, either God was speaking in the plural sense (let us, in our) of his own entity, or else He was speaking to one or more others present at that time who was also an "image of God". To take the last words of the above paragraph literally, one would also have to suppose that God is also both "male and female", as both beings were created "in his own image". Although that may shock or distress many of some faiths, of the dozen or so translations of Genesis 1:27 provided by the above referenced link (if you then click on "V"), they all read the same in this respect.
As humans, we often tend to express our wellbeing in terms such as "mind, body and spirit", each being considered for separate aspects of health, THREE correlative conditions that combine to make each of us ONE human being - mental, physical and spiritual. It could therefore be said that we are a form of "trinity" in a more humble sense, the "image of God".
Any of these three aspects may have it's own strengths or weakness within an individual, however, the ideal is that we seek a balance of all three, mind, body and spirit for a complete picture of health as each will tend to reinforce the other. This is important regardless of the particular brand of spiritual strength one chooses to work with so long as it does not become a destructive force in your life or is otherwise cast into sudden doubt resulting in a loss of faith and loss of spiritual health. In this there is something to be said (one way or the other) for keeping within a family tradition or at least continuing to search for that solid faith you can hold onto regardless of what's happening with the physical world around you.
How then, unless the above suppositions are flatly denied, does anyone even remotely familiar with the multiple nature of human beings manage to deny that a similar manifestation could be present for an all powerful God, unless that person's position is to simply deny that God exists at all? For a discussion on the Trinity as most Christians recognize God, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity and http://everystudent.com/forum/trinity.html?OVRAW=Trinity&OVKEY=trinity&OVMTC=standard
