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From: melanie@cornell.UUCP
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Subject: Trinity
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 15:25:11 EST
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From: melanie (Melanie Nesheim)


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A friend who has been reading net.religion.christian but
can't post to it directly asked me (Melanie) to forward this to it:


Date: 22 January 85 14:16 EST
Subject:  Article for net.religion.christian (Trinity)
To: MELANIE@CRNLCS.BITNET
     
This is intended to be neither answer nor argument, but simply
a tidbit to share with all.  I was raised in the Catholic church,
and never understood the teaching of the Trinity...  it was always
far too complex and above my understanding.  But when I heard this,
it helped me to understand it better (no, unfortunately I didn't
receive this in the Catholic church).
     
    How can God be one and three at the same time?  And how can He be
    one of the three without compromising part of the One?  Bumfuzzled!!
    Think of the sun as an illustration.  The sun is one thing, yet it
    gives off three things:  light, heat, and radiation.  The light
    is something in itself, yet it can happen without compromising
    its source.  The same is true of the other two elements.  And the
    three things which emerge from the one have entirely different
    effects on the things they touch.  Yet the sun doesn't change
    in order to accomplish all three things.
     
It can go on and on.  I think it's also interesting to note that a
parallel of sorts is drawn in the last book of the Old Testament
between God and the sun:  "And the Sun of Righteousness shall
arise with healing in His wings..."  (I've heard it said that the
word translated "wings" can refer to something likened to rays of light.)
     
     
"The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want..."
     
Jennifer Moore