Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 119
Trinity 119 the Father and the Holy Ghost like a tiny finger jutting out of an amoeba’s body? This scenario will also have us believe that during that phase Jesus as was greater than both his co-partners because he equally shared the form of existence with the Father and the Holy Ghost, while they did not share the jutted out finger of his human existence. Hence, to make matters easily understandable, an attempt is made to illustrate the inherent paradoxes and absurdities by visualising different hypothetical situations. Of course, the illustra- tions should not be taken literally by the readers. The issue before us is whether there is a single person exhibit- ing different attributes or going through different phases. This brings us to the question of considering the proposition of ‘Three beings in One’ and ‘One being in Three’, particularly from the angle of different phases as distinct from each other, and display- ing different characters and moods by the same person. This position has been considered at length in a previous chap- ter. Here, it is only necessary to re-emphasise the point that if one person or one entity exhibits different phases, it cannot exhibit those different phases simultaneously, without dividing itself into different parts. Take, for example, water in a certain measure and quantity. It can be turned entirely into vapour or ice without compromising the singleness of its entity. If it is to be simultaneously observed in these different phases, it would have to be split so that a third of it would be ice, a third vapour and a third liquid. Each form would be different from the other, with none sharing the other two