Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 121
Trinity 121 other two components of the Christian Trinity. Mind boggling, is it not? Different Persons with Distinctly Different Characters If God the Father, Jesus as and the Holy Ghost were three persons with individual characters, not entirely shared by others, then they may not be considered as ‘Three in One’ and ‘One in Three’. The complete merger of the Trinity into Unity can only be conceived if the characters, attributes, functions and all the facul- ties possessed by three persons become identical to each other’s, without any distinctive feature separating one from the other. This presents a scenario which could to a degree be likened to that of identical triplets, who with reference to their mind, heart, feelings and the functions of their organs are in such perfect unison that the individual experience of each of them is shared by the others completely. If this happens then something of the Trinity of God, the Son and the Holy Ghost could become more understandable. But the problem would still remain concerning the three bodies, which contain the three identical persons. This of course is not applicable to the Christian idea of Trinity. At second glance one is compelled to visualize a single body possess- ing three identities. Again, such an identity of the so-called triplets can only be visualized if one body can contain three persons, which in itself poses many problems. However, it can be pointed out that God has no body and as such the similitude of a human body, as suggested, is not applicable. Of course, we fully under- stand that God has no body in human terms, but the problem