Hi!

I visited your site and read about the Trinity. Often, we try to describe the trinity as an egg, or the three states of water. These work, but fall short to fully grasp the concept of how God can be one and yet be separate. Last night our pastor described another one. One that is even a bit more biblical.

Shema in Deut 6:4 wrote:

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
 

This was so important to the jews in a polytheistic culture that their God was one. So important, that when Jesus came, he was immediately rejected because of his statements to be God. Things like "I and the father are one" did not bod well with a jew who recited the shema every morning, and ever night.

The word behind "one" in the Shema is echad. Its meaning stems farther then just a number. It means alike, united, or the same.

We see this in
Num 13:23 wrote:

And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
 

One (echad) cluster of grapes. Set aside the awesomeness of the size of this grape cluster, and we see how each grape is a part of one cluster. Like the Godhead, each part is identical in makeup. Each has the same being, the same essence, yet each is individual. Like a grape, or a cluster of grapes, they are one in and of themselves, and they are one together.

I don't think this is some deep idea, but I had never heard the concept of the grapes. I think it is a fitting one when trying to describe the trinity.

So what do think? am I close?

Love,
Madeline
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Thanks, Madeline. There are THREE Persons in the Godhead -- the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. THREE Persons yet ONE God. That is the essence of the Trinity.
John