The best description I ever heard of the holy trinity was said this way. Take a torch. It gives light and heat. Now divide the torch up the handle longitudinally into thirds. You now have 3 separate items that each give light and heat. Put them back together again and they are one torch. Each is a third of the whole and each is the same in substance and in function with the others. Separately the three perform the same as combined. At any time they can be separate or combined. But even when separated, they are still three parts of the same original torch, not 3 individual torches. They are one but can be 3 separately.
This analogy may not work for everyone but it worked for me. I thought it was brilliant in simplicity and in meaning.
Thanks for your response, but I was hoping someone here would “get it” and come up with a more elegant way to express it than what I offered. By “it” I mean that this post represents a momentous improvement in our understanding of the Trinity.
I don’t mean to be cruel, but it’s as if I’ve found a simple way to achieve cold fusion and people respond with:
“That’s nice, but you know what I like doing for energy? First, I built a really big hamster wheel and then I put a goat in it...”
Descriptions that are used to define man’s carnal understanding of the Godhead are just as unscriptural.
Stick with the scriptures and you have descriptions such as these:
God the Father
Son of God (the phrase ‘God the Son’ is not found in scripture)
Spirit of God (the phrase ‘God the Holy Spirit’ is not found in scripture)
Still want a earthly description? Here’s one:
A tv is a physical object that emits miraculous things to see and hear, from out of thin air. But, without the single electrical source, it can do nothing.
Scriptural descriptions are obviously the best, such as Jesus Christ referring to the Father as the husbandman, and himself as the vine. The husbandman plants the vine, giving it life. The vine puts forth branches. Yet the branches are given helps from the husbandman, such as poles, string, rope, etc. to grow in the right direction. Branches that end up laying on the ground are redirected by the husbandman, or cut off.