I can understand looking at creation and understanding the nature of God from the perspective of His righteousness and desires for mankind.
But try as I might, I do not see how the concept of “the Trinity” can be derived therefrom. Possibly my sinful natural man is interfering with my understanding, but, and this is a serious request, if you could share your train of thought to arrive at this conclusion, it would help me out.
Thanks
Romans 1:20 New International Version (NIV)
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Consider when God created man, he created him in His own image.
Man is a being that is three-in-one.
Man has a body - a soul - and a spirit.
However, post Adam (the Fall), all mankind is born spiritually dead. That is what God meant when he said “in the day you eat thereof, you shall surely die”.
What died in Adam as his spirit, and this causes eternal separation from God.
But a man can be “born again” - that is, his spirit is revived, and with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, you undergo a process in which your spirit is moved toward what it should be.
Note: this is not a perfect analogy, because God is infinite, His ways are above our ways. It is like looking through a glass darkly.
Consider also our universe. It has Height, Width, and Breadth (X,Y,Z). If we just have two dimensions, the volume of the universe is zero. But when we add the third dimension, the volume of our universe is infinite.
Likewise, time has a past,present an future. If any one of these were not to exist, time would have to cease to exist as we know it.
Matter is, in general at only 3 states (there are intermediary excited states that can be made by pumping energy into matter, but those are not “at rest” and therefore are not fundamental to the nature of matter).
Life exists as Plants, Animals and Man (Man is a special creation).
There are many examples in our universe of Tri - Unity or Trinity.