3di) Letter to a TV Evangelist:
I was listening to your TV show again today and heard your comments on the Trinity. Although you are repeating the Christian party line on this, I as a rocket scientist cannot accept the inherent ambiguity. On one hand you believe in only one God. However, you also believe Christ is this God and He talks to other Gods, ie God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. Then you attempt to clarify this by saying there are three persons in the one God, but this is a mystery we cannot understand. Have I stated your position on this correctly?
I too am a Christian, but to me there is a logical explanation, which somehow has gotten overlooked. And, if you are to believe this with all your heart, then it ought to make sense. Consider this logical explanation.
1) God can think at least as well as we can.
2) We can create in our minds by thinking, so surely God can create by thinking.
3) God’s creations are in His mind not outside His form.
4) The First Cause, which has no cause, cannot have any outside. If as some believe the universe around us is that first cause, then we can see how there can be nothing outside of it.
5) Therefore everything the First Cause creates must be created within Itself.
6) Since God creates within His mind, it fits this baseline logic.
7) Since everything created is in the mind of God, we can understand the following:
a. God is all-powerful, because He can do anything in His thought worlds as easily as thinking about it.
b. God is everywhere and He knows everything about His thought worlds, because nothing and no place exists until He thinks of it.
c. God is outside the Time of His thoughts but He has a time of His own. Time is merely the “separation of events”. Since God separates events, He must be moving through time. However, He is outside the time of His thoughts in the same way any thinking being is.
d. No one in the thoughts can ever see the thinker face-to-face John 1:18, 6:46; 1Tim 6:16-18; 1John 4:12.
e. If God, the Thinker wants someone in his thoughts to see him, He cannot put that person outside His form, because there is no outside. What God can do, however, is to think of Himself in His thoughts next to that person and then they will see each other face-to-face.
f. The Image of God in His thoughts is the Second Person of God:
- Archangel Michael was God in angelic form, ie the One Who is like God
- Jesus of
- The Body in the Tomb was the Second Person of God inactive
- The Risen glorified Christ is God in angelic form with holes in His hands
God thinks of this Image to be Himself, so clearly the Second person of God is God only different.
8) The Spirit of God is His thoughts, ie all of His thoughts at any one time, not any one specific thought.
- A person’s thoughts completely define them yet in a different way than their physical form or the image of themselves in their thoughts.
In this way we can see that there are indeed exactly three persons in every thinking being: their form, the image of themselves in their thoughts, and their thoughts. Each is equal yet different. It takes all three so there is never a time when one of them is missing.
Can you see how God can think of Himself as a human being praying to God the Father and telling other people that He cannot be with them in person, but His Spirit will be with them wherever they go. God’s thoughts are everywhere in His thought worlds and we can speak to God (ie pray) merely by thinking ourselves. Thought transcends the dimensional gap between the thinker and his thought.
5 January 2002
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