The Trinity (9)

The most I – or anyone - can do is to offer a few observations. (From last time)

Think of anything that occupies space, and it must have parts, there must be components which are not the whole of it—the top is not the bottom, the inside is not the outside. If it occupies space at all, be it ever so microscopic, or so infinitesimally submicroscopic, there must be some “spread.” Space is what matter spreads its parts in. But a being with no parts has no spread; space and it have nothing whatever in common; it is space-less; it is superior to the need for space. The trouble is that we find it hard to think of a thing existing if it is not in space.

 

We all know that God is not an old man with a beard (looking rather like Karl Marx, especially when the artist wanted to show God angry). We likely realize, too, that even the somewhat more complex picture of an old man with a long beard, a young man with a short beard, and a dove, bears no resemblance to the Blessed Trinity: it is merely an artist doing his or her best. But getting rid of the pictures is of value only if, in their place, we acquire a more accurate – though still imperfect – idea of God: otherwise we have merely an empty space where the pictures used to hang. 

In Christ, Ken.