Christianity: Question of the Trinity

I decided to start my blog with this post since it was the first thing that came to my mind.  For starters let me explain a little about myself.  I am a Christian.  I am also an ordained minister with Open Ministry.

Now as to the subject of this post: the Trinity.  For those of you who don't know, the Trinity in a staple in Christian doctrine.  It is the belief that God the Father exists in three forms; the Father (God), the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Ghost/Spirit.

While the first two forms are easy to understand, it is the last, that of the Holy Spirit that often confuses many.  This confusion not only is prevalent among non-believers but believers as well.

Once, the discussion of the Holy Spirit came up in my church.  My pastor remarked that he didn't think that the Holy Spirit could be truly understood by man.  Whilst thinking upon his comment on how one could explain or not explain the Holy Spirit, a revelation of sorts, came to me.

The Holy Spirit could be explained. It was as simple as water...

Water, like the Trinity, exists in three separate forms.  It exists as a liquid, as a solid, and as a gas.

I realized that the different forms of water could be applied to explain the Trinity.

The conclusion I came to, and shared with my pastor was this:

The Father is like the solid state of water, ice.  God is a physical being, always present.  He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; all powerful, all knowing, and always present. Ice is powerful, it was an iceberg that sank the Titanic after all, and seemingly always present.

The Son is like the liquid state of water.  Jesus, by His death, washed away the sins of all those who believe in Him. In the Bible, Revelations 7:14 states, “...they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." The Lamb, referring to Christ.  In Christianity one is also baptized with water, as a symbolic for of one's new devotion to Christ and their cleansing, or 'washing away,' of their sins.

The Holy Ghost is like the gaseous for of water.  It can not be seen but it is always present and sometimes, like with humidity, can be felt.

I hope that this post helps some to better understand the Trinity and its separate but connected parts.  For just as water exists as a liquid, solid, and gas, it is still the same element; as is the Trinity - the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost exist as three but are ultimately one.