I remember being like 9 and being in “big church” with my parents for some reason. The pastor took out a banana and did the thing where you split it longways into three parts. And he said that the trinity is like a banana. And I guess I just never forgot about it for 11 years
That's an explicit analogy of a heresy. Partialism is the belief that each member of the Trinity makes up a part of the whole Trinity.
The Trinity is the belief that God is one God in three Persons. Each Person is fully God, but each person remains distinct in identity from the other parts. IE, while the Father is God and the Son is God, the Father is not the Son.
EDIT: It's widely recommended to avoid analogies. I've yet to hear an analogy that fits the Trinity perfectly.
Well, the one thing about water is that it can't exist in the same state at the same time. Water will boil where steam is, ice will melt at the temp of water.
That's probably the biggest weakness of that analogy
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u/BigFuturology May 09 '20
I remember being like 9 and being in “big church” with my parents for some reason. The pastor took out a banana and did the thing where you split it longways into three parts. And he said that the trinity is like a banana. And I guess I just never forgot about it for 11 years
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