Saturday, October 06, 2007

Better than the egg

Anselm compared the Trinity to the Nile. Water arises from a spring, travels as a river, and empties into the lake. As Dennis Ngien summarizes, "The spring is not the river nor is the lake; the lake is not the spring nor is the river. Yet the spring is the Nile; the river is the Nile; and the lake is the Nile."

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1 comment:

Rebecca said...

I like it! Don't know why I am telling you this HERE, but just yesterday Corynn asked me the inevitable hard-to-explain question of HOW can God be Jesus too? I used you as an example. Father, Son, Husband bit. But still. It lacks.

I love you.