God the three in one #2

A while ago I wrote about the Trinity.

I gave an example of a family of three.

But here's a better example: a business partnership.

By Australian law, the partners in a partnership are 'jointly and severally' responsible for every action and liability of the partnership. If partner 1 takes a loan for the business, the creditor can go to partner 2 for repayment.

Dealing with any partner is dealing with the partnership. They are all of 'one mind' and one responsibility. You can talk to any of them and you have talked to all of them.

So, imagine a three people get together and form a business partnership. They are thus completely linked to each other in obligation and privilege, but one looks after marketing, one operations and the other business strategy.

A customer places an order with the marketing partner. He lets the operations partner know about the order and the strategy partner about the business underway. An order has been placed with the partnership.

The operations partner makes the delivery. The partnership has made the delivery.

The customer sends the payment to the strategy partner, he being the one who looks after accounts. The customer has paid the partnership.

While the customer has dealt with three partners in turn, he has always dealt with the partnership and only the partnership.

Now, amplify the intensity of that and imagine each partner has identical motives and objectives to the others (which, incidentally, they do at law), and they each are fully engaged with each other and each completely knows and understands the others. They are united by disposition, interest, objectives and knowledge.

You have, then, the Trinity.

Except, you don't. Each partner is not fully the partnership...its as though this property of the triune Yahweh comes 'out of the page' in an imaginary dimension: somewhat like the imaginary number coming out of the number plane.

More What is the trinity? and Does the trinity make sense?.

Bible.org also has a couple of articles on the Trinity: Part 1 and Part 2.