Trinity

In 2000, I was reading a work by St. Thomas Aquinas dealing with progression in God and I was also delving into the concepts of Einstein’s theories of relativity.  Additionally, I was puzzled with the concept of the Trinity at the time.  There’s nothing better than a nice relaxing hobby, right? Out of this mix of ideas and through prayer, study and thought in a search for truth, I developed the theory of Trinity based on God’s relationship to time.

Einstein’s most famous theories indicate that time and space are connected.  So, if the Big Bang theory holds up, time and space for this universe began at the same first moment, which scientists estimate to have occurred about thirteen and a half billion years ago, give or take a couple hundred million years.

So, for believers, God existed in non-time and non-space, whatever that may be, let’s say “before” (for lack of descriptors for non-space and non-time) time and space.  In other words, before the beginning, God existed.

From this perspective, the opening of the Gospel of John makes some sense.  “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”  The rest of the opening makes the argument that Jesus is the Word of God, which would make him with God and God at the same time.  Words cannot exist separate from time or progression.  Ideas cannot be transmitted from one being to another in this physical universe without time moving forward.  Time and progression are crucial for physical life.

The Word of God is God in progression.  The Word of God is God in time and space.  However, time, progression, space and physical matter do not exist in God who existed before he invented the physical realm.  So, the Word of God is God in time and space, but is a separate entity from God because God is not a being of time and space.

Let’s look at it like this.  I’m writing this piece.  It is my thought and is therefore me, but it is separated from my being by having been placed in something that is outside of me.  The writing conveys me to others, and the thoughts are still contained in me, but the words that you are now reading are not physically contained in me.

The Word of God is God by the nature of it being His conception and it remains in Him, but it has been placed in something separate from Him, which is time and space.  So, the Word of God is God yet separate from God.

Along this same line of thought, God’s power throughout the universe commences with God outside of time and space.  It is His power, but is a separate entity from Him by being in time and space.  His power is the Holy Spirit.

Let’s continue with the same example of writing this piece.  This piece is my thought on this matter, but it is brought to you by a flow of information powered by pulses and electricity that reaches across the world.  I place my words so that they can be accessed, but the words require the power of the internet to actually be read.

The Word of God moves through the power of the Holy Spirit throughout the universe.  A biblical example of this would be conception of Jesus.  Mary received the Word that she would have a son and the power of the Holy Spirit brought it to pass.

So we see the three in one at work.  God the eternal, outside of space and time, places His will into space and time, which is the Word of God, and that will is fulfilled by the power of the Holy Spirit, God’s power in time and space.

The Trinity is made up of three separate entities, but they are merely separated by their relationship to God’s creation of time and space.  All proceed from God outside of time and space and thus are still one.