Trinity Sunday follow-up, as promised

Some relevant paragraphs from Many Infallible Proofs by Henry M. Morris, (c) 1974:

The Tri-une God

...First, however, note that polytheism is not reasonable. If there is more than one God, then none of the "gods" can be either omnipotent or omnipresent, as we have seen [in the previous section] the true God must be....

What about dualism, the philosophy of two equal and competing gods, one good and one evil? In effect, this elevates Satan to the position he desires, equal with God. In this belief, Satan is equally eternal with God and is the same intrinsic type of being, except that in his moral attributes, he is the opposite of God....

Nevertheless, there can really be only one First Cause, as we have already seen. The same arguments that militate against polytheism likewise apply against dualism....

Therefore, neither polytheism nor pantheism nor dualism can meet the requirements for the First Cause. The latter must be One God, perfect in power and holiness, and none else. "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God" (Isaiah 44:6).

How, then, can God be a trinity? To understand this, one must remember that this doctrine does not mean three gods. "Three gods" is as impossible and false a concept as any other form of polytheism. There can be only one God, and He is the great First Cause, the Author of all reality.

But if He exists only in His ineffable Unity, He could never be truly known...Yet, since He could not be frivolous in His creation, He must have a purpose therein and that purpose must be communicable. He must therefore somehow be seen and heard...He must paradoxically be both source and manifestation, both Father and Son.

Not only must the invisible and inaudible God be seen and heard objectively, however, He must also be experienced and understood subjectively...The activity of the Spirit is distinct from that of the Son and from that of the Father, and yet is indissolubly one with both....

The doctrine of the Trinity, rather than being unnatural and self-contradictory, is deeply implanted in the very nature of reality and in man's intuitive awareness of God...

The Witness of Creation

...Space is the invisible, omnipresent background of all things, everywhere displaying phenomena of Matter and/or Energy (which are inter-convertible) which are, in turn, experienced in Time. Just so, the Father is the invisible, omnipresent source of all being, manifest and declared by the eternal Word, the Son, who is, in turn, experienced in the Spirit....

...each of the three itself is the whole, and the universe is a true trinity, not a triad...

These remarkable relationships can be visualized by means of the diagram below:

First Dimension (Space identified) + Second Dimension (Space manifested) + Third Dimension (Space experienced) = SPACE (Universe conceived).

Energy (Matter generated) + Motion (Matter manifested) + Phenomena (Matter experienced) = MATTER (Universe manifested).

Future (Time originated) + Present (Time manifested) + Past (Time experienced) = TIME (Universe experienced).

SPACE + MATTER + TIME = UNIVERSE.

(All emphasis is in the original. Text was taken from pp. 104-110, and the chart spatially modified from p. 110)

Nashida Hakim, who has graciously invited me to contribute to her blog, is posting piecewise a paper about the Trinity. Go over and read the series ("Sura 112 and the Trinity, part _").