As a rule, I tend to avoid the subject of the Trinity
when talking with Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The reason being that it is such a big subject and one to which they are so vehemently opposed. Their rejection of the
doctrine is one of the few teachings that has made it through the decades from
the very early days of the organisation. Additionally, they have been taught so
many untruths about the Trinity idea by the Watchtower that one has to wade
through them before even beginning to put forward the Biblical evidence
They have been taught that the doctrine is confusing and that Jehovah is not a God of confusion, quoting 1 Cor 14 v 33 as proof. This argument is a complete fallacy as we are
not saying God ‘invented’ the Trinity, it’s just what is; if we find it
confusing then that’s our problem not God’s mistake!
The doctrine can be found in the Bible today, but you
have to have a certain mindset to understand how it can be so – three separate
persons yet still only one God. But, what
has the theory of light have to do with this?
In 1704 Sir Isaac Newton (of the falling apple fame) decided
that light was ‘corpuscular’, that it was made of particles that travelled with
infinite speed. Later, in the early 1800s,
the alternative theory came to the fore that light was a wave instead. The argument as to which was right raged on
for centuries with some experiments confirming that light was a wave and some
confirming it was made of particles.
It wasn’t until the early part of the 20th
Century that people came to accept the evidence before them that light is both
a particle and a wave at the same time. Accepting this
confusing idea as truth, even though scientists didn’t understand it, made it fit
all the experimental evidence.
Letting go of long held ideas of the world around them
led to the radical branch of physics known as quantum mechanics. This is turn led to an explosion in
understanding of how the world of the tiny operates. It is this new understanding that has
resulted in much of the smart technology we take for granted today and has
opened up whole new areas of study.
Accepting the apparently contradictory evidence within
the Bible that God is one and yet exists as three persons may not seem to make
sense, but once accepted, this leads to a new world of understanding of
the relation between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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