I’ll probably have to wait until the weekend , like Sunday to watch the video. Though, I guess I probably won’t just because the subject is simply not one I’m interested in that much. I was almost not going to respond at all. But since not very many have I figured it won’t matter. I don’t believe in the trinity in the same way most here do. All analogies will fall short but this is how I think of it.
There is a wizard and this wizard is made of magic. He’s a bing made of magic, not merely a being who uses magic. You can’t separate this being from the magic. But he can cast spells and send magic out from him.
The wizard is God. Magic is the Holy Spirit. The wizard uses magic to create a physical manifestation of the magic and that’s Jesus.
For me, the truth is this. The supernatural is the absolute most boring thing in the planet to me unless it’s used as an element in a horror story. Discussions on things like where did God come from or did he always exist and so on, is just boring to me.
I think of God as more like a force. It would be like if the wind somehow had consciousness. I don’t think of God as an old man in the clouds at all. I think God is just as different from me as a spider only far more.
I also don’t think the Holy Spirit is a being. I think it’s the term we use for the power of god.
God is the empty space in a room. Jesus is the fan. The Holy Spirit is the wind. Without a fan in the room there is no wind. But without the wind and the fan, there is still that empty space we can’t see but is full of the gases we breathe, the potential energy and so on.
The word for spirit is often the same word for wind and breath. When we talk, our voices are not their own individual being. When we speak we push breath up through our throats and out our mouth and I think that’s part of why inspiration is actually “ god breathed “ and that God spoke things into creation. I view the Holy Spirit similar to how we view our voice or thoughts. I don’t think of Jesus as god, but as the son of God that God chose to make his equal.
I also have a hard time with the trinity because of things like the angel of the lord also sometimes being referred to as God. Then the whole issue of my faith that just like God accommodated ancient Jews through Judaism he also accommodated ancient Indians through Hinduism. I think Yahweh as we see in the Bible, is not truly God but a form of god tailored for ancient Mesopotamians and that this same God was also Vishnu for ancient Indians.
So maybe for me this cosmic being is the god. Yahweh is a man. Jesus is his dummy doll and the spirit is his voice and on another stage is another man, and this one has puppets on a string and at another stage is another man and this one is painting and so on.