Mouthy,
I find this thread a real laugh. And before it is finished a fight is going to break out for sure ( I am prophetess)
With all due respect, I think you fail to see the true picture here. More than 170 posts have been entered in this thread, and there is very little "fight" to speak of. I think Witness007, Reniaa and a few others deserve more credit than that. They've hung in there regardless of the fact that they've been bombarded by the majority. And the majority have included some mockers, laughers and even twisters of scripture.
An explanation of the Trinity requires all sorts of contortions and juxtapositions, and the average person comes away feeling none of it makes any sense at all. Even your illustration would be laughable if you weren't so serious about it. How can you liken 3 human qualities (body, soul and spirit) to 3 divine persons? The "body" is not a complete person by itself. Neither is the "spirit" of a person. Why don't you also mention "mind," "heart" and "ego"? If there were truth in your reasoning, each of us would be at least 6 persons within ourselves, not just three! To carry your illustration further, if each of those 6 "persons" also contained 6 "persons," each of us would be a multitudinous world of "persons," not merely a trinity! My point is that there is absolutely no way to illustrate the triune god that ancient men invented in both heathendom and the churches. It is foolish and silly to try.
As far as I know, it has been only the churches that have threatened and actually murdered people because they wouldn't accept this silly doctrine. Little wonder, in view of such church documents as the Athanasian Creed which condemns non-trinitarians to eternal damnation! They "shall perish everlastingly" and "cannot be saved," according to the Creed. But where in the Bible are we told our faith and devotion are worthless unless we view God as three instead of as the Holy One?
The Trinity makes no sense at all. Jesus plainly said that he and the Jews had the correct view of the only God who should be worshiped. (John 4:22) The Jews haven't changed their concept of God during all the centuries since then, and God Himself has not changed. (Malachi 3:6; James 1:17) Nowhere does the Bible speak of God as "the Holy Three." (Isaiah 41:14; 49:7) Either Jesus and the Jews were correct about God or Trinitarians are correct. We can't have it both ways.
fjtoth
