Friday, March 31, 2017

Conjoined Triplets: A meaningful analogy of the Trinity?

Recently, one Evangelical Protestant appealed to conjoined triplets as a meaningful analogy of the Trinity (three persons in one being). To understand the utter stupidity of this analogy, listen to James White(!) break down a similar analogy (Cerebus, the three-headed dog from ancient mythology) that William Lane Craig has often appealed to:



To see the failures of analogies to explain the Trinity, the following video, St. Patrick's Bad Analogies, hits the nail on the head (albeit, in a humorous manner!):