The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 3: Understanding the Trinity: Other Evidences

Other Evidences

                What other evidence seems to indicate that this is true?  Our imaginations are like computers.  Our minds can actually generate worlds much faster than a video game can.  Therefore, if you think about it, our minds are far more powerful than any computer (no matter how much that computer might be able to outsmart you in some game).  Oh sure, computers might do math faster and pull up information with precision while our minds can be clunky and slow in these matters, but our minds are great at developing mental images in moments.

                For example, if I wanted to develop an avatar for a video game, it might take me an hour to play around with a video game’s character creation menus.  I might cycle through endless numbers of traits before finally finding the look that I want.  However, in my mind, I could create what a character looks like instantly.  I can create images in my imagination of forests and oceans and mountains and rivers and storms and space and people…you name it!  I can do it in moments.

                So if you don’t like to think of it as a computer, think of it as an imagination.  God’s perfect imagination has dreamed us all into creation.  He dreams up every last detail about us.  However, in order to create such dreams, three things must exist.  First, there must be a life force within you that provides you with the ability to have your own thoughts and energy.  This means that the spirit must be real.  There must be something that tells your mind what things look like.  Definitions, the flesh, the word, must then be real.  There must be something that puts all these things in order and decides which definitions it likes and wants to place within the imagination.

                So regardless of which way you look at it, the body, soul and spirit must be realities.  Their properties, the flesh being self-centered, the spirit being other-centered and the soul being the judge and king, these all seem to pop out if you just observe these three elements and what they do.  It only makes sense that the self-centered part of a person is the body, since it is the definition that defines all things including the programming, what you like and dislike, etc.  It only makes sense that the spirit is the other-centered part, because it is always moving and doing and giving life to all things and transmitting information from one thing to another.  It, therefore, only makes sense that the soul is the judge and king because without that part of you everything would be chaos.  There would be no ruler to decide which way to go on any matter.