Importance of Using Biblical Words/Terms Biblically: Trinity

First, the word "Trinity" is never actually used in the Bible. But the concept is clearly present. Consider, for example, Matthew 28:19.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit . . .

And 1 Peter 1:2.

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

There are many individual single verses in which we find God the Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ the Son mentioned together. These are two of them.

The matter of concern, for me, is that ill-advised use of illustrations that supposedly 'help' the saints to grasp the concept of the Trinity. There are three commonly-used illustrations that, in my opinion, are more damaging than helpful. It is dangerous to attempt to illustrate profound spiritual realities with mundane things. Doing so, in my opinion, degrades them altogether.

The first of these is the egg illustration. The teaching that accompanies this illustration is generally something like, "The egg has three separate parts that make up the whole: the shell, the yolk and the egg white. In much the same manner there are three separate members of the one Godhead: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Are we to suppose that because we can grasp the three parts of the single egg we grasp the Godhead better?

The second such illustration that is often used is the sun. There is one sun, but three aspects of the sun: the light, the heat and radiation. We see the light, feel the warmth, and our skin is altered by the radiation. So then, I have now come to rightly understand the Godhead because of my experiences of the sun?

The third such illustration is water. There are three entirely different states in which water can exist: liquid, steam [or vapor] and ice. Since nearly everyone has experienced water in all these forms, and still know that it is all water, we now really grasp the Godhead far more, right?

Any time we reduce profound Bible Truth into comparisons with mundane things we degrade the Truth! THINGS THAT ARE VASTLY DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER ARE NOT THE SAME!