Posted by
Bob Siegel on Monday, April 21, 2008 4:22:50 PM
He looked very proud of himself. After all, he had just disproved the Trinity, or at least, he
thought he had.
I was doing an outdoor open forum at Arizona State
University, taking questions about Christianity from skeptical students in
their free speech area. A Muslim undergrad and I had been dialoguing for a
while. As a Muslim, he was dismissing the Trinity, claiming that God could not
possibly be three in one. Finally, to
give his case an extra shot in the arm, my enthusiastic sparing partner shouted
out a math equation, probably the one of the first lessons in arithmetic any of
us had ever learned: “One plus one plus
one equals three! Not, one!”
“Oh,” I said. “Now
we’re using math to figure out God. OK. How about this? One times one times one equals one! ”
This is Bob Siegel.
Making the obvious, obvious.
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