I’ve never really cared for most of the explanations or analogies used for the Father, Son and Holy Spirit being three and one. We’ve all heard the analogy of one triangle but three sides, and how water can be steam, liquid and ice. I never liked any of these. But then I was sitting in an advanced mathematics class that was presenting Laplace’s transform and beauty of the Trinity became clear to me. (I think it’s a nice touch of irony that the work of one of the most rabid atheists in history would help me understand the Trinity.)

Laplace demonstrated that any infinitely continuous function could be represented as a series of sine waves of varies frequency and amplitude. Fourier later showed that the function doesn’t have to be infinite but could be bounded with a starting and stopping point. Laplace’s and Fourier’s transforms then allow you shift the function form one domain where the function is mathematically singular to another domain where it is a series of waves. This fact is key to a lot of communication theory and filtering because it allows you to take a sound wave and transform it into a set of discrete frequencies. Such as a sound wave of different voices and musical instruments use different frequencies.

I realized that was God. In the Spiritual realm (or domain) He is One singular and united. But when He transforms to the physical realm of our world, He is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. So, God literally is one but also literally three separate and distinct. Or in musical terms, you hear a song with the four-part harmony of soprano, alto, tenor and bass but still one song.

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