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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: re: Trinity/Messiah and Referential Aberration
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At the moment, I do not have the time to reply to this long question.  As a
theologian, I am only an amateur, and this will require serious study on my
part.  I will, however, attempt a few sentences now.

Discussion of a religious idea such as the Trinity leads quite quickly into
a dark valley.  Allegedly, what we are talking about is an existence which,
if it exists, resists direct observation.  It is further alleged that the
true object is unknowable (i.e., that it is impossible to mentally represent
it correctly).  Therefore, there is an important sense in which the doctrine
is symbolic of existence rather than descriptive.  On the other hand, mystics
have claimed to have experienced this and similar states of being.  I
therefore have to wonder whether C. S. Lewis's story of the mystical and
erudite limpets does not indeed have a point to make here.

Charley Wingate