21st April 2003, 6:06 PM
It's easy enough. Just take a big pitcher of water (representing the goodness and infinite greatness that is God, all in a pitcher of common tap water), and poor it into three glasses. It's all the same pitcher of water, just divided into three parts. What's so hard to understand about that?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)