- Welcome back to the Superbook show.

- Today, we answer your many requests

for a show about the Trinity.

- With the Trinity?

didn't we already doa show on the Trinity.

- Yeah, but I'm not happy about it.

All the metaphors that we use to explain

the Trinity are flawed.

They either showed themall as separate parts,

Father, Son and Holy spirit.

- Okay.

- Or it showed them all mixed together.

- Right.

- But what we didn'tget was an example where

they were all separateand at the same time one.

- Sure, because that's impossible to show.

- You who have ears tohear, let them hear.

- Oh wait, what are you talking about?

- The show we did on the Trinity was good

and it helped explain a lot,

- But?

- But we only used our eyes for that show.

And I think it's time we used our ears.

- I'm listening.

- Jeremy Begbie.

- Oh, I know that name.

That's that Beetles songthat my dad listens to.

- That's Eleanor Rigby. (chuckles)

Jeremy Begbie is a theologian musician.

- Cool.

- He explains the Trinityusing a piano. Let's go.

(drum rolls)- Wait.

- Begbie makes a pointthat visual metaphors

to explain the Trinity are limited

because the visual is limited.

- What way?

- No two objects can be

in the same physicalspace at the same time.

- Of course they can't.

- Or can they?

- Stop playing with me.

- Close your eyes.

- No no no, last timeyou asked me to do that,

I ended up with banana pudding on my head.

- No pudding, just mind blowing.

Come on.

- Okay.

(piano plays)- Do you hear that note?

- Yeah.

- Where is it?

Can you point to wherethat note is coming from?

- It's everywhere.

- Exactly. The note doesn'tinhabit one spot in space.

Sound is everywhere.

Now how about this one?

(piano plays)

- Yeah, I can hear it.

- Is it different thanthe one I just played?

- Yep.

(piano plays)

Can you still hear that note

and the first note I played?

- Yeah I can hear both notes.

- Both separate yet,inhabiting the same space.

One chord, two notes insideeach other and yet distinct.

- Yeah. It's...

Okay I'm getting it, play a third.

(piano plays)

Three distinct notesexisting in the same space

at the same time, the Trinity.

- Father, Son and Holy spirit.

And not just in the same space

here how they resonate with each other.

(harmonious piano)

- Harmony.

- If you look inside the piano

they're not just in harmony.

When I play a note,(piano plays)

the strings vibrate

and those around it in tunewith the cord vibrate together.

- The Trinity interactingas sounds, as vibrations.

- And the notes around it,

the ones in tune with thechord resonate together.

- Which is a metaphor for us, right?

- Yes. When we are in tune with God,

Jesus and the Holy spirit, we resonate.

- And when we sin,

we are out of tune and therefore,

(piano plays)

do not resonate.

This is really helping meunderstand the Trinity better.

- God gave us many senses,

sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell.

- And we can sense God morecompletely by using all

we are, all he created us to be,

to be in touch with him.

- That's right. Not a perfect metaphor.

God is too mysterious and complex

for any metaphor to ever be complete.

- Still that Begbie guyhas some pretty cool ideas.

- I hear you.

(piano plays)(both chuckles)

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- See you next time.- See you next time.

- All of the metaphors that we used

to explain the... (jabbering)

He talks about the Trinityusing a piano. Let's go.

- [Speaker] Don't run off.(Kaitlin laughs)

- We resonate.

(piano plays)(Kaitlin chuckles)

I'm sorry

- [Speaker] When you talkabout not resonating.

- Right.(Kaitlin laughs)

That Begbie guy hassome pretty cool ideas.

- You're... You got it.(Kaitlin chuckles)

- Now hear this.

Don't hear anything.(Kaitlin chuckles)

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- See you next time.(Kaitlin chuckles)

- I try to wave halfway through your line.