What if God is an Ocean?

So they say there's two topics above all others you should try to avoid in conversation. One is politics, which I've dived into pretty much head first already. The other is religion. What kind of blogger would I be (any serious blogger would probably take offense to me calling myself one) if I didn't try to tackle one right after the other? I suppose I did make some references to religion in my values blogs but I wouldn't really call those religious posts. This is actually a post that I intended originally to write on Easter, but I got sidetracked and forgot about it until now.

One thing that a lot of Christians have problems with (as do I) is the concept of the trinity. Growing up, I was taught the concept of the trinity in vague detail but the church more or less avoids the topic. It wasn't until college that I learned exactly what the trinity was and how critical it is to Christian beliefs. I struggled for awhile because I was surprised I never understood the concept before. Father, Son, Holy Ghost, three in one. All God Himself. I always more or less saw Jesus as God's son, and part of God in some way, but not actually God. I saw Jesus as a somewhat separate entity. There are verses in the Bible to back up this belief too, such as when Jesus says there are certain things that He doesn't even know, only His Father in heaven does. This implies that Jesus does not know everything God does, so he cannot be God, correct? Well, no, but many people point to that as evidence that it does imply that. A lot of Christians understandably shy away from discussing the trinity in detail or from questioning it at all. They don't fully understand it (nobody does, some believe the church made up the concept) and are afraid that questioning it will somehow damage their faith or put some kind of giant crack in their religious beliefs. I think this is dangerous. Christians should not be afraid to question the tenants of their faith. If you don't question your faith, how can you defend it against others that question it? Indeed, the trinity is one of the primary complaints Muslims have against Christianity because they see it as Polytheism. Nobody can claim to understand the trinity for sure, but by discussing it and understanding it better, one's faith might even be strengthened.

I was thinking over this subject a month ago or so and trying to think of how the trinity could be explained to fit into human logic. The problem of course is that the trinity (if our understanding of it is accurate) is probably all too complex for humans to understand, and believing in it is more a matter of faith than logic. Still, theorizing can't hurt. We know that we were made in God's image and as a result we tend to imagine God as some old guy propped up on a cloud... and we wonder how that old guy could also be Jesus on earth (did he take a vacation from heaven?) and then also the Holy Ghost. It's very possible that God's form is so complex that imagining him as one entity up on a cloud is ridiculously off. What if... instead of an individual like ourselves, God is more like... water? Humans are made up of mostly water, so that could possibly explain us being made in his image. Also, water (besides air, which would also fit into this analogy) is the thing that we can go the shortest time without consuming. Water is life-giving, just like God. So, let's imagine God is like a body of water, the ocean. Jesus could be like a drop of water that was sent to live among us. That drop of water is still water, and is completely identical to the larger ocean, only smaller. They are physically separate but yet identical and the same. When Jesus died, perhaps like a drop of water he returned to that ocean that is God. Like before, the drop of water is now a part of the ocean again. They are one and the same, but now together again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not actually suggesting that God is an ocean... but what if the ocean-drop of water relationship is a good analogy for the God-Jesus relationship? Seems feasible to me. Just something to think about... Happy Easter (belated).