The analogy is a good one,
No. The analogy was horrific and pitiful, just like all others of its ilk.
but of course it can't grasp the majesty of God.
Not even close, so why bother? (My abruptness and directness is not condescending or adversarial, BTW.)
It's a way of trying to wrap your brain around it.
No, it's not. God in no way resembles a cube or anthing it could possibly attempt to portray.
God has revealed Himself in Scripture as one God eternally existing in three Persons.
No, He has not. Man formulated all that by speculation and inference based on a presupposed concept that omitted the creation of eternity. All "persons" semantics comes from hypostasis, and scripture only gives us ONE hypostasis for God.
God is monohypostatic; and a hypostasis is NOT a "person". Hypostasis is substance, subsistence. The underlying foundational absolute assure objective substantial reality of existence. God is ONE of those, per the inspired text of scripture.
F/S/HS are all distinct, uncreated, eternal, non-modal, concurrent, conessential, consubstantial, ontological Deity. But they're not three hypostases ("persons").
God is a monohypostatic triunity, not a dyohypostatic trinity.
Admittedly, my analogy was a little off.
Quite an understatement, but you're certainly in majority company of those who attempt to analogized God; and always erroneously as three "persons".
C.S. Lewis explains better than me:
Ummmm... Nope. Why not stick with exegesis of scripture and find out God isn't three hypostases instead of being indoctrinated and spending time analogizing God and providing others' same faulty attempts?
You know that in space you can move in three ways – to left or right, backwards or forwards, up or down. Every direction is either one of these three or a compromise between them. They are called the three Dimensions. Now notice this. If you are using only one dimension, you could draw only a straight line. If you are using two, you could draw a figure: say, a square. And a square is made up of four straight lines. Now a step further. If you have three dimensions, you can then build what we call a solid body: say, a cube – a thing like a dice or a lump of sugar. And a cube is made up of six squares.
Do you see the point? A world of one dimension would be a straight line. In a two-dimensional world, you still get straight lines, but many lines make one figure. In a three-dimensional world, you still get figures but many figures make one solid body. In other words, as you advance to more real and more complicated levels, you do not leave behind you the things you found on the simpler levels: you still have them, but combined in new ways – in ways you could not imagine if you knew only the simpler levels.
Now the Christian account of God involves just the same principle. The human level is a simple and rather empty level. On the human level one person is one being, and any two persons are two separate beings – just as, in two dimensions (say on a flat sheet of paper) one square is one figure, and any two squares are two separate figures. On the Divine level you still find personalities; but up there you find them combined in new ways which we, who do not live on that level, cannot imagine. In God’s dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube. Of course we cannot fully conceive a Being like that: just as, if we were so made that we perceived only two dimensions in space we could never properly imagine a cube. But we can get a sort of faint notion of it. And when we do, we are then, for the first time in our lives, getting some positive idea, however faint, of something super-personal – something more than a person. It is something we could never have guessed, and yet, once we have been told, one almost feels one ought to have been able to guess it because it fits in so well with all the things we know already. (Harper Collins version, p161-162)
Now God is literally anthopomorphized as three literal "people". It's Triadism, but I don't expect DyoHypoTrins to ever actually realize it or comprehend the difference. The vast majority are dogmatized beyond reason by a concept that misrepresents God.
We see from Lewis’s words that this is not an unreasonable understanding of the biblical data.
Lewis' example is both pathetic and misrepresentative of the actual Creedal Trinity doctrine itself anyway.
As Lewis said above, ‘In God’s dimension,
God isn't "in" a dimension. God is Self-existent and Self-subsistence. Any "where" of ANY composition was created by Him. No dimension inherently contains God. He created eternity itself. He alone is UNcreated.
you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being,
Nope. More anthropomorphic gibberish with multiplied hypostases.
just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube.’
We worship, follow and give our lives to the Triune God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
F/S/HS are all God as a monohypostatic triunity. They're not three "persons" in one "being".
