re re major views of the trinity in article may athos rutgers edu bocher writes it seems that during the middle ages it was customary for pastors to explain the trinity to their parishoners by analogy to water water is water but can exist in three forms liquid ice and vapor thus it is possible for one essence to exist in three forms this sounds to me like a sort of generic modalism in the the three phases of water are but different modes of behavior of the same physical stuff it certainly does not seem to me to describe the orthodox position of course i suppose that the medieval view of water may have been different but now we know that the phases of water are just different behaviors of the same physical stuff different modes not different identities but perhaps the medieval people did not know that and recently the pastor of my church drew an analogy which i also found useful a woman is often percieved by others in three ways depending on their relationship to her a mother a wife and an employee in a business this is clearly modalistic monarchianism since these three aspects depend solely on point of view and are do not really represent actual variety within the person do you now begin to see why sarima teradata com formerly tdatirv sarima or stanley friesen elsegundoca ncr com
