Mysteries of God and Frisbees

How Frisbees work is a very interesting study. It is not as simple as you would expect. I know how the Bernoulli’s Principle works. It creates lift by forcing air to move faster over the top of the Frisbee, which decreases air pressure and creates a force up on the Frisbee. That in and of it’s self can be pretty complicated, but think about all the intricacies of it. What does the spin do? Does it create lift? Does the forward spin of one side, and the backward spin of the other side of the Frisbee effect the Bernoulli’s Principle? It is quite complicated. Check out this note from The Ultimate Handbook:

The careful design of the Frisbee places its lift almost perfectly at its center. The disk is thicker at its edges, maximizing its angular momentum when it spins. And the tiny ridges on the Frisbee’s top surface introduce microscopic turbulence into the layer of air just above the label. Oddly enough, this turbulence helps to keep the upper airstream attached to the Frisbee, thereby allowing it to travel farther.

I had no idea it worked that way!

One of the most important things that I learned at college was that I don’t know as much as I thought that I knew. There are always going to be many things that we do not understand, but yet still be able to know what they are and how they work. This is especially true when it comes to God.

The concept of the Trinity is a perfect example of this. The trinity is a term that was made up by man. It does not appear anywhere in the Bible. It is a term that we invented to designate one of our understandings or lack of understanding (depending on how you look at it) about God. The trinity has three parts:

1. God is three distinct persons
2. Each part is fully God
3. There is only one God

And, each one of these principles that we understand God to be come from various scriptures. At first it may seem easy to understand this principle. There are many analogies that I have heard to explain this phenomenon of God. We could look at God like a pie. The pie is like God, and it has 3 parts that are God. The problem with this is that it means each part is 1/3 of the pie and not the whole pie. Which goes against the second principle of the Trinity. Each part of God is 100% God. We see this from various scriptures like this one that says ,” “in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form” (Colossians 2:9). The point is that we can know something about God and not understand it. We can know a little about how he works and not understand him. The Trinity seems to be a contradiction

Holy Spirit = 100% God

Jesus = 100% God

Father = 100% God

Holy Spirit + Jesus + Father = 300% God [?]

As Christians we should strive to know God as best we can, and this involves trying to understand why and how he does things, and there are many things that we can learn like the concept of the Trinity. But we have to understand that God is much bigger than us, and we cannot all of Him into our understanding.