Objection · Case 04 · The Trinity
A YouTube comedy sketch isn’t evidence for anything. Doesn’t citing it undermine the site’s claim to rigor?
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Response
The sketch is labeled here as a popular source and a memory aid, not a source of authority, and that is the right way to hold it. The actual evidence for this claim is the historical condemnations in the next two exhibits; the sketch simply maps the familiar analogies onto those condemnations accurately and memorably. If you would rather skip it, the argument loses nothing but a mnemonic.
About this exhibit
This objection is to The “St. Patrick’s Bad Analogies” sketch, Lutheran Satire.
This widely shared teaching video walks through the common analogies and names the heresy each one commits: water through its phases lands on modalism, the divided egg or shamrock lands on…
Under Claim 13: The popular analogies for the Trinity each restate a view the early church examined and rejected as heresy.