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Lines, Triangles, and the Trinity Paper submitted for the Experience of God in the Disciplines, September 2001, Robert Styer From the early centuries of the church variations of a triangle have symbolized the Trinity.1 The equilateral triangle is a powerful picture of the coequal nature of the three persons. It stresses the distinctions, the “is not” doctrine, of the three persons by the maximal separation of the vertices. Many triangular images have been used to symbolize the Trinity, for instance2 (see Appendix A for more symbols), Symbols are very powerful, and although everyone