How does water illustrate a trinity in creation?
Water illustrates a trinity of sorts in creation because it exists in three states—liquid, solid, and gas—just as creation rests on basic trinities like time, space, and matter. Although the word trinity is normally reserved for the Godhead, all creation rests upon a three.
Les teaches that everything in creation rests upon trinities of sorts. He points out that creation itself rests upon a basic trinity of time, space, and matter; remove any one of those three and you have no universe. He uses water as a good example because water is a liquid, a solid, and a gas. He notes he does not like to use the word 'trinity' for water since we normally think of the Godhead, but he says everything rests upon a three.