Cross Balance

A Trinity of Three Persons

If one accepts that the ancients
have got the idea of four personality types roughly right,
(though maybe based on imperfect science!)
then how does this fit in with our understanding of man
being created in the image of God?
Our Christian understanding of God is that of three Persons
forming a Trinity of perfect balanced relationships.
 How does the concept of four human personalities
fit with a God of three persons?

To answer this,
I think that God has to be represented
at the centre of the octogon of temperaments or personalities,
as shown above.
God the Father is at the top,
tending to be represented by the intellectual personality.
God the Son, Jesus or God incarnate,
is in the middle
and represented by the full spectrum of the sense-based personalities
(from the observer to the doer).
And God the Holy Spirit is represented,
at the bottom,
 by the outward-going expressive personality.

Jesus clearly had a perfect balanced personality
 - in the middle -
but at different times would have moved
towards each of the four temperament types.

In doing this he would, of course,
have demonstrated only their strengths,
as he was a perfect man.
It is only in an imperfect world,
and with fallen mankind,
that the personality weaknesses reveal themselves.