(January 31, 2018 at 12:52 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Let's see if we can make some sense out of this.The Trinity is necessary. Some have asked this question: How is it that a being from everlasting to everlasting with immense power doesn't get disinterested in existence? Among the members of the Trinity, there's not only lots of love, not just humongous amounts of love but infinity love. If God were one and only one, he could not possess or experience love, and hence would not have included it in creation, or perhaps, would have been motivated to create the cosmos at all. Love is an expression of compassion and affection one person to another person; therefore, God in 3 persons is necessary.
The Trinity, in the mainstream sense, refers to the one God who is three Persons, each being fully the one God, yet distinct from each other.
The Father is fully the one God.
The Son is fully the one God.
The Holy Spirit is fully the one God.
They are all one and the same God, yet three distinct Persons of God?
Of course, many of us are aware of the history behind how the Trinity doctrine came to be, but let's overlook that for the sake of argument and let's see how theists who are all about using logic can make logical sense out of this one.
Remember, the Persons of the Trinity are each the one and only God; they are not aspects/states of the one God (i.e., modalism) or three gods in one (e.g., as Mormons believe).
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.
