(July 15, 2019 at 1:32 pm)tackattack Wrote: @Grandizer no illustration is perfect. Nicene Trinitarian beliefs may seem modalistic, but they're not. It's not 1+1+1=3 it's 1x1x1=1. I personally fall closer to the side of polytheistic interpretation rather than a modalism. It's commonly described as one God-Head (A title- like my name) with 3 persons (Father, Son, Spirit).
It's not just simply that no illustration is perfect when it comes to describing the mainstream Nicene Trinity doctrine. It's that no illustration, in this case, is adequate enough to help anyone understand the "mysterious logic" behind the Trinity. Nicene Trinitarian beliefs are not modalism; the mainstream Trinity is "three [actual] Persons in one God (being)" not "one Person in one God with three divine Roles". Modalism is considered a heresy in mainstream Christianity, the same with what you're describing as well (God is a family of three Gods).
