(January 18, 2021 at 7:21 pm)Belacqua Wrote: The thing, the principles by which it operates, and the spirit of the thing, can't exist separately. And since they are not material objects with extension and location, we can't talk about them being separated and isolated from one another. They are more like ideal objects -- like numbers, for example, or the rules of logic -- which are everywhere and eternal without being physical.
This seems to be treating the Persons of God as if they're [infinite] components of the [infinite] whole, like how body and spirit are components of a human being, rather than each being God.
This also raises the question for me as to why three and not more? Why not, say, have the Good be the fourth Person of God and therefore have something beyond just the Trinity? But that's probably another discussion.
