(October 10, 2013 at 5:56 am)FallentoReason Wrote: I think this is the same as what I said in the OP though: Mr. Steam, Mr. Ice and Mrs. Water all work for the company "H2O". It's a valid equivocation, because essentially what we're both saying is that these three things are a different manifestation of the one thing, whether it be a company or a liquid etc.
Except the trinity wants to have Mr. Steam, Mr Ice, and Mrs. Water equal to the company H20, when in reality, they are separate pieces that create a whole. For your example to work, Mr. Steam would have to be equal to the whole company H20, while both Mr. Ice and Mrs. Water are also equal to the whole company. The trinity concept seeks to divide something into three parts while having each of those divided components being equal to the whole. It violates the basic principle of the whole is equal to the sum of its parts.
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