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Originally Posted by redeemedcynic84
The reason it is said like that is because Trinitarians believe in one God... They stick to the trinitarian terminology out of tradition...
The way to understand the trinity is to look back at Nicea when they adopted it and understand who/what they were fighting when they adopted it and why they adopted it...
The groups they were trying to eliminate were ones that were teaching that Jesus was not God at all, but the first created thing that then created the Holy Spirit and God gave Jesus all his god-powers who then gave the Holy Spirit all the god-powers, too... (Arians)
There were other groups saying that Jesus wasn't human but some sort of divine vision everyone saw but wasn't really there since God can't become part of the natural world because the natural world was evil and was actually created accidentally by demons (long story)... (Gnostics)
There was still another group that taught that Jesus' Father was not actually YHWH of the Old Testament but that YHWH was evil and a satan-like figure... (Marciuns)
These are the kinds of groups they were fighting in those early days... and they are the kinds of groups the Trinity was adopted to fight... Look at the basics of the Trinity:
1. The Father is God
2. The Son is God
3. The Holy Spirit is God
4. There is one God
that's the jist of it... everything else is just trying to make those 4 statements all be true and make sense...
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thank you, but I still don't see how a personal pronoun can on the one hand refer to being and on the other refer to distinction in persons....
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