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<blockquote data-quote="hedrick" data-source="post: 61153569" data-attributes="member: 239032"><p>Being one and three isn't a contradiction if it's one of X and three of Y. E.g. no one objects to one thing with three parts. For technical reasons we don't speak of the persons as parts, but as a first approximation it's a place to start.</p><p></p><p>The Trinity is one God. Classically the Trinity is understood to have one will and presumably one consciousness. In most modern understandings of a person I think that makes him one person. </p><p></p><p>The West has emphasized the unity of God. For us God is basically one, with the persons being distinct only to the extent needed for personal relationship to exist within God. The Catholic Encyclopedia speaks of a single three-fold consciousness, experiencing itself in three ways. But definitely a single consciousness.</p><p></p><p>Ironically, the motivation behind the Trinity was really to preserve the unity of God. The New Testament speaks of the Logos as having been the agent of creation. The Arians thought of the Logos as a separate divine entity, inferior to God. But having a second divine entity, even if inferior to the Father, isn't a great idea. So the Logos was interpreted as being part of the one God. Making him something like an angel would be a problem, since it would result in Jesus being the incarnation of an angel rather than of God, and that contradicts other parts of the New Testament.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hedrick, post: 61153569, member: 239032"] Being one and three isn't a contradiction if it's one of X and three of Y. E.g. no one objects to one thing with three parts. For technical reasons we don't speak of the persons as parts, but as a first approximation it's a place to start. The Trinity is one God. Classically the Trinity is understood to have one will and presumably one consciousness. In most modern understandings of a person I think that makes him one person. The West has emphasized the unity of God. For us God is basically one, with the persons being distinct only to the extent needed for personal relationship to exist within God. The Catholic Encyclopedia speaks of a single three-fold consciousness, experiencing itself in three ways. But definitely a single consciousness. Ironically, the motivation behind the Trinity was really to preserve the unity of God. The New Testament speaks of the Logos as having been the agent of creation. The Arians thought of the Logos as a separate divine entity, inferior to God. But having a second divine entity, even if inferior to the Father, isn't a great idea. So the Logos was interpreted as being part of the one God. Making him something like an angel would be a problem, since it would result in Jesus being the incarnation of an angel rather than of God, and that contradicts other parts of the New Testament. [/QUOTE]
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