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You cannot solve a logical problem by just asserting it is not a problem.
I'm also not the one saying there are three gods. I'm saying that the three Persons are the same God. Not by each having their own divine nature, thus each being a god; but by the three co-existing of the same Essence. Not multiple divine beings (in the way that there are multiple human beings); but one Divine Being. The three are the same Divine Being.
Yes, if I was saying that each of the three were a god, and that three gods are one god, that would be logically absurd. That's not, however, what Trinitarianism says.
The Father is the one God.
The Son has the Father's Deity. Not another deity that is different, other than, separate, from the Father; but the one and the same. The Son is that very same Divine Being which the Father is. Thus the Father and the Son, while distinct in Hypostasis, in their "Persons", are the same in their Being.
The Son is not God apart from the Father. The Son is God in, with, from the Father.
In Being, the one and the same.
In Hypostasis, distinction.
If I say that there are three gods that are one god. That is an obvious contradiction.
If I say that the one person is three persons. That is an obvious contradiction.
Not three beings who are the same being.
Not three essences who are the same essence.
Not three gods who are the same god.
Three Hypostases who are the same Being.
-CryptoLutheran
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