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Comment author: Omid 29 August 2013 02:39:11AM 1 point [-]

See I don't understand why Christians think the trinity is a contradiction. "God is one person, composed of three other persons." makes as much sense as "The China brain is one person, composed of a billion people" or "a subset is a set that is part of another set". In programming, it's easy to create an object that belongs to class X while also having component parts that belong to class X.

Comment author: hairyfigment 29 August 2013 06:51:03PM 4 points [-]

The problem is that the options you just alluded to are probably heresy: I think subordinationism on one side and modalistic monarchianism on the other.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 29 August 2013 04:05:17AM *  0 points [-]

I think the idea is that it's supposed to be both the same being and different beings, and the logical contradiction is a Divine Mystery?

Or something like that.

Comment author: erratio 29 August 2013 12:36:00PM -2 points [-]

To me, that just means that God is fractal