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Originally Posted by Drake
Three entities or beings is the ditch of tritheism. Three Persons could be the ditch of tritheism if by Persons you mean entities.
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This is where you at seriously mistaken. And how your little sect errs in dismissing so much of Christianity as inferior.
Tritheism is not just having three gods, but worshipping three gods. We do not worship three gods. We worship One God that is in Three Persons. We do not pray to different persons for different things. We were instructed that we were to ask (pray to) the Father and to do it in "my name" (the Son, Jesus Christ).
You are OK with "persons" but not with "entity." They really are the same in common usage. In the world in which I work, an entity is a variety of person. So is an individual. We usually use the word "entity" to refer to a "body corporate" such as a corporation, an association, a trust, etc., while an individual is a natural person.
Lee decided that he could define the edge if the 'three" side of the equation tighter than everyone else and thereby define out a huge portion of those who didn't follow him. Drive a wedge between you and everyone else. But there is nothing in the Bible that denies the fact of three true persons (as we understand persons) who are Father, Son, and Spirit as three persons yet One God in terms of the whole of the being of God. Your problem (and likely Lee's before you) is that you cannot reconcile applying the term "being" or "person" as applying to the One God and also the Three that constitute that God.
Your version speaks fondly of an aspect of three, but denies that they really are three. There is no actual "we" that can make man in "our" singular image. You falter when you hear "I and the Father are one" and declare that they must simply be the same person. But only in the sense of One God. Not in the sense of the person that the Son is. "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father" is not the same as saying "I am the Father." It is confirmation that "we" have one image and it is right here in front of you. There is nothing else to see.
In short, you do not believe in a God that is "we." Or you can't understand it when there is only One God. So you marginalize the aspects of three. Declare that they are just processes of the One God. The One God gets processed and there is now the Son. Then he gest processed some more and now there is the Spirit.
But even after your processing, you just morph one into the next, leaving the simultaneous existence of the three as an unexplained phenomenon in a world in which the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are simply a singular being only. The Father is just the Son. The Son is just the Spirit.
The scripture does not ever say anything like that.