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Originally Posted by OBW
Actually, while your statement is true, that is the same as saying "The red crayon is the green crayon. You can't get more crayon than that."
Jesus is God, but Jesus is not the Father. I am an American, but I am not Ohio (who is also American).
The problem is that Lee violates one of the foundational errors of logic. The parts of a set are not each the other parts of the set. Neither is the set simply one of the parts.
This is the theological construct that Lee sets out to violate. The Trinity is a unity, but that does not confound the persons such that the Son is the Father or the Spirit. But as God they are a single, unified One.
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It's funny that you appeal to logic to explain the Trinity, which indicates you don't truly understand the Trinity at all. Those who say the Trinity is logical have likely become tritheist or unitarian. There is no possible logic that could deal with the case of God being both one and three at the same time, much less try to establish, as you have by logic, the intricacies between the 3 Persons.
The classical viewpoint is that the Trinity is a mystery, it is not logical at all.
This mystery is typically expressed in this way:
Perhaps the deepest, the most profound of all mysteries is the mystery of the Trinity. The Church teaches us that although there is only one God, yet, somehow, there are three Persons in God.
https://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/goda22.htm