Can there be another spirit that is a trinity?

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Can there be any lower spirit that is 3 persons in one substance?
 
In the same perfect manor that God exhibits? No.

Would it be possible, assuming a spirit had enough natural power, to forge something that appeared to be in the form of a trinity? Possibly

The true trinity can only exist due to God’s infinite nature. Any lower spirit would not be of infinite nature (i.e. equal to God). Thus that spirit would cease to exist in a trinitarian form like God Himself does.

You may see the trinity, in a sense, around in the natural world (like a family), but this makes sense and points to God as existing in the form of the trinity rather then the thing itself being the trinity.
 
Of course since God is Omnipotent, then He could will such a spirit into existence if He so desired.
 
This seems to be the day for fantasy! At least three other posts today are in a similar vein… 🙂
 
I think that its possible to exist but in a lower form. For instance, such in such a being the different persons could be relations in the proper aristotelian sense, and the persons would probably proceed less perfectly from each other -would this make them different substances though? I don’t think so, since I think even humans have processions, namely the processions of ideas in the mind and these are less than God’s yet not different substances. It may be possible then to have intermediate processions -processions that are persons but are lesser than God.
 
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I think that its possible to exist but in a lower form. For instance, such in such a being the different persons could be relations in the proper aristotelian sense, and the persons would probably proceed less perfectly from each other -would this make them different substances though? I don’t think so, since I think even humans have processions, namely the processions of ideas in the mind and these are less than God’s yet not different substances. It may be possible then to have intermediate processions -processions that are persons but are lesser than God.
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What purpose would this serve?
 
tonyrey said:
What purpose would this serve?
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Just curious.

Or if you are talking about my hypothesized substances, then I don’t know what purpose they would serve but it makes intuitive sense. If angels exist above humans since there must be something even closer to God than us, it might be there might be beings closer to God than most angels. But it would still have to be an angel since angels are intellectual substances and the thing I am envisioning would have to be at least intellectual.
 
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