Could the Godhead be more than three persons?

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Luke-Suncook said:
Instead of false assertions, why don’t you try reading and comprehending my replies. Your Trinitarian thinking is preventing you from understanding His Spirit.
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Tell me what is false about what I am saying

YOU say the Father is GOD AND YOU say the son is GOD but they are different gods since you don’t hold to the trinity - Please tell me where I have misunderstood. Is there more than one God?

Try these - the 2nd link has a chart that may be helpful.

https://carm.org/isaiah-9-6-jesus-the-mighty-god

https://carm.org/trinity

God is an infinite being, we are finite. It’s unrealistic to think we can dissect each aspect of God and understand it. Saying God is three persons but one being sounds crazy, I don’t understand how to visualize that any more than i can visualize a 4 dimensional object. Does that disqualify the existence of a 4 dimensional object?

We say God is a trinity because based on what is revealed in scripture we acknowledge that there is One God but there are three persons that are all described as God and these three persons interact with each other. We just call that “Trinity” - forget the word, I agree THAT WORD is man made, get the concept. If you disagree with the concept, which of the three statements do you agree with and which do you reject?
 
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@ Luke-Suncook

Thank you for your reply. I’m sorry if I offended you, but your previous
posts were not clear enough regarding whether you believed in the Divinity
of Christ & The Holy Spirit.

A few more questions, if you will:

Do you believe that The Father, The Son & The Holy Spirit are all 1 God and
1 Godhead?

Do you believe that The Father, Son & Holy Spirit all consist of the same
substance/ same essence?

Do you believe that God the Son is eternal like God the Father? Or do you
believe that God the Son came into existence at the Annunciation?

Thanks and God Bless?
 
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Luke-Suncook said:
No. That’s not what I’m saying and and you know it. If you don’t stop the false assertions I’ll flag your post because you lie… You don’t have to mis-construe what I say to build your sorry self up.
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OK, we are just not communicating, I have given you plenty of reference materials to review. I hope you can find the answers you are seeking.
 
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I am in no way making false accusations, I was trying to get clarification on what you are saying. At this point I have no idea if you are seeking more information on the definition of the Trinity or just looking to convince others that it is a false doctrine. If you perceive every question I ask as an attack then i agree, its just a waste of time.
 
OK, then we are all wasting our time on this, we just disagree and move on…
 
Luke-Suncook said:
Don’t get clarification by mis-construing what I say! You KNOW I never said Jesus was a false or other god.
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In post 55 you clearly said Jesus is a God - direct quote.

“The father is the Almighty, all powerfull and all knowing God. Jesus is His son is the MIGHTY God, not equal to the Father as the Father has no equals.”

I just asked if there is only one God and that is the Father, If Jesus is also a God wouldn’t that make him either that same one God (as Trinitarians believe) or a false god? IF (note - I’m using the word if) you believe that Jesus is a god but a lesser god, then that is another story. Again, not sure what you are trying to present.
 
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There are exactly Three Persons.

Some of us Lutherans still learn the Athenasian creed that speaks exactly to this point:

“Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled; without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons; nor dividing the Essence…”

If I may be so bold, it’s worth memorising - my kids memorise it for Confirmation.
 
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Luke-Suncook said:
I have lots of problems with the trinity doctrine and never have and never will accept it.
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If you’ve made up your mind that you will never accept it, why hang out in a Catholic discussion forum? The Church infallibly teaches the Trinity doctrine and always has and never will reject it.
 
As strongly as we may wish to express our views, none of us can accurately predict the future. The old adage goes: Never say never.

Several examples of what happened when the man Jesus chose to lead His Church said “never”:

Matt 16:21-22 (NAB)
From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.”
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For that one, Peter received the reply of “Get thee behind me Satan.”

And for this one . . .

John 13:8 (NAB)
Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.”
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he was told that if it would be so, Peter could have no part of Jesus.

“Not at this time” as opposed to “never” is sufficient to express one’s non-acceptance of some tenet or article of the faith. None of us are identical nor at the same point of our faith journey.

To be clear, to say we accept the dogma of the Holy Trinity does not mean to say we understand it - because the Holy Trinity is a mystery .
Today linguists present the word incomprehensible as synonymous with the word unintelligible. However, Father John Hardon, S.J., appears to draw a defining line between the two when speaking of the mysteries of faith.

From Modern Catholic Dictionary, John Hardon, S.J. :
MYSTERY. A divinely revealed truth whose very possibility cannot be rationally conceived before it is revealed and, after revelation, whose inner essence cannot be fully understood by the finite mind. The incomprehensibility of revealed mysteries derives from the fact that they are manifestations of God, who is infinite and therefore beyond the complete grasp of a created intellect. Nevertheless, though incomprehensible, mysteries are intelligible. One of the primary duties of a believer is, through prayer, study, and experience, to grow in faith, i.e., to develop an understanding of what God has revealed. (Etym. Greek mystērion, something closed, a secret.)
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I can’t help but be reminded of that telling anecdote of The Mystery of the Trinity and St. Augustine Walking on the Beach
 
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