The Trinity and the soul

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How could the soul NOT be included in the Trinity? If the Trinity is God and God is infinite then how could the soul be excluded from what is infinite?
 
Just my opinion but I think it comes down to ignorance or lack of realization of that inclusion. I recall St John of the Cross saying the center of the soul is God who is immanent.
 
Once you weren’t, but now you are , & always will be.
God has endowed you with PERSONhood forever
Nevertheless, God is God & you’re not.
Firstly & undeservedly loved we are
 
When we say that God is infinite, we don’t mean that he physically extends through infinite space, or that he is made up of infinite parts, or is infinite in some quantifiable/counting sense. We mean that his power and knowledge are not bounded or limited.
 
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Didn’t answer the question. The Trinity is God. God is infinite. How is the soul not included in what’s infinite? How can the soul be separate from what’s infinite? Is this even possible?
 
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So only some of God is infinite? Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD. Jeremiah 23:24.
 
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So only some of God is infinite? “Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD. Jeremiah 23:24.
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God has no parts. There is no sense speaking of “some” of him. You’re imposing your own context on the word “infinite.” He is without bound to his power, his knowledge, his goodness. He is omnipresent in that he is the cause of all things that were, are, and will be, not because he physically extends everywhere as some type of substance. Saint Augustine assumed God was some type of substance extending everywhere before he learned that was an error and converted to Christianity.
 
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How does God have parts? God is a miracle of indivisible Oneness.
 
My apology. But how could the soul be separate from that infinite Oneness that has no parts?
 
I understand the soul is infinite and eternal. God is also infinite and eternal. Like Father like Son.
 
The Trinity is eternal. Our souls are not. To allege some inseparability is to allege that God changes, is it not?
 
I’d suggest you read Augustine’s Confessions. His great discovery was that we do not exist separate from God but are within God. Jesus is He “for whom and in whom all things were made.”
It changed his life completely to have that realization.
 
What’s the likelihood that Augustine’s Confessions is going to answer the question of how and why the soul is not included in the Trinity?
 
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How could the soul NOT be included in the Trinity? If the Trinity is God and God is infinite then how could the soul be excluded from what is infinite?
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Neoplatonic emanationism is not a Christian teaching. God creates out of nothing.
 
Doesn’t answer the question. I thought the title of this forum was Catholic Answers?
 
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The one that’s been misunderstood, treated with contempt and buried. The cornerstone the builders rejected. It’s also not a coincidence its born in purity, is miraculous and is one with that which is eternal.
 
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