Trinity / Tritheism

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How is the doctrine of the Trinity not tritheism? What is the difference? We have One God in beeing, but three in persons. We can say we have three personal God, this is trinity or tritheism?
 
The Church defines it as Trinity. Tritheism would imply three distinct divine beings. We confess one divine being existing as three divine persons.
 
We can say about humans, all have same being, but each other have a different person? We have a human being existing in a lot of person? Is something wrong here?

I can say about my mother and my father, we all are a trinity, one being in three person? Is here some wrong? Is here a “trinity” or is “tritheism”
 
We can say about humans, all have same being, but each other have a different person? We have a human being existing in a lot of person? Is something wrong here?

I can say about my mother and my father, we all are a trinity, one being in three person? Is here some wrong? Is here a “trinity” or is “tritheism”?
 
No. We share the same nature amongst ourselves but each of us is a unique being. The human nature is finite and billions of beings share that nature. The divine nature is infinite and exists as a single being shared by three persons. They are perfectly united as they share one infinite being or essence.
 
That’s only a legend. Plus the analogy isn’t even correct; it’s partialism.
 
It works for me, legend or not. A good simple teaching is a good simple teaching, regardless of whether anyone has evidence in the form of video footage.

Also, I don’t know what “partialism” is, and I don’t care to know.
Fancy words and concepts just get in the way. Jesus has asked us to come before the Lord as little children.
Therefore I find a lot of complexity unnecessary and simply a confusion of very simple concepts.

incidentally…from a cultural standpoint it’s kind of rude to dismiss a part of someone else’s ancestral heritage with “that’s only a legend”. I don’t do that to your heritage; please don’t do it to mine, or to others.
 
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Partialism is actually a Trinitarian heresy, which asserted that the three persons are actually three parts of the whole. Of course, the mainstream churches teach that the Father is fully God, the Son is fully God, and the Holy Spirit is fully God.
 
I’ve never heard St. Patrick called a heretic in my life.
I have heard the analogy from the pulpit, from priests, and read it in Catholic books many times that had nihil obstats and imprimaturs.
So obviously, a lot of experts in the Church don’t agree with your view on “partialism”.
 
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I’ve never heard St. Patrick called a heretic in my life.
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Has nothing to do with what I even said. Again, the analogy is based on a legend which arose long after Patrick died.

I am simply stating that the analogy is wrong, because it’s actually the ancient heresy of partialism. What does that have to do with people using the analogy?
 
Am confused why a non-trinitarian is trying to school Catholics on their own belief system 🤔🤔🤔
 
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I am simply stating that the analogy is wrong, because it’s actually the ancient heresy of partialism. What does that have to do with people using the analogy?
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if you really care about this, you can find on the internet arguments that it’s not partialism and is in fact similar to Tertullian’s documented use of a “tree” analogy, and furthermore that such teaching would not necessarily have been considered partialism or heresy at the time it was made.

I’m done with this discussion, since if I can google, you can also google, and I think this is both obscuring the point and over complicating the issue. i shall bid you good day, and mute thread.
 
My goodness, I am amazed at what kind of conventional wisdom Catholics choose to challenge, and what kind they do not. If you must know, it was actually a Catholic who sent me a video (uploaded by ‘LutheranSatire’) explaining bad analogies on the Trinity; and that’s where it was said that the three leaf shamrock is bad analogy because it’s partialism. Is one leaf equal to the whole plant? No, then a three leafed shamrock is not analogous to the Trinity.
 
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My goodness, I am amazed at what kind of conventional wisdom Catholics choose to challenge
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LOL at the condescending tone

Please explain why I should pay any mind whatsoever to “Lutheran satire”
 
I’ve heard Jimmy Akin say the same, at least I think it was him. It was a CA apologist.
 
Whether you should pay attention to LutheranSatire or not is irrelevant, I only mentioned a Catholic sending me this video in order to explain the Trinity, because you had a problem with a non-trinitarian apparently trying to ‘school’ you.

Now answer my question, is one leaf of the three leaf shamrock, equal to the whole plant?
 
THANK you. I don’t understand why everyone else has to get offended, just because I said an old analogy is not analogous to the Trinity, and is instead partialism.
 
Agreed. It may help explain some things but does fall, however the same is true of any analogy.
 
Yeah, you can even ask a Thomistic theologian, as I have once, who told me:

“On the other hand, there is real distinction in God between the Persons of the Holy Trinity. The Person of the Father is distinct from the Son, and from the Holy Spirit, and so on. And yet all Three are One in Substance. This is of course a mystery, with no counterpart in human experience. As human beings, we do indeed have experience of the “attributes” which are rightly named of God, but we have no experience of three persons being of one substance. Thus the Trinity is only known through Divine Revelation.”
 
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