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Originally Posted by Aigyptos
I am a Trinitarian, I have obviously thought the same mathematical way as you did. But please note. You can not add up the 100%'s, because the Trinity is more complex than we can describe via our languages/mathematics. Also, 100% is not really about the percentage, it is about describing the perfection, because outsiders might think if we use 33.3333% * 3, that the 3 parts are not total, or perfect. Or if outsiders want to mathematically describe the nature(s) of Christ, if defenders of this doctrine would have used 2*50%, outsides would think that there's something missing in His 'Godness' or 'humanness'.
Also, you can not split Christ into 2 * 100%'s. Christ is of 2 natures and not in 2 natures, like the nestorians think. Orthodox Christianity teaches (The Miaphysite/Coptic Christological version): "one (mia) nature of the Word of God incarnate" (μία φύσις τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου σεσαρκωμένη mia physis tou theou logou sesarkōmenē)." Miaphysitism. Also see: "human" and "divine" are united in one "without mingling, without confusion, without alteration"... => http://orthodoxwiki.org/Church_of_Al...a_%28Coptic%29
Trinity should be better renamed as Tri-unity.
Monotheism is the belief in one God, which still describes the Trinitarian view of God.
Yet scripture clearly shows that the three heads have different attributes and knowledge and stature.
You cannot have that and only one God consciousness or mind.
John 14:28
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
Matthew 24:36
No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
As an aside.
As to your ideas on perfection, to believe that God is perfect and not evolving perfection, you must believe that all around us is perfect as well. Evils and woes and all. I see it and scripture points to this fact.
Do you see God's perfection all about?
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Matthew 7:18
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Regards
DL