the christian trinity is an illogical idea

There is nothing illogical about the Trinity as I will prove. My opponent thinks its illogical because he misunderstands what the doctrine of the Trinity means, thus, he illustrates it in a way that does not properly represent the concept. Gal 4:8 "Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods." This suggests that unlike the idol gods of the nations, the God of Christians is God BY NATURE. Thus, the word "God," when applied to individual members of the Trinity, at times carries the meaning of the specific NATURE which makes God, God. The word God in this sense does not imply a position or action role such as Creator or Judge, for before God created anything or judged anyone, he was already God according to Psalm 90:2. This does not mean that the word "God" does not carry other meanings when applied to God, the context must determine the meaning, just as it is with many other words which have more than one meaning, for example the word "soul" at Matt 10:28 cannot mean the physical body because Jesus separates it from the body when he says that they can kill the body but not the soul, and mentions "BOTH soul and body;" but the word "soul" does mean the body in Joshua 11:11 when the souls were slaughtered with the sword, and we know this must be the body because a spirit cannot be killed with a sword. Similarly, the word God has more than one meaning when applied to the True God. I have already established one of those meanings to be a reference to the divine nature which makes Him who He is, namely, omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, being all-loving, immutability, eternality, etc. These are some of the aspects of God's nature that make him God. Secondly, the word "God," when applied to Him, can mean the Being (that is, the Trinune Being = all three persons of the Trinity) which possesses this nature of being eternal, all-knowing, omnipotent, etc. Similarly, we would say that "human" refers to being a mammal with flesh and blood, which is "characterized by erect posture and bipedal locomotion, manual dexterity and increased tool use, and a general trend toward larger, more complex brains and societies." https://en.wikipedia.org... So "human" is a reference to our nature, as when one says "I am human," he means that he is flesh and blood with a complex brain, he eats to live, has sex to procreate and has innate abilities to express love, hate, and other qualities. Yet, the word "human" also means a being that has this particular nature. To say "he is a human" means he is a being which has this nature. We trinitarians use the word "God" in a similar way, so that in one case the word "God" means the divine nature, in another case it means the Being which has this nature. With that understanding, we can get back to Pro's argument and say "the Father is God" means the Father is omnipresent, omniscient, all-loving, eternal, and all other attributes of the unique divine NATURE. To say "the Son is God" means the Son also has this nature. So here are two person who have the same nature, which is not illogical or contradictory, for two humans can also have the same nature without the first person being the second person. So to say that the Son is God, that is, has the same nature as the Father, would in no way imply that the Son actually is the same person as the Father. Now, to say that they are both the same God would not be to say they are the same person. Rather, it simply means they are included in the same Being which possesses this nature. To illustrate, take two scopes from a bag of flour. Now the first scoop is not the second scoop but both scoops can equally be said to be "flour," just like the entire bag of flour. If you mix both scoops back into the bag of flour, they are still in there, but they are both part of the same being, the entire mass of flour. This is just an illustration and not an exact correspondence to God. But I hope you get the point. There is a difference between a being and a person. A being is the TOTAL thing, ALL OF THE CHARACTERISTICS of a thing. So the being of a chair would range from its legs and back, to the fact that its made of wood, to the every minerals and elements out of which the wood is made. The Trinity is a Being which has three minds (persons) within its make up. But a person is just one aspect of a being. So our personhood is the fact that we are conscious, intelligent and rational; but there are other aspects of our being such as the fact that we have fingers and toes, language, hair, etc...Take away any one of these and our personhood would still remain. So in short, the Father is a person with divine nature, the Son is another person with divine nature, the Holy Spirit is another person with divine nature, but these are not one person. These are one Being when taken together, Being being different from person. So when "God" refers to all three as one, it refers to a Being, not a single person. So 1 person the Father = 1 person the Son = 1 person the Holy Spirit = 1 Being (the Triune God = 3/3) I guess the problem Pro also has with the idea of person is the image of a person just being a flesh and blood human. But one need not have flesh to be a person. Angels are spirit beings, they don't have flesh but they are persons. And artificial intelligence would be a person if we could create one. In so much as it had consciousness, intelligence and rationality, we could imbue it with all the rights of persons. When we look at a spirit, the bodies of three spirits could literally be ONE, EXISTING in the same place at the same time without increasing mass, just as in Luke 8 a man was possessed with a legion of demons inside his body. All these spirits in one body. Science has now proven that one particle can be in three, indeed, thousands of places at the same time, while remaining one particle. So there is no reason why God cannot be in three places simultaneously as Father, Son and Holy Spirit which keeping His unity. Interestingly, in the double-slit experiment, the first particle is in another location from the second particle in order to interact with it, and yet both are one particle. This is very similar to how the Father is not the Son who interacted with Him, and yet both are the same God. So the fact that we have things in nature which reflect the possibility of how 3 can be 1 shows that the Trinity is not illogical at all.