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The truth is that there is no mathematical exactitude,
no absolute equality between the three persons of the
Trinity. If the Father were in every respect equal to the
Son or the Holy Spirit, as the unit 1 is positively equal
to another figure I, then there would necessarily be only
one person of God and not three, because a unit is not
a fragment or fraction nor a multiple of itself. The very
difference and relationship that is admitted to exist
between the persons of the Trinity leaves no shadow of
doubt that they are neither equal to each other nor are
they to be identified with one another. The Father begets
and is not begotten; the Son is begotten and not a father;
the Holy Ghost is the issue of the other two persons; the
first person is described as creator and destroyer; the
second as saviour or redeemer, and the third as life-giver.
Consequently, none of the three is alone the Creator, the
Redeemer and the Life-giver. Then we are told that the
second person is the Word of the first Person, becomes
man and is sacrificed on the cross to satisfy the justice of
his father, and that his incarnation and resurrection are
operated and accomplished by the third person.

In conclusion, I must remind Christians that unless
they believe in the absolute unity of God, and renounce
the belief in the three persons, they are certainly
unbelievers in the true God. Strictly speaking, Christians
are polytheists, only with this exception, that the gods of
the heathen are false and imaginary, whereas the three
gods of the Churches have a distinct character, of whom
the Father -as another epithet for Creator- is the One true
God, but the son is only a prophet and servant of God, and
the third person one of the innumerable holy spirits in the
service of the Almighty God.