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    It is not the case that 'Every divine person is a god' is not true by definition.

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    • 1.The classical tradition (Athanasius, Aquinas) holds that 'divine' said of a Person predicates the divine essence, not merely a relation to it.
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    • 2.If 'divine person' only means 'person related to a god', Trinitarian theology collapses into a form of subordinationism the councils explicitly condemned.
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    • 3.The hand analogy fails because hands share human nature derivatively, whereas Trinitarian Persons are said to share the numerically identical divine substance.
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    • 1.Predicate logic requires that if 'divine' is a natural-kind term applied essentially to the Persons, it carries ontological rather than merely relational import.
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    • 2.Frege and later Geach argue that sortal predicates like 'divine' used in theological identity statements must determine a kind, making 'a divine person is a god' analytic.
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    • 1.'Divine' can mean 'relating to a god' without being a god.
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    • 2.In this common meaning of 'divine', the Persons of this theory are 'divine' without themselves being gods.
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    • 3.Analogously, a hand can be 'human' without itself being a human being.
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