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    It is not the case that Schleiermacher argues that trinitarian distinctions are secondary reflections on religious experience, not ontological claims about God's inner life.

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    • 1.If Trinity is merely experiential projection, Christian worship risks idolatry—venerating human religious psychology rather than actual divine reality.
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    • 2.Early Christian theologians (Nicaea, Constantinople) formulated Trinity as ontological doctrine precisely to preserve God's transcendence and revelation's truthfulness.
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    • 3.Reducing all doctrine to experience-reflection collapses the distinction between subjective feeling and objective truth, making all rival religions equally valid.
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    • 1.Religious experience (feeling, piety) is epistemically prior to doctrinal formulation and more foundational than abstract metaphysics.
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    • 2.Trinity language functions practically to express Christian experience of God's threefold relation to us, not to map God's internal metaphysical structure.
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    • 3.Claiming direct knowledge of God's inner ontological nature exceeds human cognitive and experiential capacities, making such claims presumptuous.
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