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    It is not the case that The account is not polytheism.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.If three distinct Persons each fully possess divine attributes (omnipotence, omniscience, etc.), then three divine beings exist by standard individuation criteria.
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    • 2.Asserting their 'necessary unity' does not eliminate distinct divine subjects any more than asserting necessary unity among the Olympian gods would collapse Greek polytheism.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hume and empiricist critics argue that numerical identity requires indiscernibility: if the Father is not the Son (as orthodoxy requires), they cannot be numerically identical.
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    • 2.A collection of non-identical divine beings, however necessarily unified in will or substance, satisfies the functional definition of polytheism that matters for religious ontology.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Only the Trinity is God.
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    • 2.There is a necessary unity of the three Persons.
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