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    The three Persons of the Trinity are numerically the same... — Carmelics
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    The three Persons of the Trinity are numerically the same without being identical

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    • 1.The Persons of the Trinity are constituted by the same divine essence, analogous to a lump-statue relation
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    • 2.Numerical sameness without identity is possible when distinct entities share the same constituting stuff
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    • 3.The Father, Son, and Spirit cannot fail to be related by this shared divine essence, ruling out merely accidental sameness
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    • 1.Leibniz's Law holds that if x and y are numerically the same entity, they share all properties without exception.
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    • 2.The Father is unbegotten while the Son is begotten, so they differ in at least one intrinsic property.
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    • 3.Therefore 'numerical sameness without identity' is incoherent: it either collapses into identity or admits real numerical distinction.
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    • 1.The lump-statue constitution model presupposes two distinct objects occupying the same matter at the same time, which generates Leibniz's Law violations even in the material case.
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    • 2.Applying a model that is itself philosophically contested and generates paradoxes in ordinary metaphysics cannot resolve the deeper paradox of Trinitarian co-inherence—it merely relocates the contradiction.
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    • 3.Peter van Inwagen and Michael Rea acknowledge that constitution-based Trinitarian models require abandoning standard predicate logic, making the solution more costly than the problem it purports to solve.
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    Similarly, the Persons of the Trinity are so many selves constituted by the same stuff (or something analogous to a stuff). These selves, like the lump and statue, are numerically the same without being identical, but they don’t stand in a relation of accidental sameness, as they could not fail to be related in this way. Father, Son, and Spirit are three quasi form-matter compounds. The forms are properties like “being the Father, being the Son, and being the Spirit; or perhaps being Unbegotten,
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