[Mad Dawg]

Distinctions that other people don't like are often called hair-splitting by them. Sometimes a hair's breadth is important, as in this case.

Some like to say that a large enough difference in degree makes something different in kind. Maybe so. But a difference is a difference, as a person's a person, no matter how small. So to point out that it's a SMALL difference is not the same thing as pointing out that it is a meaningless difference.

Sometimes plodding clarity is necessary to contend with sophistical error.

[shibumi]

"Sometimes plodding clarity is necessary to contend with sophistical error."

"Plodding" is a excellent way to describe it. And sophistry has always been the haven of plodders.

The Bible shows God to be a big fan of hyperbole. If you don't like my allusion to splitting hairs, perhaps we could all stop straining at gnats long enough to also stop swallowing the idolatrous camel in our midst.

[Cronos]

Sometimes a hair's breadth is important, as in this case.

MD is correct -- when I read up on the early definitions of the Trinity I got incredibly confused between hypostaesis and hypo.. -- it's incredibly complex and yet is not complete enough to describe the complexity that is God. That's because He is so completely out of our sense of dimension, that we can't comprehend him -- it's like a Virus trying to comprehend a human body, but we'd have lesser chance!