That was offered as a rebuttal to your:
And yet, they CANNOT be separate because we believe that God is ONE. We also believe that Jesus was God. And we believe that they were separate "somethings":) --> you cannot put those 3 beliefs together without the idea of the Trinity.
My belief per se, is incidental. What I am pointing to is the bare fact that other solutions to the Godhead can just as easily exist, and qualify, by the evidence.
[...] so I asked you do you believe in 3 Gods?
To clarify, I have already declared that I do fit within the Trinitarian model - albeit loosely so.
I believe there is ONE God, Yahweh, Jehovah, who IS the great I AM. I believe that His Son, Yeshua, Jesus, is the promised Messiah, the Lion of Judah, King over ALL things, and is part and parcel, Jehovah Himself. I believe that The Holy Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh, fills the Temple of the Lord, and is, part and parcel, Jehovah Himself. These things can be proved upon the Word.
By which method that is made true is not made known - as the Scriptures are silent. But the knowledge of that method is neither needful, nor necessary, as the Father has blessed us, and ordained an order by which He is to be approached by anyone. Ergo, if one uses the means God has provided, the point is made moot.
And to assign a definition to Yahweh which is not as He has revealed is blasphemous. The Trinitarian "Hypostatic Union" is not declared by the Father, and I will not blindly endorse it.
To wit: What the Bible DOES say is that Yahweh is ONE. That is as far as I am willing to go.
Some of them say that the Son is an eructation, others that he is a production, others that he is also unbegotten. These are impieties to which we cannot listen, even though the heretics threaten us with a thousand deaths. But we say and believe and have taught, and do teach, that the Son is not unbegotten, nor in any way part of the unbegotten; and that he does not derive his subsistence from any matter; but that by his own will and counsel he has subsisted before time and before ages as perfect God, only begotten and unchangeable, and that before he was begotten, or created, or purposed, or established, he was not. For he was not unbegotten. We are persecuted, because we say that the Son has a beginning, but that God is without beginning.Arius taught that Jesus Christ was divine and was sent to earth for the salvation of mankind but that Jesus Christ was not equal to the Father (infinite, primordial origin) and to the Holy Spirit (giver of life). Under Arianism, Christ was instead not consubstantial with God the Father [6] since both the Father and the Son under Arius were made of "like" essence or being (see homoiousia) but not of the same essence or being (see homoousia).
As the both of us has commented, the HOW of the Trinity is the rub, not the IF. I fully confess I don’t know how God does it, and frankly I don’t care about the HOW. I’m thankful for the blessings/guidance/salvation from the finished product.