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There cannot be two substances that contain all of reality within themselves, because they would at least not contain each other. The Greek Church Fathers taught that God’s substance is all perfection the substance of God is being and existence itself. As Jesus Himself said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30).īecause God is perfect in and of Himself, He cannot become any more perfect. Each of the Persons is fully divine and wholly possesses the divine substance.

You and I are each only one substance and one person, but God is one substance and three Persons. How is it, then, that there is a God the Father, a God the Son, and a God the Holy Ghost, but only one God? There is one divine substance, and three divine Persons. For according to Christian truth, we must profess that each of the Persons individually is God and according to Christian religion, we are forbidden to say that there are three gods or three lords.” The Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Ghost is Lord. But there are not three gods, but one God. “Thus the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. The Athanasian Creed, one of the earliest professions of faith, confessed since at least the fifth century, declares: We do not believe in three gods but in one God. The Baltimore Catechism succinctly states, “In God there are three Divine persons, really distinct, and equal in all things – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.”Īs Catholics, we are not polytheists.

The Catholic Truth of the Most Holy Trinity

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