Thank you for the clarification.

Don Kirkman wrote:
Icono Clast wrote: [ the Trinity]

I think I was still a teen-ager when someone pointed out to me
that one of the big dif'rences 'tween the Catholics and other
Christians was that Catholics believe the three to be one and
others the Catholics' one to be three.

For about the last 1600 years (since well before there were
Protestants or Orthodox or Catholic - those names came later)
there has been general theological agreement that God is one (cf.
Muslim doctrine "Allah is one/there is only one Allah and Muhammad
is his prophet"). The "persons" of the Trinity are named for the
masks worn in Greek theater; the point is that the one God appears
to mankind in different "masks". Outside of ecclesiastics and
academics not many people have a clear understanding of that
simple issue - which in fact has been at the root of many brutal
and bloody religious wars.

It is true that from the earliest times there were individuals and
groups that did not accept the doctrine of the Trinity, including
Muslims and Unitarians of various backgrounds.

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