re major views of the trinity in article may athos rutgers edu swf elsegundoca ncr com stan friesen wrote simply put i do not see any way that a platonic essence could have any real existance essence in the platonic sense does not have any referent as far as i can tell it is just an imaginary concept invented to provide an explanation for things better explained in other ways you are quite confident that essences do not exist how do propose to define beings can a thing can be one without definition can a being have a definition and know essence what about properties do beings have properties does god have properties does numbers exist in reality as abstract entities or do we invent them thus to me the unity of god must be primary and the triality must be secondary must be modal or aspectual relating to roles or to modes of interaction since otherwise there is no meaning to saying god is one see my post in alt messianic about the possibilities of tri theism from a phiolosophical point of view ted kalivoda tedr athena cs uga edu institute of higher education university of georgia athens ga
