-55--55--55-head of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost, is all one the Glory equal, the Majesty co-
eternal... The Father is God, the Son. is God, and the
liclv Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods,
but one God...
For like as we are compelled by the Christian veri-
ty to acknowledge every person by himself to be
God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic
religion to say there be three Gods, or three Lords.”
This is obviously self-contradictory. it is like say-
ing one plus one plus one is three, yet it is one. If
there are three separate and distinct Divine Persons
and each is God, then thwre must be three Gods. The
Christian Church recognizes the impassibility of har-
monizing the belief in three Divine Persons will the
oneness of God, and hence declares the doctrine of
the Trinity to b, a mystery, in which a person must
have blind faith. This is what the Rev. J.F. De Groot
writes in his book Catholic Teaching: