A Disingenuous Trinity

All too often what Christian pastors teach about the beliefs of other religions and of other sects of Christianity is not what those people actually believe. Like, 100% of the time. Take modalism, for instance. What I believe God's modes are is not what any Christian pastor I have known thinks God's modes are. You have a consciousness which you identify as 'me', right? It is the recipient observer of all your sensory input, and is reading, hearing, and thinking all you are right now, kind of your "inner man." Pastors typically say that there are three such consciences in God, three separate "Persons" equal and working simultaneously independent of each other (though they are each the same God), and they exist separate from creation. The idea in modalism, they insinuate, is that God assumes the roles of these Persons sequentially, being the Father one moment and either the Son or the Holy Ghost the next. I do not think any modalist has ever dreamed such a thing.

Back to your conscious identity. You identify yourself as the person living whatever life you have. But that force of life is a step off from your identity. There is you AND the force of life within your body, the spirit and the soul - or however you would distinguish, define, or delineate them. Not two separate persons, nor three when you include your physical body with all its forces in play. I see God like this, one Being in three MODES. One God: the Ineffable Being with Its consciousness, and Its consciousness in manifestation. There is communication between them just as there is communication between our spirits, souls, and bodies, for we are each one person...in three modes.

Christian pastors insist that the Trinity of God is too difficult for man to thoroughly understand. No, God is just like us. Not that we have made Him in our image, but that He has made us in His.