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of the Godhead. There are two other Persons, the Father and the Holy Spirit."

I interpret this statement to mean that Jesus partakes of a quality called Divinity or Deity, which is shared by two other individuals of the group; thus that he is God only in a partial sense; while he is Divine in a unique sense, yet he is not all of God, for it takes three separate and distinct Persons to constitute God.

I read in the Bible that Jesus is the Son of God; but I do not find there the words "Blessed Trinity," nor any statement of three Persons in one God, that is, as three distinct individualities or entities, as the Athanasian creed puts it, but rather as three distinct phases or manifestations of the one God, for God is one.