# Trinity *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 08 Sep 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Sikozu Johnson *08 Sep 2003, 16:22* On Lundi, sept 8, 2003, at 06:33 US/Pacific, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: "Well, it's a little more complex than that. They are One, but not The Same. That is, they are distinct persons who share a single substance, being, and Godhead. I'm not prepared to explain all that right now, but that's the actual orthodox Catholic - and, I'm pretty sure, the orthodox Orthodox - position." It's standard in all existing historic non-Protestant churches, from the Anglican Communion to the Church of St. Thomas of Malabar, bitter theological debates aside. (None had any real theological implications as all evaluated the Trinity in the same way, including Nestorians.) It's part of the Apostolic Creed, a version of which can be found on http://www.grace-walsingham.com/nicenecreed.html Sikozu http://sikozu.blogspot.com/ http://members.cox.net/sikozujohnson/ ****** "I sit for world revolution" Alan Ginsberg, 19 July 1981 ---