
This is a pretty simple illustration of the logical problem at the core of mainstream orthodox Trinitarianism:
http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-trinity-as-contradiction-of-basic.html
One response, of course, is to say “It’s a mystery.”
Fine. But it remains logically incoherent.
Which is a bit of a problem.
“And this is life eternal,” declares Jesus himself in John 17:3, “that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
If, however, God is essentially unknowable — if the relationship between God the Father and the Son is both essential and logically incomprehensible — eternal life seems pretty much out of reach. But that would seem to contradict a fundamental message of Christianity and the New Testament.