One formulation of the Trinity is as follows:
(1) There is one God
(2) The Father is God
(3) The Son is God
(4) The Holy Spirit is God
(5) God is three Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
(6) The three Persons is wholly and entirely God.
(7) Each person is essentially, ontologically (and logically?) necessary and inseparable parts of God
The problem is many Philosophers and Theologians take inseparable parts as separable parts. Consequently, the charge of partialism is leveled. Or a denial that each person is in any sense God. Both criticisms are avoided when each person is understood as essentially, ontologically (and logically?) necessary and inseparable parts of God.
The most charitable stance is to allow any given model to tease out the precise definitions and explanations of the data on their own terms of the model.
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