Father possesses the identically same nature as does the Son and the Holy Spirit. An orthodox definition of the Trinity, taking from Augustine’s and other church fathers’ insights, then, would assert the following: The doctrine of the Trinity affirms that God’s whole and undivided essence belongs equally, eternally, simultaneously, and fully to each of the three distinct Persons of the Godhead. Now think what this is claiming. It affirms that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit each possesses the divine