The Son and the Spirit are equally called "God" because they share fully in the one divine nature that originates eternally from the Father. 3. Dissolving the Contradiction
By applying this distinction, Branson neatly avoids the trap of the LPT. The statement "The Father is God" uses the word "God" as a proper name (identity). The statements "The Son is God" and "The Spirit is God" are predicative (attributing a nature or status). Branson(2022)
Because the "is" in these statements does not mean the same thing, the logical contradiction vanishes without having to rewrite the rules of standard logic. There is no violation of transitivity because the Son is not being claimed as identical to the specific entity that the Father is. 4. Gregory of Nyssa and Action Theory The Son and the Spirit are equally called
), these statements violate the transitivity of identity. If must equal The statement "The Father is God" uses the