to describe Him as divisible and composed of parts. This is not the case with the life and speech we attribute to Him. They should then be asked: Since, according to both you and us, God possesses power, knowledge, will, hearing, sight, mercy, and might, just as He possesses life and speech, why have you not made all these hypostases of His? Why have you restricted the hypostases to three? This shows that by affirming hypostases you did not intend to affirm His attributes, for you distinguish these attributes from the hypostases. Rather, you regard the hypostases as parts and components. Exalted is God far above that!”

I say: Since Christian doctrine is internally contradictory, it cannot be rationally conceived, for it has no reality—just as impossibilities cannot be rationally conceived. Christians have therefore become inconsistent in articulating it, with each group interpreting it differently from the others. Likewise, those reporting their doctrine give inconsistent accounts of it. This is why this author stated that, in their view, the hypostases are parts, like the constituent parts of a human being, although other Christians