I combined the words "absurdity" and "trinity doctrine" on google and came up with the following results:
If a person wants Greek philosophical principles to prevail in what they call the truth, then the Trinity may be used in an absurd way. But if one wants the teachings of the Holy Scriptures (written mainly by Jews) to prevail, then we should jettison the so-called “Trinity doctrine” and send it into oblivion where it belongs.
http://www.askelm.com/essentials/ess041.htm
This concept of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is most absurd! This segments God and splits Him into three persons, each with a status and Spirit; how then can He still be one Spirit and one God?
https://www.holyspiritspeaks.org/gospel/one-true-god-2/
In the case of the trinity doctrine, it ought to be searched and tested to see if it can be true. I've already dealt with it on a scriptural basis (in my Trinity article), showing it to only be a distortion of scripture and basic polytheism, a belief in three gods, despite trinitarian's claims of "monotheism", a belief in a singular deity (from the greek monos meaning single, only, alone (without a companion), and theos, meaning deity). I also dealt with the logical side of it for some time, but in the article I want to share something I read which really sums up the logical absurdity that such a belief as the trinity has to be.
http://www.leavingjesus.net/TC/TorahCreation/Tanakh/trinityabsurd.html
The Absurd (and Unbiblical) Trinity
The idea that God is "triune," or "three in one," is one of the strangest doctrines of the Christian faith.
http://othersidereflections.blogspot.com/2011/05/absurd-and-unbiblical-trinity.html
The Trinity is Absurd
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the Christian doctrine of the trinity is utterly ridiculous. Not only do I find the idea to be unfeasible and nonsensical, but as far as I can tell, it isn’t even necessary for the Christian religion to exist.
http://undeniably-atheist.blogspot.com/2011/05/trinity-is-absurd.html
Another interpretation is that this passage should be studied from a rhetorical perspective; so as not to be an error, but an intentional misrepresentation of the doctrine of the Trinity in order to demonstrate its absurdity from an Islamic perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity
“The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs... In fact, the Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.
[Letter to James Smith discussing Jefferson's hate of the doctrine of the Christian trinity, December 8 1822]”
Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/the-trinity
The Absurdity of the Trinity
Trinitarian doctrine is not designed to actually be sensible but to sound plausible. The above diagram illustrates what the doctrine really expresses. Like a man who tries to detect a how magician's illusion works, but is unable do so, most people are kept in just enough confusion that they are unable to detect how they are being tricked.
http://www.angelfire.com/space/thegospeltruth/TTD/topics/trinityshield.html
Holy Spirit Absurdities
http://www.angelfire.com/space/thegospeltruth/trinity/articles/hsabsurdities.html
Brown admits that "the statement that there are three persons, each of whom is God, while God is confessed as one, simply has to be explained to some extent, as otherwise it seems to be self-contradictory and absurd" (p. 128). I am convinced that modern theologians are aware of the fact that this doctrine contradicts itself and is absurd, but are afraid to admit it openly.
http://www.yahowah.net/the-trinity-controversy
The “two natures” formula had to wait for the fifth century and a new epistemology from an alien Roman/Greek culture to even allow for such a concept that would otherwise have been rejected as an absurdity.
https://trinities.org/blog/how-trinity-theories-conflict-with-the-new-testament/
First, Satan was trying to entice Jesus to worship someone other than Jehovah, an attempt that would have been absurd if Jesus were part of the same God.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2012173#h=4
We explain the absurd claim that Jesus claimed to be the “I am” of the burning bush in John 8.58 as well as the alpha and omega texts in Revelation.
https://restitutio.org/2019/01/24/159-refuting-michael-browns-case-for-the-trinity-1/
For Joseph Bates the Trinity was an unscriptural doctrine, for James White it was that ‘old Trinitarian absurdity,’ and for M.E. Cornell it was a fruit of the great apostasy, along with such false doctrines as Sunday-keeping and the immortality of the soul. {Ministry magazine Oct. 1993 p. 10, Article: “Adventists and Change”, Written by George Knight}
http://www.creation-science-prophecy.com/SDA/SDA.pdf
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