trinities

Umm… is there any other way out?

A wise comment from the late great patristics scholar R.P.C. Hanson, in this book.

Eusebius of Emesa in one of his discourses has quite a long passage about allegorizing. He allows that it cannot altogether be rejected but he is very cautious about its use. It tends to read meanings into the text which are good in themselves but are simply not present in the text. It can be an illegitimate short cut. A man who is bound or who is in prison is anxious to be free by any means, but not all means are right. Had all ancient interpreters of the Bible followed this advice, subsequent generations would have been saved the necessity of reading a great deal of nonsense. (p. 829, emphases added)

The history of hermeneutics alone demonstrates that this is not the best possible world.