THANK YOU for understanding this - in order for it NOT to be a parlor trick, in order for Jesus not to be simply a spiritual fishing lure to be cast out then immediately reeled in, you have to accept the idea that Jesus was in fact a HUMAN BEING who DIED. Only then does it make sense - the Trinity then becomes Body, Spirit and Soul - everyone is divine insofar as they have a soul. The soul is the "third way" that connects spirit and body.

Exactly - the original Christians ruined the entire thing right off he bat with the resurrection fantasy.

Of course I think this is a general feature of religion, rather than a reductio ad absurdum - the features of one religion are deficient in precisely the way that will provide the model for the new one. Religious thought is bound to "decentralize" and become human-focused instead of Skygod-focused, and God will evolve into a more subtle concept to meet the needs of the new viewpoint.