The Evolution of the Idea of God

god is an abstracted ideal, formulated in large part to dissociate the ideal from any particular incarnation or man. And there's another rule in the biblical stories, which is that when the actual ruler becomes confused with the abstracted ideal, then the state immediately turns into a tyranny. So so that's part of the idea that's driving the notion of the evolution of the idea of god - and even more specifically, driving the evolution of the trinity....