====== God exists outside Father, Son, and Spirit ======

===== Assumptions =====
  * [[The Laws of Logic hold universally]]
  * [[Christianity#Distinctive, characteristic beliefs|Christianity's distinctive, characteristic beliefs]]

===== Reasoning =====
  * [[the Son and the Spirit are mere emanations from the Father]]
  * [[emanations of a thing are not the full thing in itself]]
  * [[if something is not the full thing, there is more outside of it]]
  * [[if there is God outside of the Son and the Spirit, there may as well be God outside the Father]]
  * [[if there is God outside all three members, then God exists outside the three members]]
  * If the above is true, [[]]
∴ [[]]


==== Definitions ====

==== Analogies ====

==== Notable Supporters ====
Gnosticism

====== Counter-Argument ======
[[god_does_not_exist_outside_father_son_and_spirit]]


====== Talk ======
Is this the argument as Gnostics would present it?
This is not a proof: the use of "may" makes it more of a suggestion.