The Mystery of the Trinity

The 'Holy Trinity'  of some Christian sects--God, Christ, Holy Spirit--as a unitary entity that is also tripartite, can be regarded either as a paradoxical mystery, or as incoherent.  Perhaps the contemporary Sense-Reference distinction helps coherently solve the mystery, i. e. 'God', 'Christ', and 'Holy Spirit' are different senses of one and the same referent.  Augustine's thesis that Understanding, Remembering, and Willing constitute a writ small Trinity, at times approaches a similar linguistic solution, e. g. when he suggests that the three are different names for one and the same individual human Soul.  However, he goes further, e. g. when trying to explain that the three function interdependently, one weakness of which is the implication that a temporally-conditioned process such as Remembering is analogous to some aspect of a presumed eternal entity.  In any case, his linguistic analysis only exposes a more fundamental problem for Trinitarians--if Soul is distinct from Understanding, Remembering, and Willing, then, analogously, the Trinitarian deity is distinct from 'God', 'Christ', and 'Holy Spirit'.  In other words, either 'God' is not the Trinitarian deity, or else the word incoherently denotes both an entity and a part of that entity.