53 Holly,

You said:

It’s dawning on me that I’ve always been taught and seen the Trinity in a hierarchical way,

1) God the Father
2) God the Son
3) God the Holy Spirit

even while at the same time saying that they are Equal and One…

1) God the Father 2) God the Son 3) God the Holy Spirit

and I’ve always been “ok” with this… yet it’s not even logical when I really think about it 🙁

Don’t feel bad, I think we all have come to understand that we have accepted and believed things that we didn’t properly evaluate. I am just so glad that you are relooking at these things and seeing why your former understanding was not logical. I remember the time when I started to look through the Genesis account of Adam and Eve and questioning why I had accepted as truth so much that wasn’t written in the Scriptures. When it finally dawned on me that I had just accepted things as fact that really made no logical sense at all, I was so amazed that I had fallen for these traditions. And when I started to share my questions with others, they too were finally able to see the contradictions for themselves that they had believed. I really think that God is so patient with all of us as we take time to really get it.