Trinity

"God and Jesus." A couple of people recently have used this expression - and not as an expletive. Another one on Facebook today made it a trinity and so I decided to have a serious think about this. My immediate reaction is that is implies that Jesus is not God. I notice that people often talk about Jesus to children perhaps because the stories of his life on earth as recorded in the Gospels are tangible whereas the concept of God may be more abstract. I wonder if this is where the dichotomy begins.
The early church fathers (and mothers) struggled with the person of Jesus and his divinity/humanity and so do we. But if we believe Jesus is the divine in human form, then to talk of Jesus AND God is a nonsense. Jesus IS God.
Then, of course, there is the question of trinity. The plot thickens. To talk of "God and Jesus" ignores the Spirit of God, imaged in so many ways as brooding bird, fire and wind, companion on the journey....
The traditional way of speaking of the Holy Trinity is as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but there are many others eg Creator, Lifegiver, Sustainer. Whichever way is used each of the three is God ie God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.
I am no theologian (that may be obvious) but the way we use words shapes our thinking and so wise choices are important.