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Originally Posted by TopHatter
... when Jesus says that not even he knows exactly when the End Times will occur, but only the Father does, then it's looking like they're not all "co-equal".
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I believe you are right on this point.
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In fact, they're looking pretty unequal because two of your godhead are out in the cold when it comes to the date of probably the most important future event described in the Bible.
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Why are you concerned with equality? The trinity is three parts of a symbiotic whole, each part representing one of three forces needed to complete the whole. It's pure physics, every action (active) produces a corresponding reaction (passive) except modern physics didn't take into account the third, or neutraizing, force which the motivator, such as will. The three parts of this trinity continually change modes, one is active at one moment and passive the next, but all are in motion when one is triggered. It takes some contemplation to understand this and apply it to Jesus' message.
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The Trinity Doctrine is a confusing and self-contradicting jumble of paganism and human theory. (I belive the Catholic Church calls it a "holy mystery"  )
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The church is right to call the trinity a mystery because no one knows how God, one of the essential forces in it came about. The other two, man and his inner spirit (conscience), on the other hand, are held to have been created by God and of God, which is to say from material God made the world of or from which he was made. Hence we are God materially but not yet spirtually, not until we are completed, or form a trinity with him.
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Which is rather ironic, when the Bible says that God is not a god of confusion but a god of order.
Personally I think that the Bible is very accurate.
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The irony is only in how one perceives things. Our disorder is superficial, a layer of unanswered questions, false assumptions, and distractions that blocks us from seeing the order. The great religions were laid down by people who penetrated this layer and obeyed a compulsion to teach other people how to follow them.
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the Bible does a good job of explaining itself.
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It's all there, for sure.