The argument over the characteristics of the Trinity is what has driven wars between factions within Christianity since its inception. Its a stupid debate and the source of much hardship worldwide. One more Christian mythology.

Because they had to continually make up shit to make all their beliefs "fit".
What they have now is a big pile of illogical and contradictory hogwash.

In Bill Maher's movie Religulous, I remember a scene where he's talking to a Jesus impersonator and Bill brings up the holy trinity. The Jesus impersonator likens the holy trinity to water. Water can be a liquid, solid, and gas. What makes up water (hydrogen and oxygen) doesn't change but the form (or state of matter) does.

I always thought that was a neat simile. Complete bullshit but neat.

The original super glue

They call it the "Mystery of the Holy Trinity" as it's three gods in one. They consider it just one god in three forms you might say.

It's very simple, 3 in 1, you know, like the oil. ?

Don't expect logic or reason, the whole point is to make it difficult, so that those in control of the religion have a baffle screen to hide behind when they want to, and so that they can claim to be special because they claim to understand it, which helps to keep the sheep in the pen.

You are trying to apply logic and consistent terminology to mythological horseshit. That rarely ends well.

Yep. that's more than one. But the fantasy doesn't end there either.

Good question. Those are 3 gods, not one. Christianity is a tritheistic religion.

The doctrine of the trinity is presented as a paradox. God is said to be three persons in one ("three! three! three persons in one!" ).

Jesus as the son of god was borrowed from other, older religions, like Mithraism, and from Hellenistic influences. The Old Testament's early books also speak of a "heavenly council" of which Jehovah was the leader, revealing the Jewish religion's evolution from polytheism to monotheism.

The early church fathers invented the trinity doctrine to hand-wave away these polytheistic influences and solidify Christianity's pretensions to monotheism. As an evangelical I simply thought of them as three aspects or expressions or personalities of a unified single god. God's justice and purity were expressed as the father, his comfort and support as the Holy Spirit, his mercy as Jesus.

Great question!

It's religion and you are looking for it to be logical in someway. LMAO. Just accept some people are just nuts and to expect them to do anything in an unnutty way, is nuts.

2+2=5
1+1+1=1

Yeah. One of the reasons that helped the rise of Islam after the cat church threw out a number of eastern xtion sects.
Great dialogue in Things Fall Apart when an African village elder compared Christianity with their religion and their little gods being like saints and angels.

Perhaps because Monotheism was loosely adapted from a combination of the Ancient Egyptian system of Amun, Osiris and Horus ( the Trinity of Egyptian Elemental Beings, not Gods as deemed by the Catholic Church), i.e. Amun=the Father of Everything, Osiris= Son of Amun and Horus, the Guardian Spirit of Light, Knowledge and Harmony, mixed in with a very liberal dose of the Aten Ideology of Akhenaten which was, historically speaking, the birth of Monotheism.
Later, Titus Josephus Flavius adapted that idea when he wrote his treatise/history of the 3 Flavians to curry favor with his newly adopted, after being granted manumission from slavery to them, Roman family where he proclaimed them as being the Holy Trinity of the Roman Empire so that they could all be deified.
Xtianity is LONG on twisting things to suit its own purposes and needs but extreme bereft in the honesty and decency to admit that it has merely created itself from mountains of lies and plagiarisms.

IMHO, but it seems to me that most of the mysteries are there to induce mental illness in their victims. To divorce them from reality so that they can be manipulated more easily. It might not have been intentional but it definitely seems to work as if it was.

Christianity believes in other gods. It teaches you to only worship the one true God.
It says worship no other god before me
And
Don't worship false idols.
If all other gods were fake why bother saying the first of you could just say false idols.

If you want to loosen your tight nuts, always use 3 in 1.

They use the simple logic that the three are all part of the same thing. What's so hard to understand about that?

The Big Guy in the Sky, the Dead Jew on a Stick, and the Featureless Ghosty Thingy. All one in the same.

Trinity explanation. Difficult concept but with some omnipotence makes sense.
The son is the power, he is the verb (YHWH power acts uding words and commands, he never do, he says and things happen) , he creates the world (genesis is YHWH giving orders to the world be created) and is the engine.
The father is the brain, he decides what will happen and make the plan he is the stiring wheel.
The pigeon is the fuel, its the ghost that fills the prophets with power and even Jesus only started for real after the holy ghost came upon him.
Basically they are 3 manifestations of the same being.
Ofc understand this description is not the same as believing in it.
Hinduism is kind of the same, many goods there are just aspects of another one.

It depends on who you ask. The trinitarians will tell you "one essence in three persons", therefore monotheist. Some fundamentalists don't believe in the trinity, though.

They are the same, the trinity, As a kid at sunday school I always got a fit of the giggles when the minister started talking about the holy ghost.