The Trinity explained through simple math

...and without the use of strange, multisyllabic Greek words. First, a little background.

St. Patrick tried to explain the Trinity with a shamrock (three leaves, one stem). Others have cited the three forms of H₂O (water, ice, steam), the three main parts of an egg (shell, yolk, white), or three relationships a person can have simultaneously (someone's son, someone's husband, someone's father, or to change genders, someone's daughter, someone's wife, someone's mother).

Many people accept these illustrations as valid but people with a longer view of Christianity and its history know and recognize the heresy of Modalism.

How can three be one? How can one be three? It can't, you say. Through simple mathematics, I will now prove that it can.

Not addition, though. Addition proves nothing, because where 1 represents a person of the Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit):

1 + 1 + 1 = 3

That is not the Trinity. It is polytheism, the opposite of the Trinity.

Therefore, friends, let us turn to another part of mathematics. And because the God described in the Book of Genesis said, "I will multiply thee" on many occasions, let us turn to multiplication. Lo and behold, multiplication provides the answer:

1 × 1 × 1 = 1

Think about it.

You may not believe in Christianity or the doctrine of the Trinity or even In God, but you can't deny my math.