Mathematical illustrations of the...

Mathematical illustrations of the Trinity can take the same line. To the sceptical charge that 1 + 1+ 1= 3 and not 1, Christian apologists have sometimes replied by pointing out that 1 x 1 x 1 =1. But the doctrine of the Trinity is not an excersie in mathematics, even of the most sublime sort. It is not a juggling with numbers, for God cannot be the result either of addition or multiplication.