Trinity

=== Trinity and Christian apologetics ===
Today, several analogies for the Trinity abound. The comparison is sometimes made between the triune God and [[H2O|H<sub>2</sub>O]].<ref name="Jonas2010"/><ref name="Seamands2009"/> Just as H<sub>2</sub>O can come in three distinct forms (liquid, solid, gas), so God appears as Father, Son, Spirit.<ref name="Jonas2010"/><ref name="Seamands2009">{{cite book|last=Seamands|first=Stephen|title=Ministry in the Image of God: The Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5MX3M03qcGIC&pg=PA97|date=20 August 2009|publisher=InterVarsity Press|isbn=9780830876358|page=97|quote=Christians have always used various analogies to help make sense of the Trinity. Water, for example, can exist in three different states, as liquid, steam or ice. It is once substance (H<sub>2</sub>O) yet appears in three distinct forms.}}</ref> The mathematical analogy, "1+1+1=3, but 1x1x1=1" is also used to explain the Trinity.<ref name="Jonas2010">{{cite book|last=Jonas|first=W. Glenn|title=Christianity|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=9780881462043|page=241|quote=Popular analogies for the Trinity abound. The comparison is sometimes made between the triune God and H<sub>2</sub>O. Just as H<sub>2</sub>O can come in three distinct forms (liquid, solid, gas), so God appears as Father, Son, Spirit. Or just as the sun cannot be separated from its rays of light and its felt heat, so the Son is the ray of the Father and the spirit is the heat of God. Or, to use a mathematical analogy: 1+1+1=3, but 1x1x1=1.}}</ref>