Of course the Trinity is Impossible! Haven’t You Ever Studied Math?

He looked very proud of himself. After all, he had just disproved the Trinity, or at least, he thought he had.

I was doing an outdoor open forum at Arizona State University, taking questions about Christianity from skeptical students in their free speech area. A Muslim undergrad and I had been dialoguing for a while. As a Muslim, he was dismissing the Trinity, claiming that God could not possibly be three in one. Finally, to give his case an extra shot in the arm, my enthusiastic sparing partner shouted out a math equation, probably the one of the first lessons in arithmetic any of us had ever learned: “One plus one plus one equals three! Not, one!”

“Oh,” I said. “Now we’re using math to figure out God. OK. How about this? One times one times one equals one! ”

This is Bob Siegel. Making the obvious, obvious.