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Originally Posted by Variable
There's really no point. I've tried before, and nobody here is going to say they get it even if they do.
I don't even believe in it, and I get it fine... it's not like it's some difficult concept.
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I really don't think anyone is being purposefully or spitefully obtuse about this. You're right, superficially the idea is straightforward: Christians believe that God has three aspects which are unique and distinct from one another but nevertheless mere faces of the same entity.
However, you must understand that *even while accepting that this is what Christians believe* Muslims have a very hard time processing this concept because of our notion of tawhid. We look at the "unity of God" in a very different manner, and it is incompatible with making any "part" of God at all distinct from another part, especially to the degree where these parts have distinct personalities. In other words, while the definition of "Trinity-as-unity" is not incomprehensible, to us it is utterly incompatible with pure monotheism.