You count only like this 1+1+1=3 when that is only half of the divine formula. (The other portion is 1x1x1=1)
What? Do you think that God as the Author & Source of Math is only a God of Addition? He is not also the Alpha and Omega of Multiplication?
Yes, our God is a 3-Personage God (1+1+1=3). But he's also a 3-in-1 Personage God (1x1x1=1)
To put it another way, our God is three "Who's" in one "What." Who is God? Father, Son, and Spirit. What is God? ONE GOD.
We see examples of our 3-in-1 God in everyday life. A room, for example, is composed of 3 dimensions--height, width, and depth. Yet it remains one room. Subtract a room's height, and you hae collapsed the room: It ceases to be one.
LDS collapse our God--making Him out to be "no god."
Water is revealed in natural water form, yet water is also more concrete in form like ice [like the Son of God was more "concrete" in appearance to us] as well as more elusive--like vapor [like the Holy Spirit]. Ice=water. Steam = water. Water=water. Three snapshots of the exact same substance.
If you want an excellent biblical snapshot of our concentrated God, look at Col. 2:9: "For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form." May I suggest that all do an online search using Col. 2:9 in conjunction with the word "volume." (volume being tied to a formula of multiplication). You'll find some interesting info.
To put it another way, our God is three "Who's" in one "What." Who is God? Father, Son, and Spirit. What is God? ONE GOD.
Well put. Mormons confuse the "Who" with the "What". That's why when they ask a question about "Jesus praying to Himself", as they put it, as if that somehow 'disproves' the Trinity, all they are doing is revealing their confusion of the Persons and their dividing the indivisible substance of the Deity. There is only 1 God, indivisible, eternal and immutable, the only God who exists and Who says that He knows of no other God.
A radish has the nature of a radish. There is more than 1 radish being with the nature of a radish. A human being has a human nature. There is more than 1 human being with a human nature. With God, though, there is only 1 Being with a Divine nature. There are not 3 (or more) God Beings. The unique nature of this God is a trinuity of 3 Persons (not"3 beings" ). There is none like Him and there will be none after Him. In other words, there is no waiting list to become a God.
Cordially,