Christians do not believe in three gods. We believe in one God who is three persons. If that sentence feels illegal, good. You are at the edge of a mystery, not a contradiction.
A contradiction would be “God is one person and three persons.” That is not the claim. One being. Three persons. The words are doing different jobs.
You already live with unities that are not piles of the same thing: one family, three members. The analogy leaks, as all of them do. Use it and throw it away.
The Trinity is what you get when you take Scripture at its word instead of sanding Jesus down into a prophet or inflating three deities. The math is not the point. Worship is.
