[Serious] The Trinity

[zwanzig]

If there are any who are willing to explain what the trinity is and who Jesus Christ is, in relation to God "the Father", I'd very much appreciate it. How can they be the same being? I find this concept very contradictory and confusing and it frustrates me to try to do research on it. I'd like the human interaction and to be able to ask questions. 

I know, Christians probably get this question a lot and it might be tiresome to explain it yet again, especially when I am not going to be converted. But anyone who is patient and feels up to it, I'd like to discuss it and at least logically understand what the canon lore is. If it is possible.

Useless Background:

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After I abandoned Mormonism, I spent a little time on a Christian forum. I felt like I had experiences as a Mormon that were spiritual and I couldn't yet conceptualize my life without a belief in Christ. So, I searched for answers, tried to fill in the holes that Mormonism had left. In the end, I decided I was atheist, mostly because of their open acknowledgement of the history and construction of the Bible, yet they expressed a dependence upon the modern text as the word of God and a literal historical account(possibly there wasn't direct overlap for those who knew the history and authorship of the texts and those who took the text literal, but I find it troubling that these conversations were happening all in the same threads and it didn't shake literal belief in the text). There are many reasons I am an atheist now but that was one of the things that made me finally give up any belief in the Bible or any religion that uses it.

Anyway, Mormons are pantheistic. They think Christ was the literal son of God, a separate spiritual entity as well, and that he holds just as much authority as God. So, when Christians say, the son IS the Father, I don't know how to make the pieces fit.

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