| Honestly, I've seen certain comparisons that make more sense than simply that the idea that there are distinct personages in the Godhead automatically means they have to be separate from one another.
The most famous one is just plain old water, H2O. Liquid water, ice, and water vapor are all composed of the same molecule, and all three are perfectly capable of existing in the same place at the same time, as anyone that's seen ice giving off vapor from a glass of water knows (granted, a single molecule within a block of ice is not also in the steam or the water, but the comparison isn't meant to go that deep; that might actually be possible from a quantum physics standpoint, though - especially with how weird elements start acting when they approach absolute zero, whether in general properties or right into Bose-Einstein condensates). Just because the forms are distinct doesn't mean any of them is suddenly not H2O.
IMO, part it is because the West has kind of backed itself into a corner on this one. It's one of the reasons I think incorporating Neo-Platonist and Aristotelian philosophy into the Church was a bad thing, even if it did result in spurring intellectual thought and somewhat heralded the coming of the Renaissance. We've exchanged much of the mystery inherent to Christian faith for clinical logic and empirical philosophy. And those two end up doing a number on some interpretations of Scripture, with the sad part being that those that fall into such traps aren't even aware of the grievous assumptions they're making about Church history.
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