Many people are confused about the Christian concept of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I have heard that some Muslims mistakenly believe that the Trinity consists of the Father, Son and Mother Mary! This is not entirely their fault since unfortunately the Catholic church in general places too much emphasis on the mother of Christ.
The Trinity is not an easy topic to discuss. The word "Trinity" is not found in the bible, and the concept is not explicitly explained, instead we find this paradox to be well documented through Jesus' own testimony of himself, the testimony of the apostles and we even see hints in the Old Testament. Many others will do a much better job at digging deep into the gritty details of the topic. I would check out this blog as a good place to start for more articles and information on the Trinity.
This clip from a talk by Ravi Zacharias helped me a lot.
It shouldn't seem foreign to us that an infinite God is difficult to define. Our own physical world (which God created) has some very difficult phenomenon to define. For instance, the nature of light has been a highly debated subject. Physicists over the past several centuries have conducted experiments and developed theories about the nature of light, some suggesting that light is a particle and others suggesting that light is a wave. In physics we know this as wave-particle duality. If these sort of paradoxes exist in the finite physical world then we can rest a little more easily if an infinite, creator God asks us to believe paradoxes about His nature.
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