re: Is the Christian God the same God of Judaism?

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I use the H2O analogy...water, steam, and ice are three distinct manifestations but in their essence, they are all H2O..

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I understand the desire to do that, but as I said previously, pretty much all analogies used tend to do more harm than good in explaining the Trinity.

The example of water (water, ice, and steam) actually teaches the ancient heresy of Sabellianism, otherwise known as Modalism. This heresy teaches that God is essentially one person that manifests himself in three different ways at different times; sometimes as the Father, sometimes as the Son, and sometimes as the Spirit, just as water cannot be water and ice at the same time, or ice and steam at the same time. A few folks in this very thread actually seem to understand God in this very way.