Why do Christians believe in three different Gods?

Question

Isn't God one? how is 1 three?

just wondering

[please do not attack me for who I am, rather answer my question]
thanks..

Answer 1

JUST PRESENTING MY PERSPECTIVE.. NOT TO OFFEND MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS HERE
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This is called as blind belief.

one person, God the Father + one person, God the Son + one person, God the Holy Ghost = one person, God the What?

1+1+1=3 NOT 1

1*3 =3 NOT 1

If God is the Father and also the Son, then He would then be the Father of Himself because He is His own Son. This is illogical!

they believe because they are told to believe blindly, and God forbids us to believe blindly.

And do not follow (blindly) any information of which you have no (direct) knowledge. (Using your faculties of perception and conception, you must verify it for yourself. (In the Court of your Lord,) you will be held accountable for your hearing, sight, and the faculty of reasoning."[Quran 17:36]



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FURTHERMORE..........................
The Bible does not support the Christian belief in trinity at all. The word "Trinity" does not exist anywhere in the whole Bible, but it is mentioned in the Glorious Qur’an


chapter 4 verse 171
"Say not ‘Trinity’: desist:
It will be better for you for
Allah is one God."
[Al-Qur’an 4:171]



Quran says in Surah Maidah chapter 5 verse 73
"They do blaspheme who say
Allah is one of three
In a Trinity: for there is
No god except One God.
If they desist not
From their word (of blasphemy),
Verily a grievous penalty
Will befall the blasphemers
Among them."

Answer 2

The Father, The Son, and the Holy Ghost. 1+1+1=3

Answer 3

I agree with Taimur, his argument is solid and he's got his head on straight. I also like that he's very respectful of everyone.

John 20:17 (New American Standard Bible)
17Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'"

Question: Does God have a God? The answer is no of course. If Jesus was God, then how could he say he has a God?

1 John 5:7 (KJV)
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

This is the only Biblical "proof" of the trinity. However, this was added to the New Testament centuries after Jesus came. Therefore, this bit is not real Scripture, but added by man. The one who added it had to face God for doing so. Don't believe this, it's false. It also has a name, the Comma Johanneum. There is no evidence that the Comma was in any original Greek manuscript. The earliest it appears in the Bible is in the 10th century as a side note, and in the 16th century it was inserted into the body of text.

One Supreme God, no partners with God, so no trinity.

Answer 4

You mean the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit? The Holy Trinity - it is as if God is so powerful he was able to divide himself into three to serve different purposes, I guess. They are not three different Gods, they are One God.

Maybe this will explain it to you - take me for example - I am a Mother to my two children, a Wife to my husband and a student who is doing a degree. But I am still just me! Three different parts of one person.

I am an atheist by the way but when I was a child I was christened and confirmed as a christian.

Answer 5

Well, this is probably one of the most dificult things to understand even for christians. The whole three in one thing is called the trinity. It says that The father, The son, and The Holy Spirit are all one in three different bodies. It is one of those things that takes faith to believe. To our minds it is theoretically impossible, but the bible does not lie so through faith I know that it is true.

1 John 5:7
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word (Jesus), and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Answer 6

God is one. Roughly the same way I am one. I am a father, and I am a son, I am a brother and a cousin and a nephew and a friend. I am all these, yet I am still one.

Your question is faulty to begin with. When you say "Why do..." then you make the assumption that the following question is true. Kinda like "Why did the dinosaurs die off millions of years ago?" You're assuming that they did.

You should as instead "Do Christians believe in three different Gods?" and "Did dinosaurs die off millions of years ago?" Those questions are more legitimate.

Answer 7

They DON'T believe in Three Gods. You are thinking of the Trinity where Three are all one. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost/Spirit are ALL God. They are just three forms of the same God.

Answer 8

I believe in Almighty God , Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit but not that they are one person , they are not equal in power and Holy Spirit is not a person

Not until the fourth century C.E. did the teaching that the holy spirit was a person and part of the “Godhead” become official church dogma.

Early church “fathers” did not so teach; Justin Martyr of the second century C.E. taught that the holy spirit was an ‘influence or mode of operation of the Deity’;

Hippolytus likewise ascribed no personality to the holy spirit.

The Scriptures themselves unite to show that God’s holy spirit is not a person but is God’s active force by which he accomplishes his purpose and executes his will.

It may first be noted that the words “in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” (KJ) found in older translations at 1 John 5:7 are actually spurious additions to the original text.

A footnote in The Jerusalem Bible, a Catholic translation, says that these words are “not in any of the early Greek manuscripts, or any of the early translations, or in the Vulg[ate] itself.

A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, by Bruce Metzger (1975, pp. 716-718), traces in detail the history of the spurious passage.

It states that the passage is first found in a treatise entitled Liber Apologeticus, of the fourth century, and that it appears in Old Latin and Vulgate manuscripts of the Scriptures, beginning in the sixth century.

Modern translations as a whole, both Catholic and Protestant, do not include them in the main body of the text, because of recognizing their spurious nature.

Answer 9

There are not 3 different Gods. There is the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost ( Spirit). There is only one God, the Father. This is the holy trinity that you are getting confused with.

Answer 10

It's an interesting question. I believe most Christians would say that they believe in one all-powerful God who reveals himself to us and interacts with us through three different forms - God the Father (in heaven), God the Son (Christ as God in flesh on earth) and God the Holy Spirit (the will/words of God acting on the hearts and minds of his followers). Different sects of Christians have varying beliefs on what these different "forms" are and how they work.

Answer 11

in there eys there is only one God who has like three different names/jobs. God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

what i dont get is how God the Father said "This is my beloved son in whome i am well pleased" right after Jesus Christ was baptized, and the Holy Spirit was in the shape of a dove. How can they all be the same person? Impossible! there all 3 different people working on one plan, the plan of salvation.