If the Christian God is God, and Jesus (God's son) is God, doesnt that mean Christians have 2 Gods?

Question

Christians say there is only ONE true God, but don't you guys call Jesus God too? I've had many Christains tell me Jesus is God. And what about Mary, the "Mother of God"? Does she count? If you say Jesus is God, and His dad is God, doesn't that mean there are 2 Gods for Christians? Thats not monotheist, its almost Pagan. Whats up with that?

Answer 1

The Triune God existing as God, the Father, God, the Son and God, the Holy spirit. They are three in one. This is called the Trinity of God. We humans have a hard time trying to understand this. We try to understand the Omnipotent, Infinite God using the tiny brain cells that He gave us. There are some things that we just need to accept and move on. Trying to understand God in all His glorious fullness with our pathetically finite minds is like trying to fly along with a fighter jet while riding on your little bicycle.

Answer 2

Dear Juniper,

I will try to give an answer that I hope can resolve your confusion. The Bible asserts that God is one in "essence," and three in "persons." Or, put another way, God is one "what," and three "whos." While this may seem paradoxical, it is not contradictory.

To violate the law of non-contradiction, the assertions would need to claim that God is one in essence and three (or any number besides one) in essence, at the same time and in the same relationship. Or the law of non-contradiction could be violated if the claim was that God is three in persons and one (or any number besides three) in persons, at the same time and in the same relationship.

Look carefully at the assertions stated above, and you will see that they are not contradictory. The assertions claim that God is "one" in one thing, and "three" in another thing. This is no more of a contradiction than saying that water is one in "chemical" (i.e, H2O), even though it can be three in "state" (i.e., solid as ice, liquid as water, and gas as steam).

A summary of the historic Christian teaching would be that there is only one God in essence. Additionally the Bible makes the following assertions:
(i) The Father is God,
(ii) The Son (Jesus) is God, and
(iii) The Holy Spirit is God.
It also asserts that
(a) The Father is not the Son,
(b) The Father is not the Holy Spirit, and
(c) The Son is not the Holy Spirit.

Notice that if you applied the water analogy to these assertions, you would say that
(wi) ice is H2O,
(wii) liquid water is H2O, and
(wiii) steam is H2O.
Additionally,
(wa) ice is not liquid water,
(wb) ice is not steam, and
(wc) liquid water is not steam.

So although I may not fully grasp how it is that three distinct persons share the same essence (since I'm accustomed to thinking of one person for one essence), there is not a logical contradiction that keeps the historic Christian view from being monotheistic.

Answer 3

two gods is exactly what christians believe. the old testament directly contradicts the new testament. YAHWEH, the old testament god said, and i quote, "THERE WILL BE NO GODLY FORMS BEFORE ME, NEITHER WILL THERE BE AFTER." "forms" being the operative word. jesus would be a "form". in other words YAHWEH is, and has always been, the only god. not once, in the old testament, did the almighty say he made anyone to equal him. close to him. he is a very jealous god. he killed his own people for this infraction. knowing this, YAHWEH, also said "NO MAN CAN ATONE FOR ANOTHER MANS SINS." think about it. if jesus is not a god, then hes a man, and a liar. these 2 direct quotes, alone negate ANYTHING jesus ever said. besides, jesus is out of his element. jesus is greek. YAHWEH is hebrew. jesus is a pagan god, his holidays and rituals are pagan. jesus is a false god YAHWEH never knew. or wanted to know.

Answer 4

God is a kingdom. At the present time that kingdom consists of two members, the most high God (the Father), and the Logos, the Word (who became Christ) (John 1:1-8).

Yes you could say 2 Gods.

You could also say 2 sheeps (but the "s" doesn't really belong on the end because "sheep" is also plural. By the same token the Hebrew word for God (Elohim) is also plural.

Answer 5

Roman Emperor Constantine was a pagan and adopted paganism as his universal (catholic) religion. And, to do so, his council corrupted the bible to make it fit his pagan doctrine of multiple deities.

Isaac Newton discovered this corruption in the 18th Century:

"An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture is a dissertation by the English Mathematician and Scholar Isaac Newton. First published in 1754, twenty-seven years after Newton's death, it reviewed all the textual evidence available from ancient sources on two disputed Bible passages, at 1 John 5:7-8 and 1 Timothy 3:16."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Historical_Account_of_Two_Notable_Corruptions_of_Scripture


As a result, Isaac Newton rejected Trinitarian doctrine and became a Unitarian (Jesus is not God).

Answer 6

Jesus is God's Son. The trinity is the "Body of Christ" Which is the creator, the reedemer, the sustainer. God created us, Jesus redeems us, and the holy ghost sustains us. Those three things make up God. u could also say that it is The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost, they are the things that make up one God. Jesus is God's son, but he isn't God, he's God's Son. Mary has nothing to do with this, she was chosen by God to bear his Son, she is not a God. God is our only God, he is our creator and he is the one and only God

Answer 7

No. The Christians believe that God is God and Jesus is his son, but not another God. Jesus is called "The Son Of God".

Mary is the Holy Mother in the Catholic religion.

There are a wide variety of interpretations of this trio, but that's about the size of it.

Answer 8

No silly, thats not how it goes. I think it says in the Bible that God created Jesus to be his physical vessel on earth. Thats why the holy trininty; God is The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit

Answer 9

Just like I am a Mother, a sister, a wife....God is a trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God resides in Heaven, Jesus is our intersesor to Heaven and the Hold Spirit lives inside us to guide our lives.

Answer 10

A soccer team. You support a team for example. "Yes I Love Chelsea FC!" ...It's ONE team. Look closer and that ONE team contains many individuals.

God. It's ONE God but contains three individuals. No Mary isn't God because she was Human, so was Jesus but He came from Heaven to the earth and back again. Mary was created here ON earth.