I know it might sound weird, but this was an actual lesson taught to me in high school and I just want so see what the catholics think?
2006-07-08 07:25:21 · 17 answers · asked by Chris K 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I realize trinity means three, people, that is the reason I posted this question. jeez....
2006-07-08 07:34:35 · update #1
I was catholic but decided to find a different church. Now I am a misisonary in Asia. It was not a book I was taught from, but a Catholic teacher
2006-07-08 07:37:37 · update #2
What you are describing is not part of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
With love in Christ.
2006-07-08 09:46:32 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This, error in teaching, is not the first time I've heard such things - even worse coming from actual Catholic teachers in the Catholic school system for over 30 years - sorry but true. (Yes, I am Catholic and do recruiting for a Catholic organization)
There are only three in the Trinity, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Mary is not a 'fourth' - she is verated, honoured, but not worshipped nor prayed to as we do with God as she was human in her entirety.
Not sure what high school you went to, but they were grossly in error of the nature of the Holy Trinity.
There's lots you can find that correctly defines the relationship between Mary, God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
I found these in less than 30 seconds on Google. Hope this helps - God bless!!
2006-07-08 07:39:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there are only three persons in the trinity which the word means triune. They are God the Father The Son And the Holy Ghost/Spirit. Mary is fully human not a God and so cannot be God. God is the same yesterday today and tomorrow which would mean the trinity stands. Hope that helps ~A~
PS I would like to know what book you were taught from and are you Catholic? T.C
What mystery, the Father, Son, and Spirit,
In person three, in substance all are one.
How glorious, this God our being enters
To be our all, thru Spirit in the Son!
The Triune God has now become our all!
How wonderful! How glorious!
This Gift divine we never can exhaust!
How excellent! How marvelous!
hymns
2006-07-08 07:34:13 · answer #3 · answered by momsapplepeye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not what Catholics believe. Catholic doctrine is very clear on this point: Mary is not a deity! Nor was she made a "deity" after she died. She is a human person, a very special human person, the Mother of God and the Second Eve. According to the Second Vatican Council: "Advocate, Auxiliatrix [Helper], Adjutrix [Aide], and Mediatrix [Mediator]" and from a doctrinal stand (not yet dogmatict) Coredemptrix. Still though she is a human person, not a God, and not to be treated in anyway shape or form as divine.
Perhaps you were confused on what you were taught, or you were taught very very poorly.
2006-07-08 17:35:18 · answer #4 · answered by Liet Kynes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You were taught wrongly, in fact that sounds like the same nonsense that people preach when they talk about Mary as coredemptress. Please know that neither is a recognized teaching in the Catholic Church. Trinity mean three, as you know. That's the wildest thing I have heard taught in the name of the Church since someone was teaching that Luke was a woman. Strange things people spout off in the name of the Church.
2006-07-08 07:31:43 · answer #5 · answered by Michael R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't heard it said that she was the fourth person of the trinity, but I did read somewhere that Catholics declared her as co-redemptrix with Jesus (although I'm not sure if this is something that all Catholics believe or not)
2006-07-08 07:31:51 · answer #6 · answered by mom1025 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. The Trinity is God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit only. There are a lot of odd mistruths about Catholic beliefs out there.
Mary is considered holy, but not equal to God. She, like the saints, is viewed as a path to God. We do not pray to Mary or the Saints, but rather ask them for their intercession to God on our behalf.
2006-07-08 07:32:13 · answer #7 · answered by Sarah Colleen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By definition if she were the fourth person of the group, it would cease to be a "trinity" which denotes three. The trinity would have to be called the quadinity then. I am unfamiliar with that doctrine though.
2006-07-08 07:29:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trinity is three, not four! In a trinity there can be no fourth! There is no scriptual basis for this faulty idea! Trinity is any group of "three" closely related members!
You may want to look into "Our Lady of Fatima"
2006-07-08 07:31:55 · answer #9 · answered by citizen ex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mary? Christianity? Jesus? Dying?
What is the Imacculate Conception supposed to mean?
(NOT A VIRGIN BIRTH! - betcha never knew that.)
Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .
If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.
Gods do not die? Do they?
If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?
Did Jesus give up Saturday for us? Big deal!
If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.
If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!
If you swallow this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to swallow it too.
Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.
Believing and not thinking is like choosing a mental illness and becoming lost.
2006-07-08 07:29:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋