in a trinity.
1. How can three be one?
2. It is my understanding that the catholic church are considering adding Mary to the trinity.
Will it still be called a trinity?
Could it not be argued that christians are polytheistic?
2006-07-21 10:02:27 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it's called blind faith and tradition they are noy going to change the trinity to a foursome,and they one is all three because their priest said so and probably their bibles too
2006-07-21 10:27:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Trinity is three in one. And yes, it is possible. It's just God taking on different forms;
(1.)the same as Water, steam, ice...It's all H2O ~ just different forms of it.
I liked the water analogy. It makes sense, and it makes the idea of the TRINITY seem more comprehendable. Someone explained the Trinity to me using this metaphor.
(2.) That's just you trying to get a stab at the Roman Catholics...lol
(3.) No Christians are not polytheistic. Back to #1...One God ~ taking on three different forms.
2006-07-21 17:11:47 · answer #2 · answered by redglory 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians believe in one God. I don't know for sure about Catholicism because I'm Protestant, but I don't think they think Mary is God,.. just a very good woman.
God in the Trinity can be thought of like an egg.
An egg has 3 parts: shell, white, & yolk.
The shell is egg, the white is egg, and the yolk is egg.
The egg is made of 3 parts, but the 3 parts just make up one egg.
Similarly, God the Father, Son and Spirit are 3 distinct aspects of God. They are all God, but they are only one.
2006-07-21 17:10:29 · answer #3 · answered by smartee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wh do people keep confusing this....the Trinity ( notice..singular) is all the one true God...God the Father, God as Jesus Christ, and God as the holy ghost in everyone...all one God! Just in three different forms...it would be very wrong for the catholic church to add Mary because she is not God and she is only a human sinner like all of us...we are not under any circumstance polytheistic...that is against the very foundation of Christianity itself!!!
2006-07-21 17:09:16 · answer #4 · answered by truegrit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disregarding the info on Mary. Three in One is not something for us to understand, because it is out of the realm of this world.
Try to describe an alien without seeing one would be the same quest. Jesus said if you have seen me you haved seen the Father' He is obviously not talking the physical aspect but the spiritual. And the spiritual is not seen except the result, and that is exactly what Jesus gave us. And no we are not polytheistic!
2006-07-21 17:15:17 · answer #5 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three cannot be one - but one can be three. Father, son and Holy Spirit are only titles of the one true living God. As for Mary - well, she was blessed among women and was a good person - but Christ still needed to die for her salvation and she was in the upper room with the others on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2.
There is only one God - Hear O' Israel the Lord our God is one Lord!
As for the catholic church - they do not practice true Christianity - do you wan tto know the plan of salvation? Read Acts 2 - who Jesus is, read John 1:1-14.
The pope is just a man he is not a mediator between us and God - there is only one mediator between God and Man and that is Christ Jesus.
2006-07-21 17:09:24 · answer #6 · answered by Yogi! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The three. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one - but three separte beings. Like an apple is a core, flesh and skin.
We don't have to entirely understand it because we can't - they are in a greater realm and different than what we can see or grasp. We believe by faith that they are in perfect agreement and unity..
Mary was a person, used by God, but not God. She cannot be equal with the Trinity.
We are not polytheistic, but believe in One God in three persons, as stated above.
2006-07-21 17:08:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am christian and there is the three in one thing. You are missing the point, a little. The Holy spirit. The Father. The Son. Are all three aspects of the same thing. Divinity. Not separate from one and other, just the one bit! You can feel it inside. It's the whole of this great creation you are a part of. Good Luck
2006-07-21 17:07:24 · answer #8 · answered by fromdheart 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know how the three are one. We just accept that it is so even if we can't comprehend it. It's much as the early church accepted that there are as many stars in the sky as grains of sand on the beach even though from what they could see with their eyes, there were far fewer. We now know that the description in the Bible is accurate and that those early Christians were right.
2006-07-21 17:09:26 · answer #9 · answered by happygirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics are polytheistic. Like the "heathens" that they slaughtered all over the world because they had many gods for different purposes (god of harvest, moon, sun, etc.), the Catholics also have "Saints" that supposedly fill niche purposes. An idea that they probably adopted from the pagan Romans.
2006-07-21 17:07:57 · answer #10 · answered by theswedishfish710 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blessed is mary among all woman .but she has no part in the trininty whatso ever ,, The Roman catholic church was desinged to make people Hate God , Its the only religion that dos not believe in thier own bible ,Thats a FACT
2006-07-21 17:09:59 · answer #11 · answered by Terry S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋