Can anyone explain why Christians insist they are Monotheists?

Question

The definition of monotheism is "the belief in one God". The Christians believe in 3 Gods. Even if it is "3-in-1", Christians are still polytheists. I

f you say no, then by that logic, Hindus are ALSO monotheists, as they worship God in different facets. You can't have it both ways. So what's the deal?

Answer 1

Prove to me that actual Christians exist, and I will formulate an opinion on their supposed monotheism. Frankly, I have only ever witnessed or met "poseur-Christians", as none of them are actually Christ-like. Have a nice night.

Answer 2

Hi,

First, I want to thank you for the quote from the Bible..:)

Now about your question. Christianity has its dogmas - one of them is the Holy Trinity - God (Father), Son of God (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Ghost, 3 persons in one. Dogmas are dogmas - the foundations of faith, meant not to be questionned or reached logically by the human mind.

As for the the Hindus, I just have vague info and I prefer not to talk. The only thing that I can tell is there are some voices saying that the Christian Apostoles were forbidden to spread the new religion through the Asia.

Hope that helped.

Have a nice day !

Mirela

Answer 3

The Bible says that man was created in the image of God. The word image would be better translated as shadow. So just as you can examine a shadow of a person and observe some gross images of that person, so too can you examine a person, a "shadow of God" and find roughly some of his attributes. each person is only one person but they are made up of a physical body, a mind, and a spirit. In the same way the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is One God made up of three parts, The mind (The Father), The body (Jesus), and the spirit (the holy spirit). These are all aspects of the same being, but unlike in humans each part is seperable while still remaining part of the whole. This is what I have learned of the Holy Trinity.


Sabrine*: Jesus Does say in the Bible that he is God.

John 8:58 Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."

Here "I AM" is one of the names of God, that is why in John 8:59 Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

Dorie*: The Roman Catholic Church was not the first Christian church. Before Emperor Constantine established Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire the church was what is now refered to as the "early church", in the early church all believers in christianity are refered to as saints and none of them has the power to intercede with God on behalf of another person. That is the Job of Jesus, for He said that he would intercede on our behalf. When Luther Nailed his Theses to the church door it was because in his study of the Bible he learned that the Catholic church had moved away from the true nature of christianity and that someone needed to bring the true word of God back into the lives of the people.

reverenceofme: No one is perfect. I'm not, your not, the only person that ever met God's perfect standard was Jesus, that is the earthly manifestation of God in the flesh. I know that I sin and I try not to sin, but whatever I do by my own power will never be good enough. But, I am a Christian; there are times when I fail miserably at acting Christ-like, so you might call me a poseur-christian, that doesn't make you right, it just gives more reason why I need to rely upon God.

Answer 4

You don't know what you are talking about... Hindu beliefs are very different from Christian beliefs... you may want to actually get some education on the differences between the two before you look stupid asking a dumb question...

Christians believe in 1 God who has three distinct parts... Hindus believe in many different Gods

Answer 5

Actually no they aren't polytheists. Polytheism is the worship of multiple Gods, believing that all of them are separate entities in and of themselves, individuals with no connection to each other.

I would catagorize both Christianity and Hinduism as Pantheism, since they believe that the different Gods (or in Christianity's case the different faces) are all facets of one Divine Being, which is what Pantheism is.

Answer 6

Good question, God, Jesus and the holy spirit aren't one God.
Mathmatically speaking 3 will never equal 1.ie Jesus + God+ Holy spirit.
I would also like to mention that NO WHERE and I repeat, NO WHERE in the bible does Jesus say he is God.
I know the verses you will quote and I am sorry but you aren't looking at the CONTEXT of these verses, please go back and read the verses that come before it and after it.

I would also like to mention that Jesus is no more the son of God than I am the daughter of God.
And that if you think that Jesus is God because of the immaculate conception of Mary, then Adam is a greater God because he was born with no mother and no father!

In the words of the Glorious Quran:

In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[112.1] Say: He, God, is One.

[112.2] God is He on Whom all depend.

[112.3] He begets not, nor is He begotten.

[112.4] And none is like Him.

There is only 1 God and Mohammed is his final messenger.
Peace!

Answer 7

I don't insist on being a Monotheist. I believe that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are separate persons who comprise the Godhead. Call it whatever will make you happy.

Answer 8

Theirs one God with three persons. They're all the same but different as well. It's the wonderful mystery of the Holy Trinity.

Answer 9

Actually there are different views among the christian as well;
1 jesus is god son literally
2 jesus is part of the trinity
3 jesus is god himself
well, i think all the statemnt above will be rise to different set of religion itself.

FOR U WHO IS ABOVE ME , HINDU DO WORSHIP ONE GOD JUST IN DIFFERENT FORM.MAYBE U R THE ONE WHO NEED TO LEARN MORE.

Answer 10

Well... look at it this way... yeah they say it's "3 in 1"... but you have 4 appendages on your 1 person, right? So just consider Jesus and The Holy Spirit to be appendages and it works... they're just parts of the whole.