How is Chrsitianity considered 'monotheistic'?

Question

im just wondering, cos according to islam and judaism, there is only one God, and he has no partners. and christians consider Jesus(PBUH) as the son of God and so that means a partner has been associated with God. so how is this 'monotheistic'? :)

yeah, i know about the Trinity, but then its kinda polygamy isnt it, if Jesus (peace be upon him) is considered the son of God?

and then polygamy contradicts monotheism, doesnt it?

Answer 1

I am a christian and I am not trinitarian, this is an excellent question, seeing that Jews were Gods first chosen people because of their understanding of ONE GOD....
http://www.newfaithchildforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3732

Answer 2

He is one essence with three distinct personalities which is possible due to the fact that He is Spirit and not physical in matter (John 4).

This may be a poor example, but think of a cluster of grapes. 1 cluster, many grapes, a plural unity. What about an egg. There's the shell, the white and the yolk, yet 1 egg. There is undoubtedly mystery in this biblical truth and that is ok.

Who raised Christ from dead? There are separate scriptures which claim that The Holy Spirit did it Others say the Father and finally others say that Jesus raised Himself from the dead. Contradictory, no, confusing, yes.

"Try to understand the Trinity and you will lose your mind, but if you deny the Trrinity you will lose your soul" A. Rogers

Answer 3

I've asked the same question many times to Christians. The response I get most frequently is that there's 1 God, but he has 3 parts. For example, I have an upper body and a lower body, but I'm only 1 person.

By the way, you added a sentence onto your question using the word "polygamy." Did you mean polytheism?

Answer 4

Catholics, not Protestant Christians, believe that Jesus was not actually God, but God's son. A separate person. 1 god in 3 persons. Three separate entities or dieties.
But Protestants believe in just 1 God , Period.
God Almighty, His Word and son, Jesus, And God's Holy Spirit. as all being aspects of 1 God., and there is no such thing as the word trinity any where in the bible.
Every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, that Jesus is the Lord God Almighty.

Answer 5

monothiesm is the belief in the existence of one deity or God, or in the oneness of God.

the holy trinity in Christianity is how chirstians explain the existence of one god, but in three distinct persons. it is not however saying that it is three separate gods.

God is one in that he has no equal or superior. he is the only non-dependent being.

God has always existed in a triune relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

if you think it is confusing, your right. Early Christians had a hard time with it too. this is the reason that the Nicene Creed was made, to settle the issue that God was a trine God. the trinity is never explicitly stated in the Bible, but the implicit evidence of the existence of the triune relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

read russell byrum's Christian Theology, you'll find it in there

Answer 6

There is only one God in the form of three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three person act as one, in that they are in complete agreement on everything; therefore, there is effectively only one God. Jesus is God manifested in the flesh, and it is he that Christian worship. We do not worship the Father or the Holy Spirit because the father has handed over all authority over to the Son who is Jesus Christ. At no time can the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit be separated, and at no time can either one of the three act independent of the other two; therefore, there is only one God. Jesus loves you.

Answer 7

I can see your young and immature mind hasn't had a lot of exercise in spiritual thinking, so answering you would be like flying north for the winter: a total waste of time and energy. You obviously show no capabilities at all in understanding how One God can have more than one aspect to Him, as you probably can't understand how one human being can have so many different aspects to themselves. I might warn you though, that if you don't at least figure that second issue out, the one where one human being has more than one aspect to their psyche, then whenever you do mature enough to have a good relationship with a woman, you'll be in a shittt-load of trouble when she changes her mind and mood in mili-seconds, and wonders why you can't see that all her moods and minds are still her, and she'll dump a neonate like you for a wiser, more mature man. A Real Man. And once you've got the simple task of understanding a woman in her many aspects, then you can take on understanding a man beyond what's hanging between your legs, if you can find it. And once you do that, you might apply all you've found to a non-human being with more power than your small little mind ever dreamed of, and more heart than you'll ever be capable of, and then, maybe then, you might have the possibility of seeing how stupid your question of today is. God Bless you.

Answer 8

It depends on the demonination, but Jesus, God, and The Holy Spirit are often considered to be one and the same under the Holy Trinity theory. That is that Jesus IS God, just God on earth.

Mary, Jesus' mother, was a human, not a god so she is not considered another diety

Answer 9

The Holy Trinity: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
We believe that the Trinity is one being, and that being is GOD. The three different parts of the trinity are just different manifestations of GOD.

Answer 10

The triune God (1 God, three aspects) is one of the core aspects of Christianity. An example would be how one person is simultaneously a mother, lawyer, wife, and friend. Different aspects same person. Yes, it seems more complicated because God's aspects are separated in space and time, but that's just a consequence of the large complications of a divine entity.

But you are right to note that one of the major objections that Islam has of Christianity is the Trinity, because Muslims recognize (as far as I understand) one unchangeable, inseperable God, and thus to them a Trinity must mean three distinct Gods.

Answer 11

Many Christians believe in the Trinity (God the Father, Jesus, and Holy Ghost). However, these are all manifestations of one God so therefore it is monotheistic.