The Holy Trinity is:
God, the Father
God, the Son, Jesus Christ
God, the Holy Spirit/Ghost
2006-09-25 22:13:52 · 19 answers · asked by Peripherals 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Scriptures alone quite plainly demonstrate that Jesus and the Almighty are separate distinct persons, and the Almighty created Jesus as His firstborn son.
(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation
(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.
(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God
(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God
(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth
(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak
(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am
(1 Corinthians 15:28) But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him
(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father
(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God
(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.
(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah
(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him
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2006-09-27 15:57:46 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A PROTESTANT publication states: “The word Trinity is not found in the Bible . . . It did not find a place formally in the theology of the church till the 4th century.” (The Illustrated Bible Dictionary) And a Catholic authority says that the Trinity “is not . . . directly and immediately [the] word of God.”—New Catholic Encyclopedia.
What is the origin of the Trinity doctrine?
The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.”—(1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.
In The Encyclopedia Americana we read: “Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching.”—(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.
According to the Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel, “The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches. . . . This Greek philosopher’s [Plato, fourth century B.C.E.] conception of the divine trinity . . . can be found in all the ancient [pagan] religions.”—(Paris, 1865-1870), edited by M. Lachâtre, Vol. 2, p. 1467.
John L. McKenzie, S.J., in his Dictionary of the Bible, says: “The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of ‘person’ and ‘nature’ which are G[ree]k philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which these terms and others such as ‘essence’ and ‘substance’ were erroneously applied to God by some theologians.”—(New York, 1965), p. 899.
2006-09-26 04:27:21 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremy Callahan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe there is God.
Then there is Jesus Christ, the Begotten son of God, in which the Holy Spirit had became man, so as to have a sacrifice of blood in order to forgive man the original sin of Adam.
I believe the Holy Spirit that resided in Jesus Christ, now resides on any who believe.
That would be the Holy Ghost.
2006-09-25 22:22:43 · answer #3 · answered by Honesty is the best policy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, as this encyclopedia explains, the trinity is a
"a deviation from this teaching.”
Any scripture you try to use to teach the trinity, is either a misquote, or a mistranslation of what the bible is teaching.
In The Encyclopedia Americana
“Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching.”—(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.
(Romans 15:4-6) . . .” 4 For all the things that were written aforetime were written for our instruction, that through our endurance and through the comfort from the Scriptures we might have hope. 5 Now may the God who supplies endurance and comfort grant YOU to have among yourselves the same mental attitude that Christ Jesus had,
(What is the mental attitude of Jesus? vs6)
6 that with one accord YOU may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is above Jesus, just as Jesus is above man.
(1 Cor 11:3)
Christians are one with each other just as Jesus is one with his Father, (John 17:11, 21)
2006-09-26 04:25:30 · answer #4 · answered by TeeM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like when you ask me for anwers to certain questions learn through you by the answering youBehold:the great truth,the holy truth,the mystery of God is coming to end.When your looking at me,your looking at the father,the old man/is the first 6.The son of God ,the angel of light/second 6.The HOLY GHOST THE SPIRIT OF GOD is the word of God coming out of the son of God./////////////HOLY HOLY HOLY=H=8 0=6 L=3 Y=7 comes to 24 =2 +4=6
2006-09-25 23:24:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, very much. I'm CAtholic and besides the bible tells me so :)
1 John 5:7, "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."
there is also Matthew 28:19 (kjv)
2 Cor 13:14
YSIC
2006-09-25 22:22:48 · answer #6 · answered by Marysia 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. Because it is Biblical. Jesus Christ himself commanded the Apostles to go and baptise in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
St Matthew’s Gospel ends with Jesus commanding the disciples:
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19)4
That alone should suffice for a Bible verse mentioning the Holy Trinity
2006-09-25 22:18:24 · answer #7 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
no, the bible says jesus sits at the right side of his father & the holy spirit is said to come over people. In a since that we are lead by our knowledge of God. Beliving in the trinity is believing God would pocess your body or that he has mulltiple personalities. Jesus prayed to God in Heaven , so he would have been praying to himself as if he were somewhere else which is crazy which God is Not.
2006-09-25 22:18:00 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No because tha concept came in only after the bible was written.
The bible has been changed through the years
And i am a Muslim now. The Quraan makes sense and theres no trinity in there. The Quraan is still in it's original form
2006-09-25 22:22:57 · answer #9 · answered by Blair Waldorf 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, because Jesus teaches it.
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
I Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!
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2006-09-25 22:17:48 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋