I thought they said there was only one god, but now theres a triune god?
isn't that getting to close to the polythestic side?
2006-10-01 11:15:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
thats what hindus beleive
bramha has to other parts
shiva
and vishnu
2006-10-01 11:19:06 · update #1
They didn't take math in school they think that
1+1+1=1
2006-10-01 11:17:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. It's not stupid, it's Biblical. It's not Catholic, it's christian. And it's not a superstition, it's a doctrine.
God has chosen to show us three facets, or personas. Persona in Greek is a mask worn by an actor in the theatre. A single actor can play three parts by wearing three different masks during the performance. Obviously, those three personas cannot be onstage at the same time. It's the same with God. The Father stopped interfering in men's affairs some 400 years before Jesus was born. Jesus had to leave in order for the Holy Spirit to come fill His Apostles. And the Holy Spirit will be withdrawn from the earth before Jesus returns.
2006-10-01 18:28:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No..The Trinity was around long before the Catholic Church(1 John 5:7)
2006-10-01 18:18:04 · answer #3 · answered by John G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trinity is not a stupid superstitons of the Catholic Church. It is what the Romans created to make a distinction between them and the Jewish who believe in Christ as a Prophet. Remember Constantinople who decreed to make Christianity as their offical Empire's religion. That was when they could no longer contain the increasing converts among their citizens. However, still very much influenced by the Roman belief on gods and godesses plus his belief on the sun god Helios, so the changes He decreed then was the inclusion of divinity and trinity of God, That god himself went down to earth and took the flesh as a son who sacrificed himself to save his own people from damnation and through all the years after that Roman Catholic has gained the power of infallibility of the Pope that he has the right to make changes within the church dogma without being questioned. Thus the presence of division between the traditional, fundamental, liberal and Modern clicks of cardinals inside the Vatican. They also have created the idea of calling anyone who questions and opposses them to be an "Anti-christ" and accused to be the devil. It is not superstiton, it is a deception.
2006-10-01 18:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity in which the one true God is made up of three separate but equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is shared by most Christian denominations including Roman and Orthodox Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Episcopalians.
All of these groups would state that they are monotheists.
Some non-trinitarian religions like Islam occasionally accuse Trinitarians of polytheism.
With love in Christ.
2006-10-01 22:03:33 · answer #5 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One God....three divine persons of the Holy Trinity
God, the Father....God, the Son....God, the Holy Spirit. Where one is you find the other three. Only One God.
At the end of the Gospels, Jesus Christ himself instructed the Apostles to go and baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, so the idea of the Trinity was around much earlier than any organized Christian church.
Jesus also told them, "If you've seen me you have seen the Father." They are one.
And finally, go back to Genesis and creation. God says, "Let US make man in OUR image." Who was God talking to when He said "US" and "OUR"? It had to be the other divine persons of the Holy Trinity that make up the One True God because these same Books of Moses teach there is only One God and we are not to have any other gods before Him.
2006-10-01 18:18:15 · answer #6 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hes one God 3 parts
Matt 28:19
2006-10-01 18:17:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
has nothing to do with catholics....We worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal. The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten; the Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten; the Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
2006-10-01 18:24:39 · answer #8 · answered by K 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The holy trinity is like water. God is like ice, Jesus is liquid water, and the holy ghost is vapor. All three have the same molecules and are the same thing, just different forms. The holy trinity is one god.
2006-10-01 18:18:45 · answer #9 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
picture the Trinity like a 3-leaf clover. 3 different leaves all part of the same plant. it's not a perfect representation, but our finite minds can't totally comprehend the concept.
that's where faith comes in!
2006-10-01 18:19:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋