Which religions believe that God (the Father) and Jesus (the Son) are two distinct entities?

Question

In other words, that Jesus is actually the son of another Being (God)?

If you say "Christians", please be specific as to which denominations, etc. It is my understanding that most Christians believe in the traditional concept of the Trinity; I am trying to find out which ones do not.

Answer 1

Many Christians--such as Christian Unitarians (a.k.a. Christian Unitarian Universalists), Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), the Christadelphians, Christian Scientists, the Unification Church, Oneness Pentecostals, Iglesia ni Cristo, and others--reject the idea of the Trinity. Islam respects Jesus as a prophet, but does not believe him to be the Son of God, and certainly not God himself.

Answer 2

Rather than list all religions that say God the Father and Jesus are 2 distinct entities, why not see what the Bible teaches on the matter?

At Ps. 83:18, the name applied to the Most High is Jehovah. Did Gabriel tell the virgin Mary that she was to give birth to the Most High? No. He told her she would give birth to the SON of the Most High. See Luke 1:32. So, is Jesus God? No.

Are Jesus and God the Father equal? At John 14:28, Jesus said: "My Father is greater than I am." If Jesus and his Father ARE equal, why would Jesus say his Father was superior to him? 1 Cor. 11:3 says that the head of the Christ is God. How can God and Jesus be equal if Jesus has someone OVER him?

Some religions teach that God is composed of three co-equal, co-eternal persons. To support their view, they will use Matt. 28:19, where the Father, Son and holy spirit are mentioned in the same verse. But where in that verse does it explicitly say they are three co-equal persons that make up one God? I can't see it. Can you?

How about Jesus' words at John 10:30: "I and the Father are one"? Again, where in this verse does it say there are three divine beings that make one God? Again, I can't see it.

Trinitarians refer to the godhead as God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. While the term God the Father is Biblical, would someone please show me where it says God the Son or God the Holy Spirit? I can't find it anywhere.

Rather than teaching a confusing trinity, the Bible shows that Jehovah is the true God, Jesus is his only-begotten Son, and the holy spirit is God's active force. They are not part of a trinity.

Answer 3

I even have given this answer formerly and that i'll apply it back right here. properly think of for your self? What is sensible God is 3 in a million that's the trinity what many christians have self belief or God is One and easily what us Muslim's have self belief. Translation of Surah Ikhlas financial disaster 112 a million: Say he's ALLAH the single and easily 2: ALLAH the eternal absolute 3: He begetteth no longer, neither is He begotten 4: and there is none like unto him The be conscious Trinity isn't even interior the bible even though it is interior the Qur'an and The Holy Qur'an says 'do no longer say Trinity'. Alot of christians quote this verse from a million john financial disaster 5: verse 7 : For there are 3 that bear record in heaven, the father, the be conscious, and the Holy Ghost: and those 3 are one. This has been taken out with the help of the 32 christian pupils of the optimum eminence subsidized with the help of 50 co-working. They took this out via fact it replaced right into a fabrication. in case you visit the Revised generic version of the bible it is not there. The RSV Revised generic version is going back to the main historical instruction manual scripts and the greater historical the greater authentic. so it is greater authentic then the different variations of the Bible. additionally this has been taken out John 3:sixteen - For God so enjoyed the international, that he gave his in basic terms begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him shouldn't perish, ... this replaced into additionally a fabrication additionally i do no longer think of it is sensible to billion's and billion's. some in basic terms take it as a secret which they can't clarify or understand.

Answer 4

Catholics believe that God the father is distinct from Jesus in my knowledge. Also, Muslims believe them to be separate entities completely. Unitarians among the Christians as well as Jehovah's Witnesses also believe in the separation of God and the son of God.

Answer 5

Not so many I must say... For starters:

1. The Jewish religion as well. However, they do not regard Jesus as the Son, nor the messiah.

2. Muslims teach/believe that Jesus and the father (God) are two distinct entities. However, to them Jesus is not the Son of God in the literal sense.

2. Lastly, Jehovah's Witnesses according to the scriptures teach that Jesus was "created" by God (father) therefore is not "equal" to him. Niether is he (Jesus) part of a "Tri-une" gods. (See: Colossians 1:15, "the firstborn of creation”; Rev.3:14,"the beginning [Greek, ar·khe´] of God’s creation"; Compare Proverbs 8:22, " Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago" Asv, Nw, many Bible commentators agree, the Son is referred to as wisdom personified. According to RS, NE, and JB, the one there speaking is said to be “created.”)

Of importance: Some people made mention: "Mormons". However, that fact is incorrect. Like other verses such as Mosiah 3:5 we find reflected the popular TRI-UNITY/trinity doctrine of the churches of Christendom, which churches Joseph Smith considered to be wrong.
Consider a view examples: According to the 'Book of Mormon' at Alma 11:38, 39 says: “Now Zeezrom saith again unto him: Is the Son of God the very Eternal Father? And Amulek said unto him: Yea, he is the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth.” Also at Mormon 7:7 speaks about singing praises “unto the Father, and unto the Son, and unto the Holy Ghost, which are ONE God, in a state of happiness which hath no end.” The Book of Mormon has Jesus Christ flatly saying, at 3 Nephi 11:14, “I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.”
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n conclusion, nowhere does the Bible make such "trinitarian" statements. At no time did Jesus Christ claim to be the “God of the whole earth” or the “God of Israel.” On this point The Book of Mormon contradicts the Bible. Instead of saying that the Father and the Son are one God, the Bible reveals the Son to be a creature who was the beginning of the Creator’s creations and who is subject to the Father even after his ascension to heaven.

This is shown at 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, that God may be all things to everyone.” Rather than claiming to be God in the flesh, Jesus Christ pointed out his dependence upon the Father and his inferiority to him by saying: “I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative; just as I hear, I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.”—John 5:30.

Answer 6

Gnostic Christians believed in many gods (there are still a few around). Gnostics usually consider the Jewish god to be evil, and they think that God the Father of Jesus was a different god than the God of Abraham.

Mormons also believe in multiple gods. They think that God the Father was once a man living on another planet, and that anyone can become a god eventually if he tries hard enough.

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus was the physical incarnation of some angel (Michael, I believe) and was not god.

Muslims believe that Jesus was a human who was called to be a prophet. They do not believe that Jesus was God.

Answer 7

For those who answered "Islam," this religion does not believe that God is a father in any way. And Jesus is a human prophet and not God too.

Answer 8

Jehovah's Witnesses.

Jews and Muslims believe in One God, but they don't recognize Jesus as God's Son.

Ps 110:1 The utterance of Jehovah to my Lord is: “Sit at my right hand
Until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet.”

Answer 9

We all believe ( Christians ) that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are three distinct "persons". Separate- but one.
It doesn't make sense- I know- but they are three of God-

Answer 10

I am Apostolic Pentecostal, and I do not believe this. I know Jesus is God, and there is only one. There is no trinity.