For Christians is it one God or three? If it is one why mention the other two?

Question

If the Father, the Holy Sipirt and Jesus are all Gods should there be 3 different prayers one for each? Why all prophets before Jesus asked there people to worship God alone? If Jesus is the one who taught Christians how to pray, then who taught Christians to pray by making the cross sign? If the cross is the sculpture that Jesus suffered on and crussified, shouldn't Christians hate it rather than take it as a symbol? Who created the univers? If Jesus Christ is the son of God and his name is Jesus Christ what is the Father's name? Being the mother of God is virgin marry a God too? What about Her parents are they Gods too or humans? Did Jesus Christ eat? Sleep? Work to get food? If human beings wouldn't let any one hurt or humilate them in anyway, how God All MIGHTY allowed earthly people to crussify him?

Answer 1

Undoubtedly one of the hottest areas of debate in discussions between Christians and Muslims is the Christians dogma of the Trinity. Almost invariably, Muslims are convinced that Christians believe in three, separate deities, whilst Christians are adamant in affirming their absolute commitment to monotheism. Without question, the concept of the Triune deity - indeed, the whole doctrine of God - is difficult to understand, but this difficulty is unnecessarily accentuated if an uninformed or incorrect view of Christian dogma is held by Muslims. The purpose of this paper is to set the record straight, and also to compare and contrast aspects of the doctrine of God in both religions.........

Answer 2

So many questions, so little space to answer adequately.

The Godhead comprises the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. God the Father is the God of all, yet He has divinely authorized Jesus Christ to create and govern in His name. The Holy Ghost manifests the truth of the Father and the Son to those willing to humble themselves and through this Holy Spirit, comes inspiration, love, and the fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Many Christian faiths do not use the sign of the cross as the Catholic Church does, yet they display it in their chapels. One Christian faith, the LDS Church, does not display the cross. We reverence it, but place our emphasis on Christ's resurrection rather than the way he suffered and died for all of us. It's the same as carrying with us a photo of our parents in their casket.

The crucifixion of Christ was in the Plan of Salvation that God the Father proposed to His children in the preexistence. Jesus accepted, giving all the honor to the Father. Without this Atonement that Jesus gave, all mankind would lie in their graves at death and their departed spirits would forever be miserable.

Christ was the Holy One that created the universes, this world, and others through the divine investiture of the Father.

And last, Jesus, during his mortality, did all that we must do in our lives in eating, sleeping, working, praying, and so forth. The parents of Mary, Jesus' mortal mother, does not have godly parents.

Answer 3

I love a bunch of questions at once!
I will take it one step at a time,
1) Christians are monotheists, and Trinidadians. We believe in one God in three Persons.
2)No, there isn't nor needs be three different prayers for each of them. I pray to God the Father, thanking Jesus Christ for allowing me to, and thanking the Holy Spirit to fill my life, all one prayer.
3)People prayed to God alone because God is one, but in three persons. Christ, and the Holy Spirit were not on the "scene" during that time. Although Jesus made a few appearances.
4)I don't know much about the tradition of crossing one self, other than just to show reverence to the cost the cross represents.
5)Christians shouldn't hate the cross, it was by the work on the cross that we are saved.
6)God created the Universe
6)The Father's name is Jehovah
7)Mary is not, was not nor will be a god
8)Mary's parents were humans
9) Jesus did eat, sleep, and work to provide food.
10)God allowed people to crucify Him because of His will to free humans from death and sin.

Answer 4

Lots of questions there but I'll try-- The One God is divided into three seperate entities. Christians don't pray making the sign of the cross--Catholics do. Jesus was fully human AND fully divine. Mary was just a human and is not to be worshipped. Jesus allowed our sins to keep him on the cross(those nails never could have held the Son of God there). Jesus died and rose again so that we might one day go to heaven with Him forever.

Answer 5

You have a lot of questions here. To answer most of them, you must understand that many people have their own opinions, but also understand that the basis for Christian belief is in the Bible. Not everyone who professes to be a Christian actually reads the Bible.

As to how many Gods there are, there is One God - the same God of the Old and New Testaments. This is the God whom the Jews refused out of reverence to spell in human letters and only wrote "YHWH" in their ancient texts, and many translate this to "Jehovah" or "Yahweh". The term "God" is his title, as a human is called a "Man." He is a Father - as men are fathers. He came to earth for a while to live among his creation as a man, and then was called "the Son of God" - which means "begotten" in the old way, or "born from". While on earth in human form he took the term "Son" and still today, as a part of himself in heaven ruling as King, he is also referred to as "Son". When the Son went back to heaven, he left his "Spirit" behind with men, in a sense. We don't see his human form, but know that the Spirit of God still is active among mankind, while he also watches apart from men, being a holy God and not a man any longer. So he is a Father, a Son and a Spirit, in the same way that men are fathers, sons and spiritual beings themselves.

As to you other questions, I'd suggest you find a Bible reading Christian and seriously sit down to find the answers, rather than asking open forum. You might find it easier to understand when you can talk with someone.

Answer 6

Wow, that's a loaded question. He is one, the Holy spirit is our comforter that He left for us, but it's God in a certain form. Jesus is our access to God, He was God in the form of man, still one God. We're only worshiping one God, but He's not limited to who He is for us. For instance, for some He's a mother, father, doctor, lawyer, etc. He's our everything. The Cross is a place of victory, not defeat because it was there that the bondages of sins had been defeated and He defeated satan because He arose with all power. Jesus is considered the son also because came as the form of man. NO Mary is not a god, she was just being used to carry out God's plan. Yes, Jesus is very much God but He was very much human because He came through human vessel. Lastly, He allowed people to crucify Him because He came here to die. There had to be a shedding of blood (perfect, without spot or blemish) that could atone for our sins, which are great. The blood of goats, or other animals were not enough anymore. Good questions. I hope I did some justice in my feeble attempt to answer some of them.

Answer 7

The God of the 10 commandements is the only God and God is a Jealous God and Jesus said put God above your Mother, Father, Son and Daughter.

The Holy Spirt comes from God.

Jesus came from God.

Answer 8

God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost are all one together, that forms the trinity. But separate they accomplish everything needed to not only exicute God's plan, but see it through all the way to victory of completion of that plan.

God the Father is the creator and over seeier of this great plan.

God the Son, came to us in the form of a human to be introduced to us, and to teach us God's laws and message and instruction, which again.... is applied to God's plan.

God the Holy Ghost is who convicts our hearts, and lives within us and guides us thorugh out our lives as Christians when we accept Jesus as our savior. Jesus will only knock on the heart's door that the Holy Ghost chooses at the time of choice. Then we have the freedom to choose to open our heart and invite Jesus into it thorugh accepting Him as our savior.

The plan that God has is to get together the best of the best true Chrsitians who willingly give up a life on their own for an eternal life with Jesus as His bride, to become His wife in heaven.

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

Revelation 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

And what a glorious and awesome life that will be, and I am going to be a part of it. Praise the Lord!! A perfictly tuned machine needs different parts to do different things to accomplish the finished product.

This is the same sinario with God. The trinity working together doing different tasks to accomplish God's perfect plan for the perfect wife for His perfect son Jesus. Prasie the Lord!! This is the way God chose to do this.

Answer 9

Wow, you pack a lot into one question, don't you? Ok, here goes...

1. The whole concept of the Trinity is NOT found in the Bible. It can be really confusing, I know. The actual concept came about centuries ago, as men tried to "explain" God; generally a BAD idea, I think. I've tried to do some homework on it, and this is the best explanation I have heard:

To understand the concept of the Trinity (One God, expressing Himself in 3 persons), let us consider our sun. The sun is a star, it is one unit, burning bright, giving us light and warmth and energy for living. God can be likened to the sun. The Father is likened to the core of the sun--the powerhouse, unseeable, untouchable, incredibly strong, the origin of all energy. The Son is likened to the outer photosphere: visible, the expression of the inner energy of the core, reaching towards all of us (prominences). The Spirit is likened to the solar wind and light escaping the sun: generated from the core, passing through the photosphere, reaching our planet and everything else in the solar system, the carrier and supplier of all the energy and necessary radiation we need.

Remember, though, it IS just a metaphor.

2. Prophets before Jesus came were dealing with false gods and false religions. There were many demon cults claiming to be "gods" and "goddesses", demanding human and sexual sacrifices in order to "guarantee" good fertility on their crops and herds. The people of Isreal had a tendency to go with the "popular" demon cults, and abandon the true worship of God. The demon cults offered fun and debauchery, and opposed very little in the way of "sin"; they were popular because they were inexpensive. God's ways have always been "different", personally expensive, demanding a thourough examination of the heart and the mind.

3. The sign of the cross developed in the first 200 years of Christian faith, probably as a rememberance of the sacrifice that had provided them with the relationship with God. It is only a custom, not a requirement. You won't find it in the Bible.

4. The cross was indeed the instrument of torture and death for Jesus Christ, BUT, He invited all of us to "take up our cross" and individually follow Him. While many people don't understand a cross as anything more than a pretty piece of jewelry, many others see it differently. A cross is a symbol of our self-sacrifice, our own humility, our own willingness to lay down our lives in obedience to God. We use it both to remember the price paid for our souls, and to encourage us to emulate the person who died on it.

5. God created the universe.
6. We just call the Father, "Father" or "Heavenly Father". Jesus was called "the Christ"; it is not a name, but a title. "Christ" means "annointed one" in Greek; it indicated either a king or a high priest, Jesus is both.
7. Mary, the mother of Jesus' physical body, is not a goddess. She was a servant of God with a special job, but still only human.
8. Mary's parents were also only human.

9. Yes, Jesus did all the things regular humans do, with the only exception of sinning. He was born, played, grew, ate, drank, slept, walked, talked, held a job, went to the toilet, bathed, etc. and eventually died. He never married.

10. Why would the living embodiement of God allow other people to abuse Him? THAT is a good question. Most humans won't put up with crap like that; why would God?

Because He had a specific purpose in the willing sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The entire system of Aaronaic priests and Mosaic Law and the sacrifices led up to that point. The point was to remove the stain of sin, which caused us to be separated from a relationship with God. The countless sacrifices of bulls, goats, lambs, and birds could actually do very little. They were a "stand in" or "forerunner" of the perfect sacrifice that was to come. One man, Adam, brought sin to the human race. One man's willing sacrifice, Jesus, would offer a way of redemption. One act of obedience to counter one act of disobedience. That is why
Jesus allowed Himself to be mistreated and killed. His Ressurection 3 days later showed that God had accepted His sacrifice, the innocent for the guilty, and had set up a new "bloodline" for men to join. We can continue in Adam's (which we are born into) or we may accept a spiritual
adoption, paid for by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Answer 10

You should really number your questions if you are going to ask so many. It is way too easy to get lost in the clutter.
1.) One God
2.) One mediator between God and man (Jesus Christ).
God's active force (holy spirit) which reveals the truth of God's word to us.
3.) One God
4.) One God
5.) Churches of false religion
6.) Yes--absolutely
7.) God and Jesus
8.) Jehovah (according to the original King James Psalm 83:18) but probably more accurately Yahweh which would make the more accurate translation of Jesus as Yeshua.
9.) Jesus is not God
10.) Mary and her parents are not Gods
11.) Jesus ate
12.) Jesus slept
13.) Jesus worked as a carpenter prior to his ministry.
14.) Jesus is the son of God, not God but his death as a perfect human replaced Adam's sinful life as our human parent for anyone who wishes to claim it. Because of Adam we all sin and die. Because of Jesus, we can be free from this miserable eventuality. This is the sacred secret of God.

Answer 11

One God, three parts.

God is God the Father, the Spiritual Being that stays in Heaven, God the Son, Jesus, Who came to live with us in the flesh, and Who died for our sins, and God the Holy Spirit, who comes into us when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, to guide us in our daily lives.