What percentage of those in Christendom fully understand and believe in the Trinity Doctrine?

Question

In my daily travels and contact with people in my taxi cab, religion is one of the subjects often brought up, especially when we have a religious conference in town. I've frequently asked about the Trinity Doctrine, especially of those attending a national conference like the Baptists. The standard answer is it is beyond our ability to understand, or can only be fully understood by those with significant Bible College Education. Why is that?

Answer 1

It's not beyond our ability to understand. God has written a love letter to you personally. This verse is in it:

1Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.


The Father, the Spirit (capital "S") and Jesus are all mentioned in this verse. There are others. Look them up.

Answer 2

Most "Churches" -- meaning denominations of Christianity are founded on the concept of the Trinity. Unfortunately very few, even among the clergy, are well-educated about the trinity.

I think, that overall, Churches do a lousy job of educating their membership. It is a busy world, and no one wants to send their kids to sunday school and Summer Bible school anymore......I can appreciate that. But even if they did, the education they would receive would amount to colouring happy pictures about Jesus' life.

Churches need to make better use of the time they have with children and adults in an educational manner. Christians already have sufficient faith, or they wouldn't be in the congregation.

I guess I'm saying more "quality time" instead of a greater "quantity" of time is what is needed.

Saying that one can only understand the Trinity through formal Bible college education is elitist, and the sort of sentiment that, ultimately, caused the schism between the Roman Church, and the protestants, during the reformation. They really don't want to go there.

The uneducated of this world are self-evident. They go about saying things like "Jesus Christ God of the Universe"....because they have no real understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity.

I, myself am a Buddhist, but it is my wish that everyone find happiness with the religion they have chosen.

Answer 3

this is how I understand it, although i will use some terms that aren't exactly correct.

Before time (Hard concept to understand) God the father was. he just was and always was. He contemplated the only thing there was to contemplate- himself.

God's word becomes real- he spoke the world into existence, or more precisely, thought it into exestence. So when God (father) contemplated himself, the Son came into being. He is the father (sort of) and since the essence of God is love and the son was a wonderful and magnificent as the father, the father loved the son. The son loved the father back for the same reason. The bond of love between the two of them is so strong that it is it's it's own person. It could not, however, exist with out the father and son, and the son could not exist without the father, and the father could not NOT create the son. Now here's the tricky part. it wasn't a sequence of events like I just wrote, it always was.

Answer 4

the trinity cannot be understood by most people not because of lacking Bible knowledge because the Bible does not teach it, the word trinity does not exist in the Bible at all, neither is it explained anywhere, which if it were true would be explained so that people should be able to understand this concept especially this being the central doctrine in most religions But since it is not a Bible teaching it is no wonder then that it is not understood, the trinity is not taught in the Bible Jesus' disciples did not believe the trinity nor did they teach it, you would expect them to do so, if, they believed in it,the trinity was not even thought of before the 3rd century of our common era!

Answer 5

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
It's like members of one Church believe that THEY are the only ones who have the "in" with God, and all other Churches don't.

The Holy Trinity CAN be understood. God does NOT limit who can understand Him. Of course, we can't know ALL things, and some items will forever be a mystery, but to make such a blanket statement as "can only be fully understood by those with significant Bible College Education" is silly; is almost with an aire of rudeness.

Yes, an education, upper education of any kind does help the scholar to understand things more fully, but to infer that a specific route is needed, is required is unfair. Anyone with a humble heart can open up the Bible and say a little prayer to God to please open his mind, bring about the Holy Spirit, to help understand God little more. God will share with you many things, and you will come to understand His ways, His wisdom, and His love.

Don't let the over-ethusiastic Bible following crowd members discourage or dissuade you from picking up the Bible and learning (by the grace of the Holy Spirit) what God is all about, and how we came to be; why we are here in the first place. Sometimes, we Christians get a little too wrapped up in our own ways and forget the path that God teaches us to walk.

There was a female missionary back in the 1930's who went before her Church council and asked to be sent to China to do missionary work. They turned her down through a multitude of excuses, one of which was her lack of formal education in the Bible. She was persistant, and found a means to get there, and the rest is history. Her name was Gladys Aylward, and they made a movie about her life, starring Ingrid Bergman called "The Inn of the 6th Happiness". Check it out!

Peace to you, Brother!

Answer 6

The doctrine of the Trinity became no longer relatively more suitable till the Arian controversy of the fourth century added the conflict of interpretations into concentration. The writers of the hot testomony (relatively Paul and John) for sure regard Jesus by using fact the Son of God and help his deity, yet precisely how that labored became no longer spelled out till there became a substantial conflict over the various perspectives. That, of direction, is the way issues artwork: no one could have even understood the underlying themes of the Protestant Reformation on the time of the schism of 1054. the ingredient it relatively is toughest to describe (and not in simple terms to non-Christians or non-orthodox Christians, yet to much less-knowledgeable orthodox believers besides) is that we don't think in multiple gods. yet there is an argument requiring rationalization: we even have faith that God became walking around in the international in the 1st century, publicly praying to a God he suggested as "Father" (nonetheless "Daddy" could in all probability be a extra useful translation of the observe he used), and coaching others to do likewise. This one God in whom we've faith has grow to be take place to us in diverse persons, maximum acceptable to an outline which might make no experience if we've been talking approximately a standard individual. yet who says that God is limited in the comparable way as ordinary human beings? The writers of the hot testomony left alerts of their perspectives, yet they weren't writing to explicate this doctrine, and in actuality the folk who did so have been fourth-century Cappadocian bishops and theologians. (They have been Basil the large of Caesarea, his brother Gregory of Nyssa, and their chum Gregory of Nazianzus.) And specific, the consequence became a much extra sure chop up between Christians and Jews. This became surely no longer helped by making use of the very incontrovertible fact that Christians more suitable the prepare of pogroms against Jews and pagans appropriate to the comparable time.

Answer 7

0% - Because the trinity doctrine makes no sense.

1+1+1=1?

It's just as illogical as every other theological concept, so people have to talk about it in vauge mystic terms to be able to convince themselves that it actually means something. If they put it simply and clearly even they can't make sense of it, so they need to go to a bible college where they learn lots of buzzwords that they don't understand to be able to describe a concept they don't understand, but feel better about doing so because they can assume it all makes sense to someone else or in some other way.

Answer 8

The doctrine of the Trinity is a human attempt to interpret/understand the divine. We have limited Bible passages to work with.
It is akin to your spare tire understanding the dynamics of internal combustion which allows it to travel all over the place without moving from its place in your trunk.
Its the best we can do.

Answer 9

10 to 15% of people who identify themselves as Christian will not be able to speak for more than 45 seconds after they tell you what they are. It is social Identity and a orientated identity..not a study and argue and identify identity. SEE??

Answer 10

My family and friends do. We have all levels of education. Anyone who reads the Bible can understand it.

Matthew 28:19, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name (authority) of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:"