What significance is there in the Christian belief of the Trinity?

Question

With all due respect, contrary to the opinion of most people I thoroughly investigated within my mind bearing no actual evidence that supports into the conclusion that Christianity is a polytheistic religion, hey it's just common knowledge way of thinking. To my understanding some Christians believe that Jesus is God in human form while some say he is the son of God therefore equalizing him with the Most High. But the thing I don't understand is why the heck do they call themselves monotheistic when in actual reality they have three forms of God. In a way they are merely insulting the Most High saying that He needs to be in three forms to perform His duties, yet they say He is one God...confusing! I rest my case and may the best answer enlighten me.

Answer 1

True Christians are monotheists because they only worship one Almighty God, who has no peers.

Almighty God Jehovah does require exclusive devotion, it is true.

(Exodus 20:5) I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion


Jehovah God Himself has selected Christ for special privileges and honor. When a human (or angel) honors Jesus the Son (while acknowledging the supremacy of Jehovah the Father), that reasonably is included in one's devotion to Jehovah God. Obedience and respect for Christ is not independent from godly exclusive devotion.

Interestingly, the most common Greek term translated as "worship" in English is used in connection with the appropriate honor shown to a king by a slave (see Matthew 18:26). Clearly, the exalted Messianic King Jesus Christ deserves even greater honor and obeisance than any imperfect human king!


Sadly trinitarians repeatedly misapply scripture while they insist upon worldly philosophy, Greek paganisms, and quotes from other Babylon-loving Trinitarians to support their unscriptural ideas. By contrast, 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

Thanks again for an opportunity to share what the bible actually says about the distinct persons of Jesus Christ the Son and Jehovah God the Father!

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Answer 2

Well the concept of the Trinity, where all three play a part, is not superstitious in effect. Look, does your hands not do something entirely different than your feet; your eyes have an entirely different job than your heart; your ears have an entirely different job than your knees. In the same way, from God the Father we get Grace, from the Son we get Atonement from sins, and from the Holy Spirit we find Righteousness. If God simply said, "I forgive you for your sins" that wouldn't clean us anymore than saying, "Hey all you dirty dishes in the sink, I declare you to be clean" ---- they'd still be dirty and need washed, and Jesus serves as washing our sins. The New Testament is clear that there is God the Father, that Jesus is the Son of God, and that there is a Holy Spirit. It is not firmly written in scripture that you must believe the three are one or whatever, but it is clear that the three are essential. You need God, you need Jesus, and you need the Holy Spirit. "Trinity" is just a Latin word, but the essence of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit cannot be taken away without destroying the message of the New Testament. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are necessary, but the Trinity is not, if that makes sense.

Answer 3

You're right, Christianity is not a polytheistic religion, but the Trinity confuses alot of people. The Catholic Church teaches that there is one God, but Three Persons in that God. It's like a plant- the Godhead is the stem, and the leaves are the Persons in God. So it is appropriate when God says "I am one"- because He is one. The Bible gives us a clue to this in Genesis 1:26- "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness..." He's not talking to the mirror.
Know it's a mystery, but if a religion claims to be able to explain everything about God, it can't be real. We're human, He's Divine, and we can't know Him totally here on earth.

Answer 4

The origin of the trinity was a pagan mandated belief ism of the Roman Emperor Constantine around 300 A.D.He did this in an attempt to make the subjugated nations of Rome accept what was to become the only worship allowed by Rome...Catholicism:(which means"universal).The idea of a three headed God,although common at that time in ancient Babylon(Iraq),Egypt,Greece,Etc. to honor the sun God "TA" was never a belief of the Jews,the Messiah,or the original Christian brotherhood.it was a part of the coming foretold "apostasy"mentioned often in the final books of the Holy Bible by Peter,John,and Jude.

Answer 5

It isn't a polytheistic belief. The Trinity is considered to be One which is God. Like three pieces of a pie. They are all from the same pie.

The Trinity is composed of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. All three are God. That is the significance of the Trinity.

Answer 6

The Christians’ concept of God is the Trinity i.e. The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost, but these three are One.
The word "Trinity" does not exist anywhere in the whole Bible, but it is mentioned in the Glorious Qur’an in the following places

a. In Surah Nisa chapter 4 verse 171 "Say not ‘Trinity’: desist: It will be better for you for Allah is one God." [Al-Qur’an 4:171]

b. A similar message is repeated in Surah Maidah chapter 5 verse 73 "They do blaspheme who say Allah is one of three In a Trinity: for there is No god except One God.If they desist not
From their word (of blasphemy),Verily a grievous penalty
Will befall the blasphemers Among them."[Al-Qur’an 16:125]

Jesus (pbuh) never spoke about Trinity i.e. three in one. On the contrary he says in:

a.The Gospel of Mark ,chapter 12, verse 29 "Shama Israelu Adonai Ila Hayno Adonia Ikhad" It is a Hebrew quotation which means: "Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord."

b.The Gospel of John, chapter 14 verse 28 "My father is greater than I."

c.The Gospel of John, chapter 10 verse 29 "My Father... is greater than all."

d.The Gospel of Mathew, chapter 12, verse 28"… I cast out devils by the Spirit of God…."

e.The Gospel of Luke, chapter 11 verse 20"…I with the finger of God cast out devils…."

f.The Gospel of John, chapter 5 verse 30 "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgement is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me."

Answer 7

in Christianity, it is the biggest term of the Christological doctrine formulated on the 1st ecumenical council, at Nicaea in 325, to verify that God the Son and God the daddy are of a similar religious substance.

Answer 8

Its a myth. Echad in Hebrew, as I said before means ONE. Its is SINGULAR, not plural. It refers to God, and God alone. Jesus is NOT God, the 'holy spirit' is not God. We are ALL children of God. All sons and daughters of God. Jesus does not have the monopoly on that claim.

Answer 9

Read John 14:1-31
Jesus said, "If you really knew Me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him."

Answer 10

The Christian concept of the Trinity once seemed strange, perhaps even contrived, to me. How could something be three things that are one and one thing that is three? But the Trinity made sense to me once I came to believe in God, to recognize Him in Jesus Christ and to know the part of Him within me. My understanding of the Trinity, and belief in its truth, grew as I came to see that the universe itself reflects the three-in-one nature of the God who created it.
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