Does this mean Christianity is a polytheistic religion?
2007-02-10 02:40:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's one of the strongest arguments to prove that Islam was brought to correct the Christians.
2007-02-10 02:45:05 · answer #1 · answered by Abdeali k 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
The Christian idea of a trinity contradicts the most basic tenet of Judaism - that G-d is One. Jews have declared their belief in a single unified G-d twice daily ever since the giving of the Torah at Sinai - almost two thousand years before Christianity.
The trinity suggests a three part deity: The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost (Matthew 28:19).
Contrast this to the Shema, the basis of Jewish belief: "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is ONE" (Deut. 6:4). Jews declare the Shema every day, while writing it on doorposts (Mezuzah), and binding it to the hand and head (Tefillin). This statement of God's One-ness is the first words a Jewish child is taught to say, and the last words uttered before a Jew dies.
In Jewish law, worship of a three-part god is considered idolatry; one of the three cardinal sins for which a person should rather give up his life than transgress. The idea of the trinity is absolutely incompatible with Judaism.
However, a trinity or triple god is very prevalent in paganism.
The aspects are Youth, Father, Sage.. this is actually where the christian trinity has its foundations. It is a pagan belief and not a jewish belief. If their Messiah is the Jewish messiah, he cannot be part of a trinity.
2007-02-10 10:52:59 · answer #2 · answered by Kallan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't polytheistic religions believe that a person can worship many deities. Jesus Christ taught that the greatest commandment is to "Love the Lord your God"(with your whole heart, soul, mind and strength ) Luke10:27, in agreement with the commandment of the Mosaic Law in Exodus 20:1-6. Jesus always prayed to and gave his worship and honor to his Heavenly Father by saying, "The Father is greater than I" John 14:28 and he (Christ) "Cannot do a single thing of my own initiative". John 5:19. Before ascending to the heavens he said to his disciples "I am ascending to my Father and my God and your Father and your God".John 20:17. How on earth could one make the 'Christianity that Jesus taught' into a polytheistic religion!
2007-02-10 11:55:40 · answer #3 · answered by mc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The son idea can very well be figurative and still retain some sort of monotheism
Its not that that is against the ten commandments...
its the belief that he actually died for your sins...for christians equate Jesus with God..youre basically saying: that God the omnipotent the limitless the endless, the one who cannot die given any circumstance...chose to come down as a human form and not only that...but die...for your sins.
Nothing could be against the concept of an omnipotent God.
2007-02-10 10:50:27 · answer #4 · answered by Antares 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to Christianity Jesus is the son of God, but at the same time he's God himself, along with the holy spirit, it's called the holy trinity, three different parts of the same God. Of course the 10 commandements wree written thousands of years before Jesus was born, and Jesus himself never said he was God, he said he had been sent by God to save humanity, after he died some belived he was a regular man, others that he was the son of God, most christian beliefs were only normalised when chistianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and at that time there were lots of different beliefs concerning Jesus and his message, there was a council, the council of Nicea, to decide which ones were to be adopted in the "new" religion.
2007-02-10 10:49:13 · answer #5 · answered by chato_mc 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, and it is not polytheistic either.
As far as I know, the Fathers of the Church referred to the mystery of the Holy Trinity using an analogy: God is at the same time God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, the same way as a brick, for instance, can be regarded as earth, water and warmth. More details can be found in the Patristic writings.
2007-02-10 11:03:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No there is only one God Jesus is a part of the trinity which is one ,The Father , The Son , The Holy Spirit.
2007-02-10 10:47:32 · answer #7 · answered by jack lewis 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Christianity is not polytheistic
ill try to explain as best as i can
God it three persons yet the same person(i know confusing) He is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
i know its confusing but hang on ill use an example
for example an apple has three parts but it is only one apple
the apple is the peel, it is the juicy and tasty part, and it is the core
the core is the apple but not the juicy part and so forth
God the Father is not God the Son; but he is true God, and so on and so forth
it is hard to understand with our simple human minds but christains believe by faith that God is three yet one
hope i could help you
2007-02-10 10:48:12 · answer #8 · answered by unirider0909 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No Jesus is one with God or God's guft of salvation the term son was used as Jesus had no earthly father and a son is a continuation of the father.
2007-02-10 10:45:14 · answer #9 · answered by Mim 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes. And it didn't go over too well with the local scribes, priests, etc. either. And when they heard he was running around the hills forgiving people left and right, he had to go!
Seriously, he had a good argument with the learned men, after he healed a blind man. The blind man said he didn't care who the guy was, or what he believed, he could see!
2007-02-10 10:53:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, the ten commandments have been done away with.
Jesus has triumphed over his half-cousin Satan, and the ten commandments are no longer needed. Now the commandment is: Love Jesus and shout hallelujah.
2007-02-10 10:49:38 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋